Mar 19, 2020 · Trying to determine wheel well colors for early C/KC-135 aircraft from initial unpainted birds in the 50's and 60's to coroguard painted one's. Were they unpainted or same silver as coroguard. I'm pretty sure they weren't white until they got the aircraft grey paint.

Nov 16, 2017 · What would be the correct color for the main wheel wells of a 1970/1980s era KC-135, painted in the overall Air Defence Command Grey color scheme? Thanks...

The Boeing KC-135 Stratotanker is an American military aerial refueling tanker aircraft that was developed from the Boeing 367-80 prototype, alongside the Boeing 707 airliner. It has a narrower fuselage and is shorter than the 707.

Jan 23, 2023 · For an RC-135D I’d probably go with chromate green. Actually I’d close up the main gear doors. I was a KC-135A Crew Chief, 1966 - 1970 and the wheel wells on my bird were yellow zinc chromate. She had just came out of Depot when I picked her up.

KC-135 pilots control the fuel transfer operation through use of the fuel panel on the cockpit aisle stand. In addition to a broad yellow alignment stripe on the belly of the tanker, a set of pilot director lights are installed aft of the nose gear wheel well which instruct the receiver pilot to move UP, DN, FWD, AFT.

Apr 10, 2021 · The forward trunnion bearing of the main landing gear is usually in the wing rear spar, and the aft trunnion is in the auxiliary spar. The wheel well is therefor behind the wing centre box.

Aug 3, 2012 · Main landing gear doors, hatches, wheel well fairings, cove lip doors, and in-flight refueling doors are just a few of the many Management of Items Subject to Repair end items repaired by shop employees.

You have to go into the wheel well to install the nose gear pin and to perform inspections. If the hydraulic system that the gears are tied to is turned on, whoever is in the wheel well wouldn’t have enough time to react and would be seriously hurt or killed.

Jan 11, 2013 · - the Revell -135 is 3/4 of an inch too long between the aft edge of the wheel well to the front edge of the boom pod. - And yes, as said else where the boom pod is about twice as fat as it should be.

Except for the area under the cockpit, surrounding the nose wheel well and the boomers pod the lower lobes of the -135, which contain the fuel cells, are unpresurized. The Revell ancient kit that Da Boss reviewed this week as an E-3 is a 707-100. The tanker kit only has a boom pod added.