RIVET JOINT TO FLY FURTHER
U.S. Air Force airborne intelligence gathering will get a boost beginning next year when the first RC-135W Rivet Joint aircraft are reengined with quieter, more fuel-efficient CFM-56 engines at Boeing's Wichita, Kan., facility. So far, the USAF has bought kits for six of the 23 aircraft in the 55th...
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