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Very much appreciate this video. It’s 2024 and now just getting around to watching these videos of my mighty 141. Don’t remember seeing Air Force Reserve prominently painted on the jet back then. Maybe it was done when entering the museum. I was in the 729th MAS, one of the 3 squadrons in the 445th. Col Eugene Fortson was the Wing Commander around ‘81….I vaguely recall!! Excellent job on this video.

I was flight nurse on this airplane and my husband was a 141 pilot

The unmistakable song of the Starlifter. I remember it to this day.

I just want to make a quick and put those blue seats or in the front or what they put on the plane when they're carrying a lot of troops a long distance because we're old in those seats coming back from the Sinai Peninsula back to Fort Bragg. And he is correct about the first palette that comes in with the meals and the latrine because we had one of those on the plane as well. That was back in the late 1980s. I really enjoyed this video I really enjoyed listening to this guy talk about the Nostalgia of this airplane it really took me back as well, thank you sir for your service. I also made my first night jump out of one of these aircraft in Fort Benning Georgia the summer of 1985.

Thanks for the tour. I also worked on 88. I am sure our paths crossed sometime while at Travis. Was there 70-73 worked out of 60th AMS Radar.

The last time I flew on a 141 the #2 engine caught on fire and we had to emergency return to McGuire...great times on that plane...we lost 21 aircraft during the program. 284 built..

Sounds like Lonie was stationed at Travis....how tragic...LOL,!

Great vid! I was crew chief on them at Charleston 437OMS, 77-81. Learned a LOT. And things have changed a lot since then. I'm an aircraft inspector now. Trimming the throttles on them TF33's was a chore. Now everybody runs FADECs. Piece a cake. I remember when they took the navigators out and replaced them with a little black box called the Inertial Navigation system. Hit the press to test button and it said, "glide slope glide slope pull up pull up".

Awesome walk-around. As a pilot, I flew the B models at McChord AFB in the '90's. I do believe you have the fuel totals wrong though. You mentioned 252,252# but I recall the total was much less, at 153,352#. Primarily our max wartime GW was 345,000#.

There wouldn't be an Air Force without the crew chiefs. Thanks for posting this.

Went from Fort Carson, Colorado to Yokota Japan then on to Da Nang South Viet Nam in 1968 with the 5th (Mechanized) Infantry in a Starlifter.

My grandpa was a navigator on a c141 during Vietnam. I was looking for videos on it and I realized how much of an amazing plane it was. Sticking around even after the maximum flight hours allowed on the airframe. Thank you for your service.

Hello from a Bookie driver who was there on Charlie Row with you.

I was a 42152 hydraulic specialist working on C141’s at Dover AFB. Flits controls landing gear and also brakes. This was from 66 to 70. We also had C 124’s and C133’s we had to hold together as well any bird that came thru transient. A lot of the transients were C130 Herkybirds that had the same type of hydraulic systems as the C141’s. It was a dirty job but I enjoyed it still have a T shirt with pink stain from the 5606 hydraulic fluid. My wife hated having to get those pink stains out😂

My late father was a Loadmaster on the c-141 with the 18th out of McGuire from 1974-1979. Remember going on them as a kid at the air shows and he knew everything. Been on this plane a few years back at the museum.

I had one ride on a 141...from Thule in 1968 to Mcguire in NJ...just an AF auto mechanic...it was a new plane at the time and impressive...

Awesome!... I seen them here in NZ... thanks from NZ 👍🇳🇿

My neighbor piloted a 141 out of Travis back in the day. The 141 has a very distinctive sound. It sounds like a grinding whine. It is a beautiful aircraft.

All were built in Marietta Georgia by the Lockheed-Georgia Company in the 1960's.

They should have never retired these aircraft. My experience with the C-141 was being on the load team during unit deployments at Mountain Home AFB, ID. I did save a a C-141 from hitting a lightning cart at Kunsan AFB in 1988. I saw the aircraft coming down the taxiway toward the EOR shack I was in and noticed that they had left the lighting cart on the side of the taxiway. The taxiways at the kun were narrow and the 141’s # 2 engine was heading straight for the cart. I ran down the taxiway toward the Acft and got them to stop. They first thought I had lost my mind by the looks they were giving me, but one of the crew members came out of the aircraft saw what I was pointing at and helped me push the cart out of the way, I had to run a good way toward the aircraft holding up the marshaling stop sign and thank god they stopped. I didn’t get a medal or anything for this, I was concerned for the crew and passengers and the aircraft. I was just doing what I was taught in the Air Force about Safety and protection of valuable assets both human and equipment. This was instilled in my by the crew chiefs who trained me on the F-111’s at Mountain Home. To all the veteran crew chiefs who helped get us young crew chiefs ready to maintain our aircraft, Thank You. Not just for your service but for making sure we were properly trained and ready to serve our country. I heard many stories about what it was like during Vietnam keeping these aircraft flying. With their experience and patience they help us become confident maintainers ready for any tasks and I will always appreciate that.

