Airplane Pics

[rondog]

Can't remember if I've posted this here before, but this is what our grandson works on in the Navy, an E6-B Mercury - the "Doomsday Plane". Refurbed and modified Boeing 707's. Primary mission is to be a comm link between submerged nuke subs and land. There's a 5 mile long cable antenna that trails out behind the plane, and a shorter one too. Cody's job is to operate the cable reels & winches, he's also the cook for the 18-man crew.

But these planes also have the capability to launch nuke missiles from land missile sites, as a last-ditch measure if land launch centers were somehow disabled. Extremely low chance of that ever happening, but there it is.