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From: cfiaime@ihnp4.UUCP (Jeff Williams)
Newsgroups: net.aviation
Subject: Re: Re: Re: More on B-1 vs B-52
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Date: Tue, 23-Oct-84 10:56:31 EDT
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Posted: Tue Oct 23 10:56:31 1984
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The military has always used modified commercial aircraft.  The list
is almost endless:
		KC-135, VC-137	=	Boeing 707/720
		C-9, VC-9	=	Mac/Doug DC-9
		T-41		=	Cessna 172
		T-43		=	Boeing 737
		C-54		=	Douglas DC-4
		C-47, C-117	=	Douglas DC-3
		C-118		=	Douglas DC-6
		C-45, AT-11, SNB=	Beech 18
		C-20		=	Gulfstream G-III
		C-21		=	Lear 35
		C-12		=	Beech King Air 200

The list goes on and on and on.  As can be seen, most of these airplanes
are trainers or cargo/transports.  However, in WW2, Lockheed built the
Hudson, which was nothing more than a modified Electra.  (Come to think
of it, the P-3 Orion is also a modified Electra L-188.)

What prompted this list was an idea to use a modified airliner to carry
cruise missiles.  Several years ago there was a proposal to use the C-5,
B-1, 747, and various 707 varients for this role.  It was cheaper to 
modify the B-52 again.  For the most part, the launcher in use for the
cruise missile is the same rotary launcher used for the Short Range Attack
Missile (SRAM).  The biggest mod for the B-52 is a fairing at the wing to
fuselage joint for identification purposes.

			Jeff Williams
			AT&T Bell Laboratories
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