I don't know how close the KC-135 and the 707 are. Yes, the KC-135 engines have been upgraded at least once, and they are talking about doing it again.
On Sun, Jan 5, 2020 at 8:46 AM Peter Frederick via Mercedes < mercedes@okiebenz.com> wrote: > Dredging back into my less and less reliable memory, I don't think a > KC-135 is actually the same as a 707 -- I believe I remember that the 707 > fuselage is wider (and hence a completely different design) and last time I > looked, admittedly many years ago, the engines on the KC-135 had not been > upgraded from JT-75s. Hopefully they have been, as they are pretty > marginal aircraft at low speed with the original engines. > > Last one I saw though was smashed at the end of the runway mimicing a > pile of junk at Andrews nearly 40 years ago. > -- 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
