C-141 schoolhouse closes at Wright-Patterson.Air Force Reserve Command shut down its C-141 schoolhouse Oct. 14. A ceremony marked the closing of the school, officially called the C-141 Formal Training Unit managed by the 445th Airlift Wing at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio. Use of the facility, the only one of its kind in the Air Force, ended because all C-141s will retire by 2006. The school opened in January 2002 for C-141 pilots, loadmasters and flight engineers. The Air Force moved the school from Altus AFB AFB abbr. acid-fast bacillus AFB Acid-fast bacillus, also 1. Aflatoxin B 2. Aorto-femoral bypass , Okla., to Wright-Patterson in 2001. Although the school closed, the Reserve unit will still run a flight simulator flight simulator, device providing a controlled environment in which a flight trainee can experience conditions approximating those of actual flight. A simulator generally consists of an enclosure housing a working replica of the interior of the cockpit of an for training. "Eventually the C-141 simulator will be dismantled and the space made available for a C-5 simulator," said Maj. Linda Moore, AFRC AFRC Air Force Reserve Command (formerly AFRES) AFRC Armed Forces Revolutionary Council (Sierra Leone) AFRC Agricultural and Food Research Council (United Kingdom) acquisition adviser. "The alteration to the simulator facility is part of the military construction project for the 445th Airlift Wing." Wing officials expect to get the first C5A in October 2005. C-5s are the largest aircraft in the Air Force. (AFRC News Service from a 445th AW news release) |
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