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Description
| Manufacturer: | Boeing | |
| Base model: | C-135 | |
| Designation: | RC-135 | |
| Version: | D | |
| Nickname: | Stratolifter | |
| Designation System: | U.S. Air Force | |
| Designation Period: | 1925-1962 | |
| Basic role: | Transport | |
| Modified Mission: | Reconnaissance | |
Specifications
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Recent comments by our visitors
| Don Walker (Jr) Texarkana, TX | We lived at Eielson from 12/70 to 12/74. My dad (Don Sr) was Cdr of the 24th the last 2 yrs we were there. He passed away 5 years after retiring 9/22/82. 04/03/2013 @ 15:20 [ref: 67711] |
| C Reich , OK | When the RC-135D (serials 60-356,357,& 362)first operated out of Eielson, they were identified as a KC-135A-II 01/13/2013 @ 15:33 [ref: 67497] |
| Robert (Bob) Gilbert Denton, TX | I was a airborne radar repairman with the 4157th at Elision from Oct 63-Jun 65. My shop tried something a little different for over a year. They assigned each of the hogs to a single person to act as an 'electronic' crew. I was assigned to 362 as the only person from the shop to work on the plane. I remember that time with interest. When the hog had one of my systems broken, I was working. When everything was repaired I was off until needed. Remember one time I worked for 36 hours before getting it fixed. Other times I was off a week at a time. When something I had worked on needed flight testing, I was onboard. Bob Gilbert 03/07/2012 @ 13:26 [ref: 54125] |
| Jennings Heilig Newport, VA | My uncle Kay Heilig was a USAFSS 203 with the 6985th at Eielson from 1966-1970. I do aircraft illustration, and have a great personal interest in the RC-135D. If anyone has any candid photos (or really any photos) of them that they would be willing to share, I'd be most interested in getting in touch. I'm particularly interested in '362 when she had the big dish radome on the belly. Thanks!
Happy Holidays to one and all! jrh-at-pemtel.net 12/10/2011 @ 15:09 [ref: 51072] |
| Jennings Heilig Newport, VA | My uncle Kay Heilig was a USAFSS 203 with the 6985th at Eielson from 1966-1970. I do aircraft illustration, and have a great personal interest in the RC-135D. If anyone has any candid photos (or really any photos) of them that they would be willing to share, I'd be most interested in getting in touch. I'm particularly interested in '362 when she had the big dish radome on the belly. Thanks!
Happy Holidays to one and all! jrh-at-pemtel.net 12/10/2011 @ 15:08 [ref: 51071] |
| Russ Jester Longwood, FL | 40F or above and water on. Not a big need at Eielson, but needed at Kadena and Mildenhall. Remember stageing thru Guam to get to Kadena and going in MITO with the B52's on their way to bomb Viet Nam. Now that was some kinda smoke. I remember we used Accel/Climb mode on the FD109 to get cleaned up before we ran out of water. The Nav 1 would call out the water remaining time.
YUP the good old days. 11/27/2010 @ 18:44 [ref: 33374] |
| James R. McBrayer Sulphur Springs, TX | I was the Wing Boom Operator 6th Strat Wg Tanker Operations
Amber Hall from May 73 - Aug 77. Best assignment in my 26 + years service. 04/24/2010 @ 05:17 [ref: 26074] |
| Bob Rankin Dagsboro, DE | Assigned to 6985th from 1962-66 which was the original project OFFICE BOY. Arrived 9/62 even before the A/C did. Was a young TSgt and NCOIC of Dawg flt with 2LT Gary Belcher as flt commander and Capt Doyle Larson as Sq Commander (later M/G Larson). 30 month tour, stayed 4 yrs.Flew about 1600 hrs. Never a problem (that I was aware of). Terrific people everywhere LOVED IT 07/27/2008 @ 13:16 [ref: 22273] |
| Mick St.Clair Salem, VA | I was a photographer stationed at Eielson in 1969-70 and I shot lots of photos of the tankers and the RC-135s. I have a wonderful color photo of a Cobra Ball at night in the big hangar. I remember seeing the RCs and tankers using up most of the runway to get airborne, trailing the black smoke from the engines. Our photo lab processed the mission film from the RC-135s. I used to walk through the dayroom of the 24th SRS since they were in the same building as our photo lab (Amber Hall, formerly Ptarmigan Hall). I can remember seeing all the coffee cups of the crewmembers lined up on the wall of the dayroom when I occasionally walked through there. I made friends with a tanker crew and even rode with them from Eielson to Orlando AFB, Fla. in their KC-135. WOW, that was almost 40 years ago and I remember those big big birds roaring down the runway like it was yesterday. 03/05/2008 @ 08:35 [ref: 19865] |
| Tom Tolar Palmetto, FL | Ah, the old KC-135 "water wagon." Four J57 PW's with water injection... what a mess! Flew them for a couple of years out of Griffiss AFB in Rome, NY. They would suck about 600 gal. of water through 'em to boost the thrust (increasing mass out the ass gave it a little more boost). It was a thrill-a-minute! Well actually 2 minutes... the time it took to use up the 600g. We used to joke about putting a bag of rocks in front of the nosewheel so we could open it up (we never did figure out how to do that) and make the KC think it had run out of runway and decide to get airborne! The more I think about it the more I DON'T miss that old bird. Oh well. At least I'm around for the memories. I enjoy reading all the comments. Take care. 01/10/2008 @ 05:25 [ref: 19212] |
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