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Maggie’s Motivational Pic Thread v2.0 - - New Rules - See Post #1

I don't know about this particular situation, but I know that at the end of their careers, -141's had serious wing box problems and many had TCTO's limiting the weight that could be put on the plane.

I have my own story that's too long to tell here.
 
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I don't know about this particular situation, but I know that at the end of their careers, -141's had serious wing box problems and many had TCTO's limiting the weight that could be put on the plane.

I have my own story that's too long to tell here.
Yep, flew them for most of my career…. The wing box issue was fixed with boron-epoxy patches that were actually stronger than the airframe. We also had the corrosion issues around the cockpit windows that limited us to something like 10 or so PSID (honestly don’t recall the number), so we were restricted to low 20Kish MSL for awhile…sucked.

Pic thread rules: I don't think this pic’s from the flight I was on, but flew this photo op sortie several times in the 8 years I was at McChord:

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