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In this view you can see the HF2 stinger on top of the vertical stabilizer. The HF 1 long wire ran from a standoff just above the "boot" to a pylon forward (roof of Maint) The Low VHF boot is that black patch on the leading edge of the vertical stabilizer. Below that is a stand off to a "short long wire" HF receive antenna that connected on the left side behind the cargo door (About where the blue band of stars would end if projected on up). Those SHF pods are visible here just in front of the horizontal stabilizer. in real life there about 5 foot long. Just for perspective, I think the boot was 12 foot top to bottom. Underneath you can see UHF 3 antenna hooked to a transmitter behind the tac ops that was used by our guys if necessary. There is a blade in front of Maintenance for the front end UHF comms. Just behind the long wire mooring there is a little bump that was the "stellar port" If memory serves it was called an LN-20 and was a very reliable navigation system. Not visible here were a row of tassels on the trailing edge of each wing for static elimination, there were about 5 of them? on each side about a foot apart sound dumb, but they worked. I was on a flight once in the SOJ and we took a lightning strike on the nose radome, A ball of fire rolled down the hallway just behind me, past a sleeping MIMI and then just dissipated. One of the ops was watching out the over wing hatch and said it looked like the wingtip was on fire for a few seconds and then it was gone. This pic doesn't show it but the M had a pod where the boomer could have been, but no boom and no view port. I think some of the earlier planes (121 or 126) may have had a real boom back there. Great link to Shemya and Rivet Amber http://community-2.webtv.net/@HH!B2!E8!1FD8DDA69D60/KingdonAviation/RivetBallAmberShemya |
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