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  2. Boeing RC-135 - Wikipedia

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    The Boeing RC-135 is a family of large reconnaissance aircraft built by Boeing and modified by a number of companies, including General Dynamics, Lockheed, LTV, E-Systems, L3Harris Technologies, and used by the United States Air Force and Royal Air Force to support theater and national level intelligence consumers with near real-time on-scene collection, analysis and dissemination capabilities.

  3. Boeing C-135 Stratolifter - Wikipedia

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    The Boeing C-135 Stratolifter is a transport aircraft derived from the prototype Boeing 367-80 jet airliner [3] (also the basis for the 707) in the early 1950s. It has a narrower fuselage and is shorter than the 707. Boeing gave the aircraft the internal designation of Model 717, [4] a name later assigned to a completely different aircraft.

  4. Boeing KC-135 Stratotanker - Wikipedia

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    The Boeing KC-135 Stratotanker is an American military aerial refueling tanker aircraft that was developed from the Boeing 367-80 prototype, alongside the Boeing 707 airliner. It has a narrower fuselage and is shorter than the 707.

  5. Boeing NC-135 - Wikipedia

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    Big Crow is the designation of the two NKC-135 test-bed aircraft (55-3132 and 63-8050) heavily modified for electronic warfare testing. These planes were also used as a target simulator for flight testing the Boeing YAL-1 Airborne Laser. [5]

  6. Boeing WC-135 Constant Phoenix - Wikipedia

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    The WC-135 Constant Phoenix is a special-purpose aircraft derived from the Boeing C-135 Stratolifter and used by the United States Air Force.Its mission is to collect samples from the atmosphere for the purpose of detecting and identifying nuclear explosions.

  7. Boeing EC-135 - Wikipedia

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    The Boeing EC-135 is a retired family of command and control aircraft derived from the Boeing C-135 Stratolifter.During the Cold War, the EC-135 was best known for being modified to perform the Looking Glass mission where one EC-135 was always airborne 24 hours a day to serve as flying command post for the Strategic Air Command in the event of nuclear war.

  8. Westover Air Force Base KC-135 crash - Wikipedia

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    The two civilian agencies sought any information that would affect the KC-135's civilian counterpart, the Boeing 707, which was soon to be put in operation. [6] On September 30, 1958, the Air Force release its report, which determined that there was no structural failure of the KC-135 and there were no issues with its engine. [8]

  9. 1965 USAF KC-135 Wichita crash - Wikipedia

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    On 16 January 1965, a U.S. Air Force Boeing KC-135 Stratotanker crashed in the central United States, in a neighborhood in north-eastern Wichita, Kansas, after taking off from McConnell Air Force Base. [1] This resulted in the deaths of all seven crew members on board the aircraft and an additional twenty-three people on the ground. [2] [3]