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Post by joseph29 on Aug 14, 2011 7:09:44 GMT
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Post by Trebor on Aug 14, 2011 7:12:45 GMT
what the.......I have NEVER seen or heard of that aircraft
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Post by railrunner130 on Aug 14, 2011 11:54:18 GMT
That would be an OC-135. I don't know many details, but I believe they are/were used to verify the destruction of ballistic missiles.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 14, 2011 14:17:19 GMT
wow the second picture looked very very slippery ground!!!! It is like on ice!!!
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Post by Deleted on Aug 14, 2011 14:21:12 GMT
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Post by Erik Ingram - HJG on Aug 14, 2011 18:55:34 GMT
what the.......I have NEVER seen or heard of that aircraft I have...I see them from my house every single day! It would sure be nice to see a suitable HJG equivalent! |
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Post by billb on Oct 2, 2011 15:20:59 GMT
SAC flies these daily at Offutt, but they have much better paint job on them. Know Captain who flies one.
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Post by christrott on Oct 2, 2011 18:18:34 GMT
There is no such thing as SAC. Hasn't been a SAC since 1992. The OC-135B's are operationally controlled by the Air Combat Command. There are no "better paint jobs". There are only 2 OC-135B's, both have identical paint. If you're seeing paint other than what the pictures linked above show, then you're seeing something else, like maybe one of the RC-135's that are also based at Offutt, one of the two WC-135 "Constant Phoenix" aircraft, or a Navy E-6B TACMO. Here's the better information on the OC-135B and its purpose - www.af.mil/information/factsheets/factsheet.asp?id=120 |
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Post by raptor6221 on Oct 3, 2011 23:07:49 GMT
The E-6B Mercury (TACAMO) birds are main based from Tinker AFB OK.
He is more than likely seeing alot of the 55th Wings -135 varients from his location. And they are rather secretive about their aircraft including the OpernSkies birds.
Raptor
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Post by christrott on Oct 4, 2011 23:22:26 GMT
Dunno why they'd be secretive about the OC-135's. Their configuration and operations are required to be publically available as per the Open Skies treaty. The only operations that I'm aware of that might be "secretive" are some of the operational overflights, but those are simply listed as "sensitive/priority" in the FAA database and have some of the information protected from public release. Some of the flight tracking sites have been following the OpenSkies flights since they file a public ICAO flightplan.
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