Italian Job Plane??

[concordski]

Does anyone know what the chinese aeroplane at Turin Airport which transports the gold to italy in the original (1969) Italian Job?

Picture:


I wonder if anyone would design it for me as well?!?

Cheers

[Hagar]

According to this it's a Douglas C-74 Globemaster. http://www.air-and-space.com/Douglas%20C-74.htm
Same photo too.

[Nexus]

Perhaps the "grandfather" of the C17 Globemaster III?  :)  ???
I know McDonnell-Douglas designed the Globemaster III, but is now being produced by Boeing ofcourse

[Felix/FFDS]

[quote]Perhaps the "grandfather" of the C17 Globemaster III?

[concordski]

According to this it's a Douglas C-74 Globemaster. http://www.air-and-space.com/Douglas%20C-74.htm
Same photo too.

Oh, I was hoping that'd be some chinese manufactured russian aircraft, oh well.
thanks,
Concordski

[Bubblehead]

Looks to me like it was an original Ruskie design aircraft based on the nose and cockpit configuration.

Bubblehead

[Hagar]

Looks to me like it was an original Ruskie design aircraft based on the nose and cockpit configuration.

Bubblehead

That might have more to do with the paint scheme than anything else. Looks pretty American to me & a natural development of the DC-6 series. According to the article from my link it was originally ordered by Pan Am under the civil designation DC-7 but the order was cancelled in late 1945.

[Bubblehead]

Except for the tail section, it does look like the old DC-6/7 series. I flew on an DC-6 from North Island, San Diego to Atsugi, Japan with a stopover at Midway back in the late fifties. It was like a riding in an old stagecoach.

Bubblehead