Well, I was at least right about the KC part. :-)
They say the second thing that goes with age is memory. I can't remember what
the first one is.
Walt
--
"Anything more than 500 yards from
the car just isn't photogenic." --
Edward Weston
-------------- Original message ----------------------
From: "Scott Gomez" <scott@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>
> Walt,
>
> Those are KC-97s, and by the fact that I see a wing tank on at least
> one, I'd go so far as to say they are KC-97Gs. They are the tanker
> variant of the C-97 Stratofreighter, a postwar transport based on the
> B-29 bomber. NYANG flew C-97s from the airport about 2 miles from where
> I lived in the 60s. I rode one myself.
>
> Ref: http://www.boeing.com/history/boeing/c97.html
>
> ---
> Scott Gomez
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Walt Wayman [mailto:hiwayman@xxxxxxx]
> Subject: [OM] Re: #225
>
> Chris,
>
> I think the tanker was a KC135, but I'm not positive. I'm pretty sure
> it was a KC130-something. Can you tell from this?
>
> http://home.att.net/~hiwayman/wsb/html/view.cgi-photo.html--SiteID-79341
> 7.html
>
> I had several hundred shots taken on joy rides with the USAF back in the
> early to mid '60s, but 95 percent of everything I shot before August of
> 1967 was lost in a house fire. The half dozen shots of this type I have
> left were at the tail end of a roll of other stuff that didn't get
> incinerated.
>
> Walt
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