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FLIGHT International, 12 September 1963 465 C-141 ROLL-OUT . . March 13, 1961 White House announced Lockheed winner in competition to build fan-jet transport to help modernize America's airlift programme. C-141 to fly in December, 1963; join Military Air Transport Service in 1964. Also in March, the Air Force and FAA agreed that all aircraft must be certifiable by FAA. April 7, 1961 Air Force Systems Command executed initial letter contract authorizing Lockheed to proceed with C-141 programme. May 1961 Lockheed submitted make-or-buy policy for Air Force appro val, and briefed prospective subcontractors, who eventually won contracts for constructing 60 per cent of the aircraft by weight, June 1961 First of 2,100 engineering design packages released to manu facturing system. August 1961 First of 21 major subcontractors over US and in Canada activated; Rohr received job on engine nacelles, pylons, thrust reversers. September 1961 First full-scale engineering mock-up completed. First master model (basic contour control tool from which fabrication and assembly tooling was to be gauged) was completed. January 1962 Air Force, FAA and commercial-airline teams inspected Lockheed's full-scale fuselage mock-up, and C-141 Systems Program Office formally approved the Model Specification. May 1962 FAA conducted Preliminary Type Certification Board meet ing, and Air Force-FAA-Lockheed Executive Council re viewed programme plans and progress. June 19, 1962 First assembly—a cargo-floor bulkhead—was completed. During June, the first engine and prototype pylon were re ceived for engine test stand. September 1962 First subcontracted assemblies arrived—cargo floor plates from Bell Aerosystems, Buffalo, NY. January 1963 Fuselage body mate of C-141 started on schedule. Pratt & Whitney completed required I50hr engine runs on test TF33-P-7 engine. March 1963 First FAA-certificated production engine shipped from Pratt & Whitney to Rohr Aircraft. First airframe satisfactorily finished fuselage "pressure tests on schedule. April 1963 Wing, built by Avco at Nashville, Tenn, and shipped to Georgia on special railroad cars, was joined to the first fuse lage on schedule. May 1963 *As first C-141 entered final assembly, Air Force and Lockheed support activities increased, with work conferences held for spares and AGE (aerospace ground equipment) provisioning; for data support for flight simulators, six of which the Air Force has contracted for with General Precision's Link Divi sion; and for Air Force-FAA-Lockheed flight-test co-ordina tion. June, July 1963 Convair-built empennage and four fan-jet engines installed on first C-141 aircraft. Intensive test programme getting under way with static-test airframe and components. August 22, 1963 Roll-out. Subcontractor Rohr Corporation Rohr Corporation General Dynamics/Convair Bendix Products Aerospace Division Bendix Corporation Eclipse-Pioneer Division* Bendix Corporation Pacific Division* Cleveland Pneumatic Tool Co Avco Corporation Aerospace Structures Div Twin Industries Corp Brunswick Corporation Raymond Development Industries Shawnee Industries Inc Bell Aerosystems Beech Aircraft Kaman Aircraft Corp Brooks & Perkins Collins Radio Company* Garrett Corporation AiResearch Mfg Co Div* Garrett Corporation AiResearch Corp of Ariz* General Electric Company* Jarry Hydraulics Ltd* ICelsey-Hayes Company Steel Products Eng Co Div* Liquidometer Corporation* Pesco Products Div, Borg-Warner Corp* PneumoDynamics* Waiter Kidde & Co Inc* Western Gear Corporation* Location Chula Vista, Calif Riverside, Calif San Diego, Calif South Bend, Ind Teterboro, NJ N. Hollywood, Calif Cleveland, Ohio Nashville, Tenn Buffalo, NY Marion, Va Huntington Park, Calif Shawnee, Okla Buffalo, NY Wichita, Kans Moosup, Conn Detroit. Mich Cedar Rapids, Iowa Los Angeles, Calif Phoenix, Ariz Waynesboro, Va Erie, Pa West Lynn, Mass Montreal, Quebec, Canada Springfield, Ohio Long Island City, NY Bedford, Ohio Kalamazoo, Mich Belleville, NJ Lynwood, Calif Product Nacelles, pylons, thrust reversers Main landing gear door; main landing gear pods; wing to body panels; petal doors Empennage Main landing gear Automatic flight control system Anti-skid system Nose landing gear; wing flap track Wing box beam Wing leading edge; wing trailing edge panel Nose radome Doppler radome Aft pressure door; crew door; metal emergency exit; wing tip, and rear entry door Floor plates Wing flap; emergency exits; honeycomb; nose landing gear door; aileron, and wing spoiler Tail cone Roller assembly High-frequency antenna system Environmental system Environmental system Electrical power system Wing-spoiler actuation system Flap actuation system Fluid-quantity gauging system Thrust reversers Power-booster system Fire-detection system Tailplane pitch-trim actuator * Major suppliers No cargo-loading demonstration was given during the roll-out ceremony, but 154 troops showed what a StarLifter can carry when the seats are put in. The C-141 squats low on the ground, but maintenance personnel can climb up almost 40ft inside the fin to reach the tailplane controls, radio aerials and pitot tube. Nearly the whole interior of this first C-141 is at present occupied by flight-test instrumentation 12775 .* * |«ga*» mm
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