Used to march by one of these on my way to class at Chanute AFB, IL back in the dark ages. Would have loved to work on these but they were a bit ahead of my time.
Larry Toler, yes that is a C-133. For some reason I did not get a good pic of the entire C-133, only most of the fuselage in a separate photo. Included in the SAC collection since it was built primarily to carry Atlas ICBMs.
Jeff Voelkers, you might not have enjoyed working on them. I was at Chanute as well, Oct'71-May'72, for Flight Sim Tech school and one of my classmates was a a SSGT being retrained out of B-58 radio maint. He had horror stories about the maintenance headaches.
In 1969 in AF pilot training on my solo T-38 cross country day/night out and back, I was #2 to land at Little Rock AFB behind a B-58 Hustler. He was quite a sight in the late afternoon sun and I flew final a bit high to avoid his wake :))
Larry Toler & Will Sutton: Just for fun, I did a bit of digging to try and find some history on the C-133 in this pic. Here is what I found on Joe Baugher's fantastic website...
59-0536 Douglas C-133B-DL Cargomaster MSN 45587 Delivered to the USAF Mar 22, 1961. To 1501st Air Transport Wing (Military Air Transport Service), Travis AFB, CA Apr 1961. Unit became 60th Military Airlift Wing Jan 1966. To 3902nd Air Base Wing (Strategic Air Command), Offutt AFB, NE Jun 1971. Dropped from inventory by transfer to school or museum Dec 1971. To SAC Museum, Omaha, NB, then to Air Mobility Command Museum, Dover AFB, DE in summer of 2000.
Please log in or register to post a comment.