The Boeing Kc-135 Stratotanker: Third Edition

by Robert S Hopkins III

This third edition incorporates 64 additional pages of new material, photographs, and tables.

The KC-135A made its maiden flight on 31 August 1956 and was still in front line service some 60 years later. What began as a jet-powered replacement for the KC-97 to refuel Strategic Air Command's growing B-47 and B-52 bomber fleet soon evolved into America's first military heavy jet transport, an airborne command post platform, a testbed that...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1800352646
• ISBN13: 9781800352643
• Release Date: November 2022
• Publisher: Crecy Publishing
• Length: 448 Pages
• Weight: 4.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 8.7" x 11.1"