Best guess so far is weather research-modified 707. Seen at BED a couple days ago running up on 23.

It almost looks exactly like the E-3 Sentry, but without the huge rotating radar dome on top.

Any chance its a KC135?

Looks like it fits in the "I can tell you, but then I'd have to kill you" file.

Rivet Joint? Are any of those still flying?Boeing RC-135 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

theres no boom

Interesting photo. That it is at Hanscomb Field gives some clues to its purpose, but I can't seem to pin it down.

707 is a good guess, but I think it's a modified C-135 (the original B-717). The fuselage on the 707 is a little longer, and although it's difficult to tell, I think this one is of the C-135 variety.



Not likely. The only KC-135s with the TF-33 engines were KC-135Es, which belonged to Air National Guard units. C-135s and B-707s have the P&W TF-33s shown in this photo.


Actually, it goes like this. If you ask again, I'd have to kill you. If I tell you, I'd have to kill myself.

It's definitely not a Rivet Joint. And, yes, there are a lot of 'em still flying, all over the world, all the time.







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Why, it's an 'expando' of course, just like on a motorhome!

It's an old 707 owned by Lincoln Labs.

It sort of looks like Cobra Ball but the antenna's and radome are quite right.

It's not a C-135 variety, you can tell by the nose gear that it's a 707. It could be a 720 (the chopped down version of the 07). Don't know what this jets used for.