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NASA Put Their Only C-141 Up For Sale But No One Bought It
Earlier this year, NASA quietly put their derelict Lockheed C-141 up for sale on a GSA Auction website. The aircraft wasn’t just your average Starlifter. It was a specially modified…
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“Hanoi Taxi”–The Ultimate Freedom Bird Was A Very Special C-141 Starlifter
Operation Homecoming returned POWs from North Vietnam. Tail number 66-0177 held a unique place in the hearts of wartime heroes, aircrew, entertainers and avgeeks. On March 12th 1998, a United…
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The C-141 Starlifter That Had A Mission To Catch The Space Shuttle
When two space-age technologies come together…almost (The KAO and the Space Shuttle) The best, deep-space optical observatories are mounted high in tall mountains. This to avoid the light distortion caused…
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