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Originally Posted by Lady Jane
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Trivia: They used to call this the “Cranberry”.
When I was a kid in Japan in the ‘70’s, they had a few of these with swappable wings- they were VERY long (think: glider).
They would climb super high at max endurance and fly around sampling the air from Soviet nuclear testing.
When they landed at Yokota AB, they’d have to go to remote parking and have the entire aircraft washed repeatedly with a special solution until it wasn’t “hot” (i.e. radioactive) anymore.
Not so sure that was a great job flying those modified sniffer jets.
R.