Douglas C-54 Skymaster

A procedural model built in Blender from the type’s published dimensions, painted as Douglas C-54E Skymaster 44-9144 (c/n 27370, civil N500EJ), ‘Spirit of Freedom’, the flying Berlin Airlift memorial of the Berlin Airlift Historical Foundation, as flown from the 2000s until a tornado wrecked it at Walterboro, South Carolina, in April 2020: a four-engined military transport with a long circular-section fuselage, four Pratt & Whitney R-2000 Twin Wasp radials driving three-bladed propellers, a low wing spanning 35.8 m, a single tall fin and a tricycle undercarriage, shown level on its wheels with the cargo door closed: natural metal overall with black de-icing boots on the wing, tailplane and fin leading edges, a black anti-glare panel on the nose, a red ‘Z’ cheatline with ‘SPIRIT OF FREEDOM’ and small national flags above it, the round Berlin Airlift badge below the cockpit, the star and bar on both sides of the rear fuselage and above the port wing, two red bands with ‘DOUGLAS C54-R5D’ and ‘BERLIN AIRLIFT’ on the fin, and black propeller blades with yellow tips (shape from the US Air Force manual’s C-54D three-view scaled to the published span and length, checked against a second three-view and photographs of this aircraft). Drag to orbit, scroll or pinch to zoom · all 352 models · download .glb (2.2 MB) · Plate 170 in The Hangar