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>PlaneFag Reports - Up from STRATCOM HQ Offutt AFB is USAF Boeing WC-135 constant phoenix 64-14836. Call sign OLIVE36.
Landed in Qatar yesterday. Squawk 7507.
The Constant Phoenix's modifications are primarily related to the aircraft's on-board atmospheric collection suite, which allows the mission crew to detect radioactive debris "clouds" in real time. The aircraft is equipped with external flow-through devices to collect particulates on filter paper and a compressor system for whole air samples collected in high-pressure holding spheres. Despite the different designations, both the C- and W-models carry the same mission equipment (with a front-end avionics suite similar to the RC-135V and W aircraft).
The interior seats 33 people, including the cockpit crew, maintenance personnel, and special equipment operators from the Air Force Technical Applications Center. On operational sorties, the crew is minimized to just pilots, navigator, and special-equipment operators, to reduce radiation exposure to mission-essential personnel only.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boeing_WC-135_Constant_Phoenix
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