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Originally Posted by flybigjet
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 Yokohama AB, they’re have to go to remote parking and have the entire aircraft washed repeatedly with a special solution until it wasn’t “hot” anymore.
Not so sure that was a great job flying those modified sniffer jets.
R.
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The WB-57F (or RB-57F in some versions); almost a rival to the U-2 in altitude capability. Still flying all these years later but flown now by NASA. (Who I believe flies classified missions for the Air Force with the aircraft now and again. Note the small auxiliary jet engines under the wings.)