Word: kc
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...addition," said McNamara, "we have duplicative facilities which will in the future include the capability of launching each individual Minuteman by a signal from airborne control posts." The mobile control posts are KC-135 jet tankers of the Strategic Air Command which have been converted into communications centers under the control of an Air Force general officer. Such an officer could, from his airborne headquarters, launch the Minuteman flights...
...were never so helpless as that, but an official system, Conelrad (for Control of Electromagnetic Radiation), was set up to foil them. Under Conelrad regulations, all regular broadcasting would go silent during an attack, while stations going on and off the air on two special frequencies, 640 and 1240 kc., would stand ready to give instructions and comfort to the quaking population...
...Conversion of 20 more KC-1355 and four 6-473 to build up the Strategic Air Command's own force of airborne control centers. Since last February, SAC has kept one of three such centers constantly...
...Conversion of three KC-135 turbojet tanker aircraft, stationed at Andrews Air Force Base near Washington, to provide similar command centers aloft...
When cooperation is given any more, strings of steel are attached. B-52s and KC-135s will be filmed for Universal-International's A Gathering of Eagles, but the planes' crews must be "in training" at the time. And Columbia's Flight from Ashiya (about the Air Rescue Service) has been bowdlerized at Pentagon insistence. In the original script, a paramedic says to an uncomprehending Arab girl: "I bet you'd be great in the sack...