flyingboom

79 photos tagged flyingboom, from 2 members of Flickr Commons.

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2002

2010

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23_0001168 SDASM Convair Negative from SDASM Archives uploaded July 2023
23_0005147 F-106 Refueling - Air to Air from SDASM Archives uploaded December 2020
image from william blondet who served with the 42 tews and was a pilot of kc-135s and douglas eb-66 destroyer. photos from okinawa in 1972 and karat from SDASM Archives uploaded December 2018
image from william blondet who served with the 42 tews and was a pilot of kc-135s and douglas eb-66 destroyer. photos from okinawa in 1972 and karat from SDASM Archives uploaded December 2018
image from william blondet who served with the 42 tews and was a pilot of kc-135s and douglas eb-66 destroyer. photos from okinawa in 1972 and karat from SDASM Archives uploaded December 2018
image from william blondet who served with the 42 tews and was a pilot of kc-135s and douglas eb-66 destroyer. photos from okinawa in 1972 and karat from SDASM Archives uploaded December 2018
image from william blondet who served with the 42 tews and was a pilot of kc-135s and douglas eb-66 destroyer. photos from okinawa in 1972 and karat from SDASM Archives uploaded December 2018
image from william blondet who served with the 42 tews and was a pilot of kc-135s and douglas eb-66 destroyer. photos from okinawa in 1972 and karat from SDASM Archives uploaded December 2018
image from william blondet who served with the 42 tews and was a pilot of kc-135s and douglas eb-66 destroyer. photos from okinawa in 1972 and karat from SDASM Archives uploaded December 2018
image from william blondet who served with the 42 tews and was a pilot of kc-135s and douglas eb-66 destroyer. photos from okinawa in 1972 and karat from SDASM Archives uploaded December 2018
image from william blondet who served with the 42 tews and was a pilot of kc-135s and douglas eb-66 destroyer. photos from okinawa in 1972 and karat from SDASM Archives uploaded December 2018
image from william blondet who served with the 42 tews and was a pilot of kc-135s and douglas eb-66 destroyer. photos from okinawa in 1972 and karat from SDASM Archives uploaded December 2018
image from william blondet who served with the 42 tews and was a pilot of kc-135s and douglas eb-66 destroyer. photos from okinawa in 1972 and karat from SDASM Archives uploaded December 2018
image from william blondet who served with the 42 tews and was a pilot of kc-135s and douglas eb-66 destroyer. photos from okinawa in 1972 and karat from SDASM Archives uploaded December 2018
image from william blondet who served with the 42 tews and was a pilot of kc-135s and douglas eb-66 destroyer. photos from okinawa in 1972 and karat from SDASM Archives uploaded December 2018

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35mm slide image

from SDASM Archives

TVL1970 said:
The first production Boeing KC-135A Stratotanker, USAF 55-3118 (c/n 17234), at (as the caption says) Hickam Air Force Base, Oahu, Hawaii. By the time this photo was taken, she has been converted into an EC-135K Airborne Command Post (Project Head Dancer). She is still extant, converted back into her KC-135A configuration, at McConnell AFB, Wichita, Kansas.

Atlas Details: F 106 Refuel from KC 135 Tanker Date: 01/29/1968

from SDASM Archives

Andrew Granston said:
Reminds me of the title sequence from "Dr. Strangelove."

Ray Wagner Collection Image

from SDASM Archives

TVL1970 said:
Republic F-105D Thunderchief, USAF Ser. No. 62-4343, refueling from Boeing KC-135A Stratotanker, USAF Ser. No. 62-3532. This F-105D would be lost to 37mm ground fire near Yen Bai, North Vietnam on August 8, 1966. The pilot, Korean War ace (6 aerial victories), Maj. James H. Kasler (1926-2014) safely ejected and was captured by the North Vietnamese. He was subsequently held and tortured until his release on March 4, 1973. See: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_H._Kasler aviation-safety.net/wikibase/wiki.php?id=151772 The KC-135A would be retired to the Davis-Monthan AMARG (AMARC) boneyard on August 5, 1993, where it still sits today (February 2016), used as a source for spare parts for other KC-135s still in operation. Here are two more recent photos of 62-3532 at AMARG by Flickr users Alan Wilson (photo taken on February 9, 2014), and Jason Grant (photo taken January 27, 2013):