Trip report: Expo 2013, 3 states and the stealth TC

RobertRyan wrote:

Looking Glass Plane

Early Stealth concept from memory, the panels let light through so you would be almost invisible from altitude.

Hi Robert,

No, this was the converted C135 (basically B707) of which there was one aloft 24x7 with a general, staff and communication equipment on board. In the event of a nuclear first strike that took out ground-based command centres this aircraft would act as command and control and could launch a nuclear counter-strike.

Steve.