I have flown from Mildenhall England, to the U.S. on a C5 Skymaster. Big cargo planes, designed to carry big items, such as helicopters, trucks, large quanities of troops, etc. They have a huge hull, at the top of which is appended a little area in which about 30 passengers can be contained. The C5 I flew had come from Berlin, stopped in Mildenhall to pick a few people up, then took off again. I do not know if it refueled, but it made the flight to US nonstop. >>> Timothy P Redman <[log in to unmask]> 03/17 8:17 AM >>> The trip was not non-stop, but went all over Europe, then, I believe to the Azores, then the Bahamas (or Bermuda? I'd have to check my archive) before coming to land in Washington. Tim Redman On Tue, 16 Mar 1999 19:25:00 +0100 Alexander Schmitz <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > Martin - > > no USAF officer, but a West Berlin child of the great Berlin Airlift of 1948-49 > und thus a life long aviation & US lover: > > a C54 Skymaster wdn't have had the necessary range. I'm pretty sure that at that > time there were only one or two types of aircraft really capable of doing the > atlantic non-stop, early versions of the Lockheed Conny (L149) or much more > likely the Boeing B337 ("Stratocruiser" I think that ship's name was. Somehow > THAT sounds familiar to me in EP context. Maybe that either Cornell or Carpenter > have details about it in their books or it was in the EP film "American Odyssey" > where Mary tells about how enormously excited EP was on this his very first > flight. I cd check but have no time right now. Maybe you can or let me know so I > wd go at it in a couple of days > > BTW, I'd enjoy to talk aviation with you or yr son. > > alex Tim Redman School of Arts and Humanities, JO 31 University of Texas at Dallas P.O. Box 830688 Richardson, TX 75083-0688 (972) 883-2775 (o) (972) 883-2989 (fax)