Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!bonnie.concordia.ca!uunet!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!pacific.mps.ohio-state.edu!linac!att!cbnews!cbnews!military From: norton@manta.nosc.mil (LT Scott A. Norton, USN) Newsgroups: sci.military Subject: Re: Support for 707 variants Message-ID: <1991Jun20.015201.27566@cbnews.cb.att.com> Date: 20 Jun 91 01:52:01 GMT References: <1991Jun14.080046.20180@amd.com> <1991Jun15.021409.29694@amd.com> <1991Jun18.074226.14550@amd.com> Sender: military@cbnews.cb.att.com (william.a.thacker) Organization: Space & Naval Warfare Systems Command Lines: 18 Approved: military@att.att.com From: norton@manta.nosc.mil (LT Scott A. Norton, USN) In article <1991Jun18.074226.14550@amd.com> bcstec!shuksan!major@uunet.UU.NET (Mike Schmitt) writes: >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, [...] >These modified 707s are approved 'militarized' versions. [...] I noticed that, in their two prototype Joint STARS aircraft, Grumman took used 707s, and _removed_ the hush kits, in order to militarize them. Some people thought this level of detail was not needed in a prototype. But thhen the aircraft were sent to the Gulf. Scott Norton