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In her cap and gown. The wind was blowing a bit.

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The Boeing YC-14 is a twinjet short take-off and landing (STOL) tactical military transport aircraft. It was Boeing's entrant into the United States Air Force's Advanced Medium STOL Transport (AMST) competition, which aimed to replace the Lockheed C-130 Hercules as the USAF's standard STOL tactical transport. Although both the YC-14 and the competing McDonnell Douglas YC-15 were successful, neither aircraft entered production. The AMST project was ended in 1979 and replaced by the C-X program.

 

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McDonnell-Douglas YC-15 at the 1976 Farnborough air show.

 

Photo by John W. Read.

This is one very cool place - the official name is Aerospace Maintenance and Regeneration Center (AMARC) but it is commonly known as an aircraft boneyard. There are several thousand airplanes here, mostly military, in various conditions - some are mothballed for potential future service, some are used for spare parts, while others are being demolished due to various treaty obligations.

 

AMARC is adjacent to Davis-Monthan Air Force Base. The only way to visit it is to take a tour that leaves from the Pima Air and Space Museum. The boneyard is great to see but hard to photograph - you are in a bus with highly polarized window, the bus doesn't stop, you can't get off, and to shoot out of the other side of the bus you have to shoot around people. In spite of the that I loved how the photos turned out.

 

I was able to check out this amazing place in February 2011. If you are in the Tucson area you should check it out!

The YC-14 competed against the McDonnell Douglas YC-15 to replace the C-130. The DoD decided to cancel any replacements and fund a new project for a much larger aircraft. This led to the C-17.

 

C-130s and KC-135s in the backround.

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There was only two of these airplanes ever made, and if you visit this site and the yard at the Pima Air and Space Museum, you can see both in the same place.

 

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a lovely & cheerful person that i'm grateful to have.

always a pleasure to have her around for a good chat bout anything.

 

i've known her for ages. as we grew older, we went our separate ways but managed to keep in touch occasionally.

then it struck me. where are my friends?

the last few years, i took a step back, look at where my friends are & made an effort to track them down. that culminated in many meeting(s) like this.

 

she was back from shanghai for a holiday after a year away. managed to get hold of her to share the stories of our lives.

 

friends come & go. i realised that as i grow older, i can only get along with a few. it came to my attention that my great friend(s) are the one that i've met & known in the early part of my life. they are the one for keeps. Ching, gladly to say you're one of them :)

 

YC-7A.

Fort Bragg, North Carolina.

1970's

 

Now on display at Linear Air Park, Dyess AFB, TX, painted as 58-2082.

By the 1970s, the USAF was aware that the C-130 Hercules was getting older, and would need replacement sometime in the near future. In 1972, the USAF issued the Advanced Medium STOL Transport (AMST) requirement, calling for a jet-powered transport capable of landing 27,000 pounds of cargo on a 2000-foot landing field with a range of 1200 miles without refueling. Six companies put in designs, and the USAF chose Boeing's YC-14 and McDonnell Douglas' YC-15 for actual production of test aircraft.

 

Though the YC-15 was fairly conventional in its layout, Boeing's YC-14 was more radical. The company already had a great deal in experience with "blown" flaps with the 747, in which air is blown over the flaps to give them better low-speed handling. That was just the beginning: Boeing also wanted to use the new supercriticial wing design, which offered better low speed handling with the same drag coefficent as a swept wing, and engines mounted high on the wing to take advantage of the newly-discovered Coanda effect. The latter blows the engine exhaust over the flaps, not only giving the same benefit as blown flaps, but also forcing the exhaust towards the ground earlier than in conventional aircraft, allowing for a shorter takeoff run.

 

The YC-14 first flew in August 1976, and two were built. Some minor tweaks had to be made (such as moving the tail forward), but both it and the YC-15 exceeded the AMST requirement. Boeing had the inside track, however, as the YC-14 was able to carry a M60 tank, whereas the YC-15 was unable to, and fly as slow as 65 mph thanks to the various high-lift designs incorporated in the YC-14.

 

Neither aircraft's performance would matter, however: in 1979, the USAF decided that it wanted an aircraft that could fulfill the strategic role as well as the tactical, as a replacement for the C-141 Starlifter rather than the C-130. Both the YC-14 and YC-15 were too small for that, and the AMST program was cancelled. The research involved would be used a decade later in the C-17 Globemaster III, though it was based much more on the YC-15. The high-mounted engines taking advantage of the Coanda effect would be used in a production transport, however--but the transport was the Soviet An-72/An-74 Coaler.

 

Both YC-14s were put into storage in case they were needed for further research, and in 1981 the first prototype, 72-1873, was donated to the Pima Air and Space Museum. (The second prototype, 72-1874, is close by in "Celebrity Row" at AMARG, the legendary "Boneyard" storage area.) 72-1873 has looked better: its markings have badly faded in the Arizona sun, and it is missing some of the windscreen and both engines.

075/YC Emb Xingu French Air Force

Chateaudun 11/5/03

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