NASA 747 SP from Cal City
Taken from California City on a walk with my grand daughter. We saw it earlier with the F/A-18 chase airplane in close formation. This was at a slightly lower altitude. This has special instrumentation and stuff in it.
Publius Flavius Vegetius Renatus
"Igitur qui desiderat pacem, praeparet bellum.("Therefore, he who desires peace, let him prepare for war")" from "Epitoma Rei Militaris," by Vegetius (Publius Flavius Vegetius Renatus)
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Cool! Those SP versions always look a bit strange to me :)
The first airliner that could fly LA to Sydney non stop. Almost 40 year old technology. This is the one with the opening in the aft fuselage for instrumentation linking to space research.
It has STUFF in it? Who knew? ;-)s
We can't use the term "Secret Squirrel" anymore. Some of the special electronics and software folks got offended. No sense of humor, sometimes.
Therefore, it is stuff or just that 'tron shit. I am so glad that I am just a Crew Chief.
We can't use the term "Secret Squirrel" anymore.
Hey... I was one of them for a few years, back in the day. I spent about four years with USAF Security Service, the predecessor of USAF Electronic Security Command.
Back before we had all these spiffy spy satellites with the resolution to read license plates from space and intercept emissions of all sorts (not to mention the EC-XXX birds which we had back in the day, too) we had "listening sites" that ringed the periphery of the Ol' Evil Empire. I spent time on two of those... in extreme northern Japan (Wakkanai) and on Turkey's Beautiful Black Sea coast (Sinop, and it really was beautiful). Those were prolly the most interesting two tours in my kinda-sorta-illustrious career.
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