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Description
| Manufacturer: | Boeing | |
| Base model: | C-135 | |
| Designation: | WC-135 | |
| Version: | B | |
| Nickname: | Stratolifter | |
| Designation System: | U.S. Air Force | |
| Designation Period: | 1925-1962 | |
| Basic role: | Transport | |
| Modified Mission: | Weather reconnaissance | |
Specifications
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Recent comments by our visitors
| Max Bradford , CA | Stationed at McClellan 72 to 76. Crewed 61-2673.It to took me all over the world & back.Spent lot's of time in Japan.I guess all of them are in the bone yard. 07/20/2015 @ 17:56 [ref: 69172] |
| Richard More Effort, PA | 56th W.R.S. April '69 through April '71. I Worked all 5 WC135B aircraft assigned. In the early months of my tour I worked in the 135 section office maintaining training records when not engaged in aircraft maintenance activities. Toward the end of my tout I was assigned to 62-2669 under Jack Allen and John Hackworth. The 56th was a very special unit where All specialties were rolled into one squadron, unlike other units where the specialties were separated. My roommates included the jet shop, sheet metal, met/are, avionics and admin. It was a unique time and experience. I will be forever grateful for being given the opportunity to serve with them. Go Ogers
06/13/2015 @ 16:53 [ref: 69124] |
| HAROLD LEE LINTHICUM SACRAMENTO, CA | I WAS CREW CHEIF ON61-2673 LOVED EVERY MINUTE OF IT LEARD EVERYTHIUNG ABOUT THAT AIRCRAFT INSISE AND OUT TOOK ME ALL OVER THE WORLD QUITE A FEW TIMES MET ALOT OF INTERESTING PEOPLE MILITARY AND CIVILIAN IHAD AGREAT TIME BEST CREWCHIEFS AND AIRCREW MISS IT ALOT 10/26/2014 @ 19:06 [ref: 68723] |
| HAROLD LEE LINTHICUM SACRAMENTO, CA | I WAS CREW CHEIF ON61-2673 LOVED EVERY MINUTE OF IT LEARD EVERYTHIUNG ABOUT THAT AIRCRAFT INSISE AND OUT TOOK ME ALL OVER THE WORLD QUITE A FEW TIMES MET ALOT OF INTERESTING PEOPLE MILITARY AND CIVILIAN IHAD AGREAT TIME BEST CREWCHIEFS AND AIRCREW MISS IT ALOT 10/26/2014 @ 19:05 [ref: 68722] |
| HAROLD LEE LINTHICUM SACRAMENTO, CA | I WORKED ON THE WC-135BS 61-2673 LOVED EVERY MINUTE OF IT LEARD SO MUCH TOOK ME ALL OVER THE WORLD MET A LOT OF INTRESTING PEOPLE CIVILIAN AND MILITARY IT WAS THE BEST TOUR 10/26/2014 @ 18:41 [ref: 68721] |
| Leonel Leal Pico Rivera, CA | I was with the 56th from 1969 to 1971 as a 135 mechanic. Red Madden and myself left the Fussa Fighters Squadron in April 71 and did our year of R&R in Vietnam. My only claim to fame is being able to do a one man main gear tire change, Jimmy Newell can validate the claim. My last acft 671. 08/16/2014 @ 12:14 [ref: 68611] |
| Roger Ashley Ormond Beach, FL | I was an ARWO (weather observer) with the 56th at Yokota from 1969-1972. We flew regular missions from Yokota to Eielson (RON) and a round robin daily as well as supporting ARCLIGHT B-52 ops. Your photos of a crashed 135 looks a lot like 672 from around 1971. I was told an elevator control rod was assembled backwards causing the elevator to lock. The plane wouldn't rotate! and only the quick thinking of the copilot in using the elevator trim tab got the plane off the overrun. They dumped fuel and landed using power settings. No one was injured. It was repaired by a Boeing crew and flew again about a year later. It was never right...
In about 2004 I was a meteorologist at Thule Greenland when 671 (I think) landed there- reconfigured for a new mission, but still flying. The Air Force certainly got its money's worth out of these aircraft. 02/22/2013 @ 07:14 [ref: 67607] |
| Michael Erwin Pahrump, NV | I was stationed at McClellan AFB in the 41st later to become the 11th CAMS from Feb 74 to June 79. I remember 666 (we called it triple sick). Every time that thing landed it had pages of "write ups". I was in Instruments and it was a nightmare for us. 02/03/2013 @ 16:38 [ref: 67546] |
| Bill Helbig berryville, VA | Flew WC135Bs out of KMCC 1977-1981. What a great airplane!! If you could handle 135, you could handle any Boeing airplane. Most interesting missions were the ones we were tasked with in 1979 when something flashed over the South Pacific when we were on a rotater at RJTY (Yakota AB). Ended up flying out of Diego Garcia and Mauritius in search of the remnants of a nuke blast somewhere in the area. Never did find anything but was that an amazing trip!!! We had great flight engineers and SEOs. I miss flying those missions though it did take me away from my family quite a bit. Got the airplane right out of pilot training. Refueling in those airplanes was the most challenging flying I ever did in 37 years of flying!! 12/26/2012 @ 15:40 [ref: 67441] |
| George Kuhn , AZ | The photo's of the WC-135 B,does bring back a lot of memories for me.
The one picture with the tail number 666,is the plane I started on,when I entered the U.S.Air Force.I was at McClellan AFB in the 55th Weather Recon Squadron 1970 thru 1973 10/12/2012 @ 15:01 [ref: 67302] |
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