StarLifter
The C-141, Lockheed's High Speed Flying Truck

by Harold H. Martin

This is a copy of the RARE and out-of-print book "STARLIFTER - The C-141, Lockheed's High Speed Flying Truck". The book tells the story of the C-141 from its inception up to about 1972 when it was published. It's a good snapshot of life in MAC at that time.

Barry Geier, a frequent visitor to C-141 Heaven, loaned us his copy of this book. After trying fruitlessly to locate the publisher (who appears to be out of business) and the author (who may have passed away), the book has been scanned and converted to HTML and post it here for all of us C-141 nuts to share. This was a pretty massive undertaking, but the results have turned out well. If there are typos or spelling errors please blame the OCR conversion program, not the author or publisher. Any such errors will be corrected as they are found.

Table of Contents

1. Preface
2. Introduction
3. Warplane at Work
4. More Mule Than Racehorse
5. So We Flew
6. The Most Forgiving Airplane
7. "Go" in All Weathers
8. Horseplay in the High Sky
9. Meet the Crew
10. This Plane Can Hack It
11. The Black Hatters and the Book
12. Plane for Hire
13. The Plane That Can See in the Dark
14. Lifeblood
15. The Men Who Want Out
16. Voices in the Night
17. Hospital in the Sky
18. The Long Flight Home
19. Back to the World
20. Epilogue

Here's the results of a search for this title on the internet: Three people were offering a copy of the book for sale. This is a VERY RARE book. Check out the picture below for the evidence!