67-0006 Crash Info

I was recently sent about 500+ pages of material on the crash of 67-0006 (see post below). It is a huge amount of material and I'm going through it now to determine what might be suitable for posting here on C-141 Heaven.

Here's a shot of the Mildenhal weather radar, taken about 45 minutes after the accident. The heavy thunderstorms in the area and track of the aircraft (and its end point) are shown via the white line to the left side.

67-0006 Memorial

The memorial for 67-0006, which crashed in a huge thunderstorm just outside of Mildenhall in August 1976 was given a face-lift last month.

The link to the original article can be found by clicking here for as long as they don't take it down.

Photos By Charles W. Hanjy

Shoebox Find

Andrew Pollock found these pics from his time at Norton and sent them to me for scanning and posting here on C141Heaven.

These first few are of a honeycomb delamination repair job on the underside of the T-Tail of 60177 that he and another guy were assigned to do. He had the outstanding foresight to take along a camera and snap some shots from an angle most of us never had a chance to see.

These next pics are from a base-guide distributed to all new Norton personnel, probably by the housing office or some similar entity.

eBay Find

Bill Watkins found an old copy of American Aviation on eBay and sent me a couple of photos (cover and a Lockheed ad) from before the first flight of the C141 in December of 1963. At that time Lockheed still held out the hope that the C-141 would be sold to a wide civilian market.

"The German"

It has nothing to do with the C-141 but it's a very well done video and worth watching if you like aviation in WWII!

If you don't haven't spend much time on VIMEO they have a wide variety of fantastic videos of all types. It easy to waste hours there if you have no sense of time.

Written & Directed by Nick Ryan
Starring Toby Kebbell and Christian Brassington

10 minute short film

www.thegermanmovie.com

A British fighter pilot pursues the German ace that shot down his friend across sky and country... with murder in mind. But he discovers it's not so easy to kill a man when you have to look them in the eye

This was funded by an Irish Film Board scheme called 'Short Cuts' and was shot in November 2007. The Budget was €70K, and was used entirely on the live action components of the film - leaving a grand total of ZERO for visual effects!

The film's creator completed all the visual effects shots, over 120 in total, entirely by myself. Dave Head modelled the aircraft (and truck), but I textured, lit, animated and composited the shots over a six month period in 2008.

Crew Latrine

My last request last year was on behalf of someone working on a book about Medivac operations and he needed a bit of info about the crew latrine for some reason. Something to with possibly seeing someone try to plant a bomb in one during the evacuation of orphans from Tan Son Nhut in the last days of our adventures there.

I asked, and you responded with these stunning images:

It's enough to make you want to take a little trip on a C-141!