"Steven P. McNicoll"wrote

Bob (not my real pseudonym) wrote:
Also, wasn't part of the reason the USAF scarfed up so many used 707
and 720 airframes back in the '80s was for replacement vertical stabs
for the KC-135s? Or was the folding stab only implemented on the
367-80?


The USAF bought the retired airliners for the engines. The JT3Ds
replaced the J57s in AFRES and ANG KC-135As, converting them to
KC-135Es.

That might have been, but during the early 1980s, I ferried 3-4 B-707s
to the boneyard in Arizona and they were buying ours for the HORIZONAL
stabilizers. Years later they did the engine swaps.

Bob Moore