XC-99 gets a new motor

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The one and only XC-99 decided to break at MacDill AFB in the late 40’s, and, as the photos illustrate, it took all hands to get the thing back in the air. A B-29 (44-62023) of MacDill’s 307th Bomb Wing is dwarfed by the broken down brute XC-99.

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