The Boeing KC-135 Stratotanker: More Than a Tanker

by Robert S. Hopkins III and Robert Rostand

Book Overview

Few would have imagined when "Dix" Loesch and "Tex" Johnston took the KC-135A up for its maiden flight on 31 August 1956 that some 60 years later, it would still be in front-line active service around the world. 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 capable of surviving...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1910809012
• ISBN13: 9781910809013
• Release Date: September 2017
• Publisher: Crecy Publishing
• Length: 384 Pages
• Weight: 3.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 8.6" x 11.0"