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theducks ([personal profile] theducks) wrote2007-09-22 10:06 pm

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So we're in Singapore. Woo.

Flying out of Perth there was a /VERY/ odd looking aircraft on the runway. I've spent a good 15 minutes searching on wikipedia. I saw a photo of it on there a few weeks ago (if that) and I can't remember what it is.

It's a 4 engined USAF aircraft, some varient of a C-135 (Boeing 707) but it has a HUGE black bulge about 1/3rd of the length of the aircraft, a large black bulge on the front, where the nose should be, and the front half is painted black with a white arrow down the side.

Very odd.

[identity profile] mpfl.livejournal.com 2007-09-22 03:07 pm (UTC)(link)
Could it have been some sort of new-fangled AWACS?

C-130 Spectre Gunship

(Anonymous) 2007-09-22 03:35 pm (UTC)(link)
Was it one of these?

http://www.fas.org/man/dod-101/sys/ac/ac-130.htm

http://www.globalspecialoperations.com/ac130.html

Skippy