There’s a refueling group at MacDill AFB here in Tampa that is all KC-135s, so I see them daily out of my office window as they take off and land.
I was thinking more of the commercial versions, since they’re far rarer. Here’s a picture of my youngest son in the “boomer’s” cradle in a KC-135. Don’t ask how I got it: -D > On Jan 5, 2020, at 12:00 AM, OK Don via Mercedes <mercedes@okiebenz.com> > wrote: > > The 707's are still flying - over my house almost everyday, though they are > called KC-135's now. My son, the engineer, over see's repairs on the fleet > at Tinker AFB now. They can make any part they need to keep them in the > air. It's quite the operation. I forget the frequency, but they come into > Tinker on a schedule, get stripped down to the bare metal, gone over with a > fine toothed comb, all repairs made (mostly corrosion - turns out spot > welds are not a good idea for aluminum skins), and sent back into duty. > > On Sat, Jan 4, 2020 at 5:53 PM Dan Penoff via Mercedes < > mercedes@okiebenz.com> wrote: > >> >> I can recall seeing 707s and even the occasional DC-3 there. I’m sure the >> DC-3s are long gone, but I’ll bet there’s still a bunch of old stuff down >> there. >> >> -D >> >> >>> On Jan 4, 2020, at 6:15 PM, Peter Frederick via Mercedes < >> mercedes@okiebenz.com> wrote: >>> >>> Eventually the fuselage or wings will get enough cracks they aren't >> economic to repair as the pressurization cycles accumulate. At some point >> the risk of massive failure will outweigh the cost to replace, and they >> will be broken up. >>> >>> Very few DC-8 or 707's left, ditto for 727's and early model 737's. >> They have all exceeded their economic life, and were broken up for the >> aluminum. I believe there are two complete Lockheed Super Constellations >> left -- one in Australia and The Columbine, Eisenhower's AF1 that was still >> in flying condition in the early 2000's at the Air Force Museum in Dayton, >> OH. >> >> >> >> _______________________________________ >> http://www.okiebenz.com >> >> To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ >> >> To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: >> http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com >> >> > > -- > OK Don > > "Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to > pause and reflect." Mark Twain > > "There are three kinds of men: The ones that learns by reading. The few who > learn by observation. The rest of them have to pee on the electric fence > for themselves." > > WILL ROGERS, *The Manly Wisdom of Will Rogers* > 2013 F150, 18 mpg > 2017 Subaru Legacy, 30 mpg > 1957 C182A, 12 mpg - but at 150 mph! > _______________________________________ > http://www.okiebenz.com > > To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ > > To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: > http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com > _______________________________________ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
