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...from the Asian mainland, 6623 made a rendezvous with a KC-135 tanker, which topped up her tanks for the run over Viet Nam and back. A short time later, Captain Larry Underwood, 27, the electronics warfare officer, detected the first traces of enemy radar bouncing off 6623. Seated at a console behind the flight deck, Underwood began employing a number of top-secret jamming devices to conceal 6623 within its own protective bubble of electronic countermeasures. As the B-52 came within range of surface-to-air missiles, Underwood employed other devices that blocked the missile radar from locking...
...fortunes of celestial mechanics, the eclipse's path will cross Wallop's Island, Va., where NASA scientists will send up 33 probing rockets as the shadow approaches. In addition, several research planes will seek an above-the-weather look at the eclipse; a U.S. Air Force KC-135 will even race the moon's shadow in order to get a few precious extra moments of observation time...
Over the coast that morning in 1966 a U.S. B-52 bomber on a routine nuclear patrol collided with the Strategic Air Command KC-135 tanker that was refueling it. Wreckage rained on Palomares, including three unarmed hydrogen bombs. A fourth bomb fell into the sea. There were no deaths or serious injuries among the villagers, but a U S. airman mumbled in schoolboy Spanish after parachuting to safety: "Ustedes todos muertos [You're all dead]." Because two bombs' casings had cracked, several thousand airmen and sailors spent 44 days carrying away almost six acres of topsoil...
...detailed mission briefing and a long preflight check, we finally took off from Andersen Air Force Base on Guam, leading a "cell" of three planes spaced two miles apart to avoid mid-air collisions. Three hours later, over the Philippines, the green-and-black camouflaged Stratoforts rendezvoused with three KC-135 jet tankers for a 40-minute ballet of mid-air refueling...
WHRB Radio will broadcast the memorial services live beginning at noon today at 550 kc...