Great plane worked on them in Japan 610 Mass changed windshield,tires,brakes,flight controls,landing gear,cargo ramp and put chain back on the rudder pedals! Still can’t believe there gone!

My grandpa helped make that

I worked on this jet for 8 years. Some on flight line and time in Iso dock. It's truly a workhorse. I've flown maintenance flights, jacked, pressurized, bird strike, lightning strikes, hot breaks were all common,. We had so much fun working on this plane. Loading marines, equipment, all kinds of stuff, stuff I can't talk about.. The narrator talked about the AC system is partly right the ram air is cooled but this plane has two AC packs the further cool the air with high speed turbines. I knew this plane so well we use to troubleshoot it before it hit the ground and take bets. I've seen these things land nose landing gear first in high winds overseas....I wrote about the nose landing before he talked about it...lol.. He sounds like a Crew Chef, I was a electrical specialist. But overseas we all are Crew Chefs and we all share in getting it off the ground for its mission. The worst mission this plane had was bringing back our fallen soldiers...I had dreams for years of this plane filled with caskets during Vietnam and the Gulf War. We also set this plane up for medevac..soldiers or civilians hurt and needed ingredients to get back to the states for treatment. I never would have guessed I would be a medevac patient on my own AC. It wasn't pleasant. Since I worked in Iso Docks I had a chance to work on the NASA A model with a huge telescope in it. I don't think they even fly these anymore? I miss working on aircraft...now I fly RC planes. Yeah we use to listen to the radio overseas...we had a little of home. Nice to see this jet agian! Thanks for the memories...

Weren't these fitted with howitzers and you guys would just circle a kill zone and start blasting away?

I liked the two tone paint jobs better than all grey.

Thank you for the video. I did see 2 tours in Vietnam as a medic from 69 and was out in 11/73. I wanted to go in AF as mechanic or flight engineer, he recruiter told me those fields were career so no openings. But wanted me to PJ as I was a medic and had worked dust of flights. Came back went to A&P school and an airline but then to General aviation. If gotten in AF I would done at least 20 years. Earned a BA in aviation Maintenance and BS in physics.

Lived in relatively close proximity to McGuire AFB in New Jersey, just across the river; under twenty miles or so. The C-141 was a common sight in the '60s. My uncle was an Air Force Captain in that era and briefly did live on the base. As a kid going to visit we'd see the tails with their MATS designation lined-up as far as the eye could see. My uncle was a courier of some sort and he got his Air Force 'frequent flyer' miles going back and forth between DC, New Jersey and the Philippines. Very stoic fellow, my uncle, who proudly served our country very well.

Flew back from Nam in one of these C-141's December 21st 1967. The plane was full of Helicopter Blades being sent for Repair in the States. 12 of us GI's hitched a ride back to the World and sat in Jump Seats for 3 days. Pretty cold in the cargo area flying at 40,000 feet. Left Tan Son Nhut to Nagoya to Fairbanks to Texas to Georgia to Dover. Took us 3 days I believe. Arrived December 24 in Dover. One of the guys said someone stole this Money Orders and they called the MP's we waited several hours for the MP's to arrive. One of the guys said to check this guys bags first. They found the money orders where he had hid them. The MP's detained him awhile and let the rest of us go. Me and 2 other guys took a taxi to Newark, NJ Airport. We all flew to different airports. I went to Detroit arrived there the next day. We all just had are tropical Short Sleeve Uniforms. Cold as Hell then. But we just wanted to get home. This had been my second tour. Finally went back to Nam in 2017., 50 years later. This time to Play Golf and sight see.

Thank you for your service Mr. Linton...I really enjoy stories of our armed forces vets and how they went about themselves....god bless..

This is my all-time favorite plane. My mom flew on these out of Norton AFB. I loved listening to the stories of her flights. My favs were jerry-rigging an incubator coming from Pago Pago and the moose damaging the clamshell in Alaska. I grew up sitting on the flight line watching these ladies practice touch and go, dumping cargo and just plain flying. Btw, you didn't talk about the different configurations this plane has or show where the coffee maker plugs in😉😂😂

I can't get enough of the C-141 videos as I worked on those at Norton AFB, California and flew on them from Norton to bases like McGuire and Dover AFB's and sometimes to Dover AFB and usually slept most of the way there and that was a great airplane and performed perfectly at Norton. That airplane was assigned to the 445 MAW at Norton AFB, California where I was stationed at. When I got there the models being flown was the A models and then they changed them to the B model with the refueling attachment and the extended length.

