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From: jtchew@csa3.lbl.gov
Newsgroups: sci.military
Subject: Support for 707 variants (was Re: Air Superiority B-52?)
Summary: Can third parties do it?
Message-ID: <1991Jun15.021409.29694@amd.com>
Date: 14 Jun 91 15:13:12 GMT
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From: jtchew@csa3.lbl.gov


>I recall hearing that there was concern about using old airframes {for
>such purposes as JSTARS and AWACS} if Boeing did indeed shut down the 
>707 production line {which they have indeed done}.

Hmm.  I thought a whole cottage industry had grown up around used 707s 
(ditto DC-8s).  Do their capabilities extend only to hush kits, or 
do some of them have the engineering horsepower to cope with something 
that differs more dramatically from a factory 707?

--Joe