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Lockheed C-141 Starlifter
It has been called the most massive and ambitious airlift operation in human history. During the Gulf War in 1991, a sky-darkening fleet of gigantic cargo aircraft of the 437th Military Airlift Wing ...
Recently, I was introduced to the Museum of Aviation’s C-141C. Learning the history of this plane gave me a whole new appreciation for the word “workhorse.” The C-141 aircraft was a cargo and troop ...
A group of dedicated volunteers spent the month of October restoring and affixing newly acquired wing parts to the C-141B “Starlifter” at the Marietta Museum of History’s Aviation Wing. Visitors can ...
On display at the National Museum of the U.S. Air Force in Dayton, Ohio are many notable aircraft including Air Force VC-137C SAM 26000 “Air Force One,” which brought President John F. Kennedy’s body ...
The last two C-141 Starlifter transports in the U.S. Air Force inventory were retired last week from the 305th Air Mobility Wing at McGuire AFB, N.J. The Lockheed-built aircraft entered service in ...
Editor’s note: The author served in the Air Force from 1972-1978 as a Military Airlift Command pilot (Now Air Mobility Command) flying the four-engine C-141 Starlifter. He wrote this story in 1994 for ...
Generally speaking, when one thinks of a telescope one imagines either huge dishes installed on the ground, at high altitude, or immense mirrors placed in key points in orbit around the planet. But ...
MARIETTA — A bench dedicated to the people that flew, built and maintained the C-141 Starlifter was unveiled at the Aviation History and Technology Center on Saturday.
A silver C-141 Starlifter transport last week whistled to a stop at Rhein-Main airbase near Frankfurt. Out of it filed a 65-man U.S. Army unit, the advance party for one of the largest troop airlifts ...
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March 23, 1994, an F-16D Falcon fighter jet collided with a C-130 Hercules transport plane while both were trying to land at the base. The fighter slid into a parked C-141 Starlifter cargo plane and ...
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