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05-28-2008 07:26 AM #1
The ADA Bird ...........
.... thought I'd show y'all a picture of tail number 23583 ........... the ADA Bird (Airborne Data Automation) ............... this was the Boeing EC-135A Looking Glass Airborne Command Post aircraft I served on for 14 months from May 1970 to July 1971 ............... the ADA bird was the first Looking Glass with the SAC real time system computer on board ................. we were testing the system back then .............. my job on board was the computer operator ...... she's shown on the hardstand at Offutt AFB in Bellevue, Nebraska during a "Buckskin Rider" exercise
Loved that plane .............. she took us all over the world
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