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Author : Frederick A. Johnsen
Publisher : WarbirdTech
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 116 pages
Book Rating : 4.97/5 ( download)
Download or read book Lockheed C-141 Starlifter written by Frederick A. Johnsen and published by WarbirdTech. This book was released on 2005 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 8-1/2 x 11, 250 b/w pgs plus 4 pgs of color photos
Author : John Gourley
Publisher : Schiffer Military History
ISBN 13 : 9780764361722
Total Pages : 128 pages
Book Rating : 4.24/5 ( download)
Download or read book C-141 Starlifter written by John Gourley and published by Schiffer Military History. This book was released on 2021-06-28 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Lockheed C-141 Starlifter was a new-build design by Lockheed and proved adaptable to many roles, from carrying outsized cargo to dropping paratroops. The C-141 was used in regions as extreme as the heat and humidity of Vietnam, the deserts of the Middle East, and the frozen ice pack of Antarctica. Modification programs enabled the C-141 to make full use of its capabilities, by adding in-flight refueling plus extending the length of the fuselage. The plane was a valued and appreciated USAF asset in numerous missions, from disaster aid and humanitarian relief to doing their part in Operation Desert Shield/Storm, and in the war on terror. The aircraft were eventually retired enmasse simply as a result of wear and tear in 2006. This book covers in detail all aspects such as interior/exterior configurations, cargo capabilities, missions, and modifications made throughout its service life.
Author : Frederick a. Johnsen
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781580072106
Total Pages : 106 pages
Book Rating : 4.00/5 ( download)
Download or read book Lockheed C-141 Starlifter- Warbirdtech written by Frederick a. Johnsen and published by . This book was released on 2005-06 with total page 106 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The photos in this edition are black and white. During World War II, the need for military transports prompted the modification of bombers with varying degrees of success, yet ships remained the means for moving armies overseas. As the Cold War verged into the early 1960s, some American military planners realized the need for rapid deployment of military assets to trouble spots around the world, since not all threats could be countered with a nuclear deterrent. Airlift would be a key, but old reliable transports like the piston-engine C-124 Globemaster II were too slow for the task.Using generally proven components, Lockheed's swept-wing C-141 confirmed for the U.S. Air Force the promise of a global airlift. With the Starlifter, cargo and troops could be airlifted intercontinentally at three-quarters the speed of sound. From the 1960s to the 21st century, C-141s have been a trusted transporter of everything from troops and helicopters to returned hostages and presidential limousines. Lockheed C-141 Starlifter includes an account of the circumstances that led to the C-141, its design and structural details, flight characteristics, and development from C-141A to C-141B, and finally to C-141C.
Author : Harold H. Martin
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 216 pages
Book Rating : 4.78/5 ( download)
Download or read book StarLifter: the C-141 written by Harold H. Martin and published by . This book was released on 1972 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Bob Archer
Publisher : Historic Military Aircraft
ISBN 13 : 9781802820430
Total Pages : 96 pages
Book Rating : 4.34/5 ( download)
Download or read book Lockheed C-141 Starlifter written by Bob Archer and published by Historic Military Aircraft. This book was released on 2022-09 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The C-141 Starlifter, quite simply, looked right and was right. During the second half of the 1960s, it became a worldwide visitor, and it was in service for more than 40 years before the final examples were retired. With over 170 images and detailed information, this book looks at the aircraft itself, as well as the organizations that flew it.
Author : Nancy R. Kingsbury
Publisher : DIANE Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780756746872
Total Pages : 46 pages
Book Rating : 4.76/5 ( download)
Download or read book Military Airlift written by Nancy R. Kingsbury and published by DIANE Publishing. This book was released on 2005-06 with total page 46 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Chris Reed
Publisher : Schiffer Pub Limited
ISBN 13 : 9780764312052
Total Pages : 80 pages
Book Rating : 4.57/5 ( download)
Download or read book Lockheed C-5 Galaxy written by Chris Reed and published by Schiffer Pub Limited. This book was released on 2000 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Still the largest U.S. military aircraft more than three decades after its first flight, the Lockheed C-5 Galaxy remains an integral part of Air Mobility Command into the 21st century. Lockheed C-5 Galaxy chronicles the development and service career of this behemoth of the airways, starting with the early 1960s requirement for a larger airlifter to supplement the C-141A, through Galaxys troubled early history to the types service during the Nickel Grass, Desert Shield, and other airlift operations. Several Galaxy counterparts, such as the Antonov An-124, are also depicted. Over 140 photographs, nearly all in color and many never before published, show the C-5 and other airlifters in a variety of paint schemes, while detail shots will be of use to the scale modeler.
Author : United States. General Accounting Office
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 50 pages
Book Rating : 4.89/5 ( download)
Download or read book Military Airlift written by United States. General Accounting Office and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 50 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Joe Kirby
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780738587967
Total Pages : 132 pages
Book Rating : 4.66/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Lockheed Plant written by Joe Kirby and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2011 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Lockheed Plant in Marietta has been building many of the world's most legendary aircraft for the past 60 years--and that doesn't even count its service building B-29 bombers for the Bell Aircraft Company during World War II. Lockheed's six decades have seen the plant build jet bombers, like the B-47 Stratojet; the world's most dominant fighter jet (the F-22 Raptor); and the most vaunted cargo planes (C-130 Hercules, C-141 StarLifter, and C-5 Galaxy). In Images of America: The Lockheed Plant, readers will learn about those planes, the people who designed and assembled them, and the plant in which they were built. The striking images in this book were shared by Lockheed Martin and the Marietta Daily Journal and depict the plant from its construction through today.
Author : Stephen Lee McFarland
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 96 pages
Book Rating : 4.95/5 ( download)
Download or read book A Concise History of the U.S. Air Force written by Stephen Lee McFarland and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 1997 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Except in a few instances, since World War II no American soldier or sailor has been attacked by enemy air power. Conversely, no enemy soldier orsailor has acted in combat without being attacked or at least threatened by American air power. Aviators have brought the air weapon to bear against enemies while denying them the same prerogative. This is the legacy of the U.S. AirForce, purchased at great cost in both human and material resources.More often than not, aerial pioneers had to fight technological ignorance, bureaucratic opposition, public apathy, and disagreement over purpose.Every step in the evolution of air power led into new and untrodden territory, driven by humanitarian impulses; by the search for higher, faster, and farther flight; or by the conviction that the air way was the best way. Warriors have always coveted the high ground. If technology permitted them to reach it, men, women andan air force held and exploited it-from Thomas Selfridge, first among so many who gave that "last full measure of devotion"; to Women's Airforce Service Pilot Ann Baumgartner, who broke social barriers to become the first Americanwoman to pilot a jet; to Benjamin Davis, who broke racial barriers to become the first African American to command a flying group; to Chuck Yeager, a one-time non-commissioned flight officer who was the first to exceed the speed of sound; to John Levitow, who earned the Medal of Honor by throwing himself over a live flare to save his gunship crew; to John Warden, who began a revolution in air power thought and strategy that was put to spectacular use in the Gulf War.Industrialization has brought total war and air power has brought the means to overfly an enemy's defenses and attack its sources of power directly. Americans have perceived air power from the start as a more efficient means of waging war and as a symbol of the nation's commitment to technology to master challenges, minimize casualties, and defeat adversaries.
