WRIGHT-PATTERSON AFB, Ohio, May 6 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- The U.S. Air Force retired the last Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT) C-141 StarLifter airlifter to the National ...
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 ...
I don't know why I was so sad. I guess the retirement of an old friend does that to you sometimes. Bittersweet would be my feelings predicted my managing editor before I left on the assignment to ...
The last two active-duty C-141B Starlifter transport aircraft will be retired Sept. 16 at McGuire Air Force Base, N.J., the Air Force said Sept. 15. But the Air Force Reserve Command will keep flying ...
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 ...
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 ...
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.
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 ...
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 ...