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

[Shay]

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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Last edited by Shay on Sun May 07, 2006 11:19 am, edited 1 time in total.

[APG85]

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

[TimAPNY]

Wow, another a/c gone from the sky's It will be missed.

Tim

[B-29 Super Fort]

Where is it headed to, Davis-Monthan?

[TimAPNY]

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

Tim

[Broken-Wrench]

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]

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

[Mike]

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

Seen here though the heat haze last week.

[Aircraft Mech Paul]

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]

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]

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

[Shay]

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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Last edited by Shay on Mon May 08, 2006 7:06 am, edited 1 time in total.

[bdk]

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]

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]

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