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From: bcstec!shuksan!major@uunet.UU.NET (Mike Schmitt)
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Subject: Re: Support for 707 variants
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Date: 17 Jun 91 17:45:19 GMT
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From: bcstec!shuksan!major@uunet.UU.NET (Mike Schmitt)


jtchew@csa3.lbl.gov writes:
> 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?
 
These modified 707s are approved 'militarized' versions.  Fully compliant 
with all the appropriate MILSTD (Military Standards).  Obviously, using any
other airframe (757, 767, 747) the cost of 'militarizing' would almost be
prohibitive.  

mike