It carries a wide array of ground attack weapons that are integrated with sophisticated sensors, navigation, and firecontrol systems. Dedicated to all who maintained, flew, and supported ac119g shadow and ac119k stinger gunships during the vietnam war. What it was really like to fly combat helicopters in vietnam kindle edition by garrison, mark. He wrote three autobiographical books about his life and military experience.
What it was really like to fly combat helicopters in vietnam. Contemporary historical evaluation of combat operations. The first flying boxcar was designated the xc82b, and looked like a c119. Declassified contemporary historical examination of current operations checo reports. Ac 119s and gunship historical information ac119 gunship. There have been a number of books written about gunship operations, but never specifically on the ac119 series.
Download it once and read it on your kindle device, pc, phones or tablets. Unlike other modern military fixedwing aircraft, the ac relies on visual targeting. The lockheed ac gunship is a heavily armed, longendurance, groundattack variant of the c hercules transport, fixedwing aircraft. On that mission, a 37 mm round hit their gunship in the right horizontal stabilizer. After alex westaway and dan haighs other musical act, fightstar, went on hiatus in 2010, westaway and haigh decided to focus on other musical ventures, including forming gunship. Nicknamed the truck killer, the ac119k gunship and its counterpart, the. And that is a short story of how and when the ac119 was born. In february 1968, under the usaf program project gunship iii, 26 c 119gs were. Ac119 gunship association preserving history of all who flew. Flying boxcar, from the book fairchild aircraft 19261987 by kent a. These gunships were configured to circle the target instead of performing strafing runs. A gunship is a military aircraft armed with heavy guns, primarily intended for attacking ground targets in modern usage the term gunship refers to fixedwing aircraft having laterallymounted heavy armaments i. It was designed to provide more firepower than light and medium groundattack aircraft in certain situations when ground forces called for close air support. The douglas ac47 spooky also nicknamed puff, the magic dragon was the first in a series of fixed wing gunships developed by the united states air force during the vietnam war.