C-82 Packet was a twin-engine, twin-boom cargo aircraft designed and built by Fairchild Aircraft.
The versatile Fairchild C-82 "Packet" added another job to its lengthy list of Air Force accomplishments recently when technicians of the Ninth Air Force at Lawson Air Force Base, Georgia, successfully laid telephone wire in flight for the first time from the twin-engine Packet. In the past smaller types of aircraft have been employed for this operation. The technique of wire-laying from the C-82 made its debut before students and observers at "Operation Combine II", air-ground exercise presented by the Tactical Air Command's Ninth Air Force at Lawson Air Force Base, Fort Benning, Georgia, during March 1948. The C-82 Packet was a twin-engine, twin-boom cargo aircraft designed and built by Fairchild Aircraft. It was used briefly by the United States Army Air Forces and United States Navy following World War II. USAF
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