Last Flight for the C-141 Hanoi Taxi (Now with more PICS)

Shay · **Posted:** Sat May 06, 2006 9:49 am

Just got back from the landing. I'm planning on going back in little bit to see if they openned the aircraft up for the public. There are supposed to. It was a great sight and awesome realizing that this was the last time to hear a Starlifter's engines. Bonus's were a F-16 missing man foramtion fly over and a C-17 Fly-by. Will post more pictures later tonight unitl then here's a couple.

Shay
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APG85 · **Posted:** Sat May 06, 2006 1:03 pm

What a great airlifter! The Air Force got it's money's worth.......

TimAPNY · **Posted:** Sat May 06, 2006 3:48 pm

Wow, another a/c gone from the sky's

It will be missed.

Tim

B-29 Super Fort · **Joined:** Wed Sep 01, 2004 11:12 am **Posts:** 871

Where is it headed to, Davis-Monthan?

TimAPNY · **Posted:** Sat May 06, 2006 4:01 pm

The USAF Museum or what ever they call themselves now in Ohio.

Tim

Broken-Wrench · **Joined:** Sun Oct 24, 2004 12:37 pm **Posts:** 1197

TimApNy wrote:

Wow, another a/c gone from the sky's

It will be missed.

Tim

I worked on them as a Air Reserve Tecnician and they were maintenance pigs. I lost alot of saturdays and sundays working on the engines. It was enough to make me go back to college! No Tears Here!

bdk · **Joined:** Sun May 02, 2004 1:16 am **Posts:** 11324

United Airlines overhauls the C-17's engines. Same as found on a 767.

Mike · **Joined:** Tue May 04, 2004 8:54 am **Posts:** 3331

Does anyone know if the NASA NC-141 at Moffett is still active?

Seen here though the heat haze last week.

Aircraft Mech Paul · **Posted:** Sun May 07, 2006 8:42 am

bdk wrote:

United Airlines overhauls the C-17's engines. Same as found on a 767.

Hi there,

with respect....the 767's and C-17's do not share common engine types. The C-17 has engine much more common to the 757 which have PWA 2000 series engines. Was told this by one of the ground personnel from a C-17 at Oshkosh several years ago. If you'd like...take a Google search for a JT9 Engine for a B-767 and then look for a PWA 2037, or PWA 2040 for a B-757. You'll see quite a size difference. The easiest way to tell is that there is no "spigot" extending out of the exhaust nozzle on the C-17 engines. Where the 767's that have Pratt JT9-7R4 engines do.

Respectfully,

Paul

Shay · **Posted:** Sun May 07, 2006 11:18 am

Alright well I finally uploaded the rest of the C-141 Pictures. I went over to the Restorartion facitity but it was all buttoned up.

http://s50.photobucket.com/albums/f321/ChimChim3/C-141/

Shay
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APG85 · **Posted:** Sun May 07, 2006 11:54 am

Great pictures! It's neat that they painted her in the "old school" paint scheme.....

Shay · **Posted:** Sun May 07, 2006 7:42 pm

Mike wrote:

Does anyone know if the NASA NC-141 at Moffett is still active?

Mike

My understanding from http://www.c141heaven.com is that 714 (NASA's C-141) last flew and was decomissioned in 1995.

Shay
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bdk · **Joined:** Sun May 02, 2004 1:16 am **Posts:** 11324

Aircraft Mech Paul wrote:

with respect....the 767's and C-17's do not share common engine types. The C-17 has engine much more common to the 757 which have PWA 2000 series engines.

My mistake- you are correct, I meant 757. Please excuse my fat fingers. The overhauls are still done by United, although they do have to segregate the military components from the commercial. The engine plug is also C-17 specific by the way due to the directed flow core reverser.

Broken-Wrench · **Joined:** Sun Oct 24, 2004 12:37 pm **Posts:** 1197

United has been in alot of trouble working on them also! bogusing up maintenance records. I can't remember the detail it's been a while but that much I remember.

tom d. friedman · **Posted:** Mon May 08, 2006 8:57 pm

i have c-141 flight manual.......... it's hefty........ weighs a ton!!

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