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KC-135 SUPPORT
The KC-135 Stratotanker is an aerial refueling tanker
aircraft. It has been in service since 1957, and was
based upon the commercial Boeing B707. Four turbofans,
mounted under 35-degree swept wings, power the KC-135 to
takeoffs at gross weights up to 322,500 pounds. Nearly all
internal fuel (209,000 pounds - 31,000 US gallons) can be
pumped through the tanker's flying boom, the KC-135's
primary fuel transfer method, or special shuttlecock-shaped
drogue, attached to and trailing behind the flying boom.
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E-3 SUPPORT
The Boeing E-3 Sentry is a military airborne warning
and control system (AWACS) aircraft that provides
all-weather surveillance, command, control and
communications. The E-3 Sentry is also a modified
Boeing 707-320B advanced commercial airframe. The
rotating Pulse Doppler radar dome of 30 feet in diameter
is help 14 feet above the fuselage by two struts, and can
moniter aircraft up to 400 miles away.
MHD supplies Spares and manages Repair and Overhaul for
the major airframe rotables including the undercarriage,
instruments, pumps, hydraulics and valves.
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