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1. NMUSFL_070702_009.JPG: Hanoi Taxi -- The Last Starlifter: On May 6, 2006, the U.S. Air Force retired its last Lockheed C-141 Starlifter to the National Museum of the United States Air Force at Wright-Patterson AFB, Ohio. The decades of distinguished service performed by C-141s would have been enough to draw the attention of aviation enthusiasts around the world, but the retirement of this particular aircraft, serial number 66-0177, marked a major milepost in American history. This aircraft had become world famous on February 12, 1973, as the first C-141 to land in North Vietnam to repatriate the American prisoners of war (POWs) as part of the peace settlement for the Southeast Asia War. Displaying a large Red Cross on its tail to demonstrate the humanitarian mission it was flying, 66-0177 landed at Gia Lam Airport, Hanoi, as the first group of 40 POWs waited with no visible signs of emotion. Having vowed to show no emotion in front of their North Vietnamese captors, they quietly boarded the airplane and took their seats. As the wheels lift the runway, however, the world inside the airplane erupted with a joyous cheer from the freed American servicemen, and this now famous aircraft turned toward Clark Air Force Base in the Philippines on the flight that symbolized the end of the Southeast Asia War. This aircraft flew two missions into Hanoi, carrying out 78 POWs and two civilian refugees to the Philippines, and four missions from the Philippines to the United States carrying 76 ex-POWs. Afterward, 66-0177 continued flying missions around the world, but the airplane would never be the same. Demonstrating its historic importance, the aircraft quickly became immortalized with the nickname: Hanoi Taxi. Over the next three decades of service, the Hanoi Taxi flew more than 40,000 hours, and it underwent many changes. Originally built as a C-141A model, its fuselage was lengthened by 23.3 feet in the early 1980s, and the U.S. Air Force redesignated it as a C-141B. Later, the aircraft had its wings strengthened, and from 1997 to 2001, and C-141Bs were converted to C-141Cs by the addition of advanced avionics. In 2002, the Hanoi Taxi received its final programmed depot maintenance, and it was repainted as it appeared when it went to Hanoi in 1973 -- except for the Red Cross. It flew in these markings for the next four years. In May 2004, the Hanoi Taxi again tapped the timelines of history when Maj. Gen. Edward J. Mechenbier, himself a POW repatriated from Vietnam, flew it back to Vietnam to repatriate the remains of two American service members killed in action. Much as the designation of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington, D.C. in 1982, marked a signpost for those American service members who died in the Southeast Asia War, the retirement of the Hanoi Taxi at the National Museum of the U.S. Air Force similarly marked the signpost for America's prisoners of war and missing in action of that war.
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Wikipedia Description: National Museum of the United States Air Force
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The National Museum of the United States Air Force (formerly the United States Air Force Museum) is the official national museum of the United States Air Force and is located on Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, in Riverside, Ohio, just east of Dayton. Over 300 aircraft and missiles are on display, most of them indoors. Admission is free.

Exhibits:
The museum has many rare and important aircraft and other exhibits, including one of four surviving Convair B-36s, the only surviving XB-70 Valkyrie, and Bockscar—the B-29 Superfortress that dropped the second atomic bomb in World War II. In contrast to its better-known Smithsonian counterpart, nearly all of the museum's exhibits are extremely accessible. Most are easily touched, even investigated, by visitors.

Presidential aircraft:
The museum has several Presidential aircraft, including those used by Franklin D. Roosevelt, Harry Truman, and Dwight D. Eisenhower. The centerpiece of the Presidential aircraft collection is SAM 26000, the first aircraft to be called Air Force One, a modified Boeing 707 used by Presidents John F. Kennedy through Richard Nixon during his first term, after which served as the backup Presidential aircraft. That aircraft was most used by Lyndon B. Johnson.

Pioneers of flight:
There is a large section of the museum dedicated to pioneers of flight, especially the Wright Brothers, who conducted some of their experiments at nearby Huffman Prairie. A replica of the Wright's 1909 Military Flyer is on display, as well as other Wright Brothers artifacts. The building also hosts the National Aviation Hall of Fame, which includes several educational exhibits.

Uniforms & clothing:
The museum has a large inventory of USAAF and Air Force clothing and uniforms in its collection. At any time over fifty WWII vintage A-2 leather flying jackets are on display, many of which belonged to famous figures in Air For ...More...
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2007 photos: Trips this year: Two weeks down south (including Graceland, Shiloh, VIcksburg, and New Orleans), a week at a time share in Costa Rica over my 50th birthday, a week off for a family reunion in the Wisconsin Dells (with sidetrips to Dayton, Springfield, and Madison), a week in San Diego for the Comic-Con with a side trip to Michigan for two family reunions, a drive up to Niagara Falls, a couple of weekend jaunts including the Civil War Preservation Trust Grand Review in Vicksburg, and a December journey to three state capitols (Richmond, Raleigh, and Columbia). I saw sites in 18 states and 3 other countries this year -- the first year I'd been to more than two other countries since we lived in Venezuela when I was a little toddler. Ego strokes: A photo that I took at the National Archives was used as the author photo on the book jacket for David A. Nichols' "A Matter of Justice: Eisenhower and the Beginning of the Civil Rights Revolution." I became a volunteer photographer at both Sixth and I Historic Synagogue and the Civil War Preservation Trust (later renamed "Civil War Trust").. Equipment this year: I used the Fuji S9000 almost exclusively except for the period when it broke and I had to send it back for repairs. In August, I bought a Canon Rebel Xti, my first digital SLR (vs regular digital) which I tried as well but I wasn't that excited by it. Number of photos taken this year: 225,000.
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