The TF-33 was basically a J-57 with a fan hung on it,they were the first medium bypass ratio engines.

I worked 141's at Robins AFB for 17 years as a civil service mechanic.I was in functional test and we flew airplanes everyday.This aircraft is probably the most simple and reliable heavy airlifter of all time,at one time the fleet had a 98% sortie rate throughout the services.She was a well designed airlifter from Lockheed and no one did it better back then.

This vid is absolutely fantastic. Lonnie has a steel trap of a memory for only working on the plane for 2.5 years. Thanks to both of you for sharing. Most knowledge of the little operation details are only known to the men who lived on these planes during their operational life. It's stuff you'll never find on a wiki page or C-141 documentary! And I would trust Lonnie's expertise over a Lockheed flight manual any day!

I’ve flown as a passenger on these three times

Listening to this veteran tell “stories” about the very airframe on display breathes life into that huge pile of aluminum. Just try to imagine everything this aircraft has “seen” in its service life. Think of the millions of miles this aircraft travelled over the years. Just try to imagine everything hauled in its cargo hold. From the supplies necessary to conduct the Vietnam war to the collective sorrow of returning fallen military personnel. It would be quite a project but one full of amazing content if somehow just some of the aircrew who flew this aircraft could be found and contribute a couple of interesting stories. What a history to read! Americans could then gain a new appreciation for just how versatile the aircraft our tax dollars buy can be. My late Father was career USAF. We spent quite a while at the USAF Pacific bases in the 60’s thru early 70’s. On Armed Forces Day I always enjoyed crawling around the C-141’s and KC-135’s. Listening to aircrews talk about flying over Vietnam was fascinating to my 6 year old self. I was in awe that something that huge could actually get off the ground and fly all the way across the Pacific Ocean.

Man! His knowledge is better than mine many years later! Flew these out of McGuire AFB from 93 to 98. 480 strokes for the apu. Do remember that.

Was good to see my old venerable C-141. Worked the "A" and "B" models, off and on, for over 20 years. This gentlemen was a Crew Chief, 431X1 Air Force Specialty code (AFSC), I was an Avionics Systems maintenance guy. AFSC 325X1. We did all of the RADAR, Navigation, Radio Systems and also all of the engine and flight instruments. The crew chiefs had a hard job - refuel/defuel, towing, tire changes and brake changes, plus lubs. They had both inside and outside generic work to perform. Was a thankless job, IMHO. The fuel capacity for the 141 was actually 154,550 lbs. ~ 24,000 gallons., at approximately 6.4 lbs per gallon. Worked the fuel systems so am aware of the fuel capacity. I'm wondering if this crew chief told his supervisor that that guy broke the windshield. Doing that was an act of terrorism. I never worked that particular airplane. Was at the 438th MAW, McGuire AFB, NJ.

Refueled many of these beautiful birds during my stunt in the USAF, Especially while at Ramstein AB, Germany!! 31st. & 86th. TFW (POL) "73-78" 🇺🇸✈✈ #Memories

Interesting to hear about the different things they did to maintain theese airplanes from people who worked on them. Edit: Hey! 60177 It is. Hanoi Taxi her self. Oh, wow.

this aircraft was one of the aircraft i serviced as a crewchief at Norton AFB from 1982 to 1992.

Thanks for caring!!

Thank you for this C141 tour. I do believe that all who had the privilege to work on these amazing birds will never forget the good ole days. I was 438 FMS Structural Repair at McGire AFB from 1973 to 1976 and worked every amazing inch of the C141

C-141s were my ride from Clark in the Philippines to Thailand and back in 74-75. Nice ride.

Flew on a 141 from Bentwaters, UK to Bittburg, Germany TDY n back. The seats faced towards the back of plane.......👍

Early spring 1968 dozens of these came in to Bergstrom AFB Texas.Mission to take hundreds and hundreds of Ft Hood troops to riot duty across the USA.Sad time for our country.

Travis AFB alum crew chief here: 602 OMS, 60 MAW '74-'79. Thank you for this tour it brought back a lot of memories working on the C-141A's. The B model conversion was just beginning when I left Travis.

Thank you for an amazing video.

I must be the only one that HATED flying on the 141. Loved the C 130's, C-7 (Caribou) and of course the C-5, the Cadillac of the skies. Never got to fly the C-17, but I hear its a great ride from those that have.

Thanks ole timer for the Video, I worked as an 514th M.A.W. Air Reserve Technician at McGuire from September 1979 to September 2005 on this Aircraft! Seen a lot, did a lot to maintain this Aircraft as an Aircraft Mechanic! Thanks for the Memories?