RC-135 Cobra Ball CFM enginesBoeing RC 135 Cobra Ball airplane model. The COBRA BALL is an Air Force airborne intelligence platform (RC 135) which carries infrared telescopes for tracking ballistic missile tests at long range. The COBRA BALL aircraft, operating out of Eielson AFB AK, allow the United States to monitor every reentry vehicle flown from Russian test ranges, to determine the capabilities of each Russian missile, new or old. Mahogany Wood. Scale: 1 100. Wingspan 16

which gave the pilot improved rearward vision

providing seven- or eight- abreast seating with two aisles

a number of German aircraft manufacturing companies were experimenting with planes that could fulfill these dive bomb attacks

It was expected to be a highly maneuverable interceptor

remote classification/detection

T-6A Texan II USAF airplane model

Jack Cones

" dropped an atomic bomb on Hiroshima

Lockheed TV-2 Shooting Star Navy airplane model

This new variant started off as a simple stretch over the 737-200 but Boeing decided to adopt the CFM International CFM56 high bypass turbofan (jointly developed by General Electric and SNECMA) to reduce fuel consumption and comply with the then proposed International Civil Aviation Organization Stage 3 noise limits

but this was a big problem and eventually it had to be discarded in favor of the ordinary turrets or hand-aimed guns

000 pounds more payload and fly 850 miles farther