Fairchild C-123 PROVIDER – Wikipedia

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Fairchild C-123 Provider
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A USF C-123 in 1966.

Description
Type military transport plane
Crew 4
Manufacturer Stati UnitiChase Aircraft
Stati UnitiFairchild Aircraft
First flight date October 14, 1949
Date entry into service 1 September 1954
Main user Stati UnitiUSAF
Other users Stati UnitiUSCG
Specimens 307 [first]
Other variants Stroukoff YC-134
Dimensions and weights

Perspective tables

Length 23,25 m (76 ft 3 in)
Wingspan 33,53 m (110 ft 0 in)
Height 10,39 m (34 ft 1 in)
Wing surface 113,62 m² (1 223 ft²)
Empty weight 16 042 kg (35 366 lb)
Max weight on take -off 27 215 kg (60 000 lb)
Capacity 60 soldiers, 50 lettighe or 11 000 kg (24 000 lb)
Propulsion
Motor 2 radiali Pratt & Whitney R-2800-99W
2 turbogetto General Electric J85-GE-17
Power 2 500 HP (1 865 kW) each
Push 2 850 lbf (12.7 kn) each
Performance
Max speed 367 km/h (228 mph, 198 kt) a 3 050 m (10 000 ft)
Stall 152 km/h (95 mph, 83 kt)
Cruise speed 278 km/h (173 mph, 150 kt)
Uphill speed 6,2 m/s (1 220 ft/min) “One engine failed”
Autonomy 5 280 km (3 280 mi, 2,852 NMI) (Max)
Action range 1 666 km (1 035 MI, 899 nmi) at the maximum charge
Tangence 6 430 m (21 100 ft) “OEO”
Note data referring to the C-123k Provider version

The data are extracted from:
The Observer’s Book of Basic Aircraft: Military (dimensions) [2]
Jane’s All The World’s Aircraft 1969-70 (weights and performance) [3]

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The Fairchild C-123 Provider He was a high -wing tactical transport twistor mainly produced by the US company Fairchild Aircraft during the 1950s and 1960s.

Used mainly by the United States Air Force (USAF) during the Vietnam War remained in service even after the conflict in various world military aeronautics.

The C-123 was initially thought with the name of MS-AVITRUC (“Air Truck”) by the C.A.C., specialized in assault and transport. The name was soon changed to XC-123 , and from here the vehicle took off for the first time in October 1949. But another three years passed, many for the time, before the USAF took it into consideration as a light transport airplane and ordered 5 specimens.

But the inability of the original company to quickly satisfy this order passed the Faircled project, which at the end of 1953 assumed the command of the program. At the end of a development phase, which saw the elongation of the tail with a large dorsal fin, the C-123 finally flew in its definitive form in 1954.

The new plane was ordered in 302 specimens intended for the CT (Tactical Air Command).

A C-123 Relauling USCG Provider
A C-123K

The C-123, in its typical version C-123B , it was a tactical transport plane, with a structure that was taken for a long time as a model for subsequent tactical planes. The structure was in light alloy, the wings were with high stretching, of simple structure, with a rectangular plan even if with a slight corner both incoming and outgoing. The wings were placed in a high position on the fuselage door, which was characterized by a muzzle and a long tail, with the fuselage markedly raised in the rear sector. This ended with a horizontal tail surface, and a vertical one, tall and with a long attack edge to improve stability.

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The load compartment could carry 7.2 tons and could transport both personal and heavy materials, thanks to the rear load ramp.

The engines, the main difference compared to the floors that were the specialty of the C.A.C., were two radials from 2500 horsepower Pratt & Whitney R-2800, equipped with a variable-paced triple metal propeller.

The C-123 were the absolutely typical planes of the Vietnam War, where they gave their best. Their tasks were that of tactical transport, for which their simplicity and robustness were appreciated skills. On the other hand, radial engines did not give a good weight power ratio (5000 horsepower against 28 tons) and the problem was solved thanks to the 2500 kg of thrust of the two turbogets; But this was only an intermediate passage towards the real solution, the adoption of turboelic engines.

In Vietnam also operated the UC-123K version, armed with the AGENT Orange defolishing to the dioxin with which entire forests were devastated to remove “coverage” to the Vietcong. Currently, forests and populations are still paying the effect of the thousands of tons of these toxic products then used for war purposes.

During the war the thousands of flight hours soon reduced the useful life of the C-123b, and so few specimens were still operational at the end of the same. Some, however, were still on duty with some departments of the Air Force Reserve in the early eighties.

The C-123 were also used for other tasks: some, like all the other tactical transport of the war (including the Vietnamese An-2) were armed with the functions of a flying gunner, but very little is known of them. Others were the NC-123K, equipped with radar, TV sensors and more to try to find the enemy during night movements.

Many of the versions studied did not follow, it is but it is still interesting to mention them:

  • YC-123D : version equipped with a limit length blowing system, which improved stol performance
  • YC-123E : equipped with floating fuselage to be used as a sort of seaplane
  • YC-123H : equipped with special tires, large carriageway trolley, two J85 auxiliary turbogets under the wings
  • C-123K : 180 specimens were equipped with two J85 Upper Sablade auxiliary turbogets and improvements to the plant engineering. Often they were also equipped with auxiliary tanks under the wing.
  • C-123J : even equipped with six auxiliary reactors, designed to operate in arctic climates, with very high performance of short take -off and landing
  • UC-123K : equipped with sprayers for deflective agents
  • N-123K : equipped with sensors for night surveillance

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Arabia Saudita Saudi Arabia
Brasile Brazil
2 specimens resold to the Varig airline
Cambogia Cambogia
Corea del Sud South Korea
El Salvador The savior
Filippine Philippines
Laos Laos
Taiwan Taiwan
Thailandia Thailand
Stati Uniti United States
Venezuela Venezuela
Vietnam del Sud Vietnam of Sud
Italia Italy
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