Boeing EC-135N A/RIA instrumentation aircraft - GIF

The Boeing EC-135N Apollo/Range Instrumentation Aircraft (A/RIA) with its distinctive "droop snoot" radome housing a large parabolic antenna. The aircraft was intended as a mobile tracking and telemetry platform to support the Apollo space program.


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Previously:

https://www.homemadetools.net/forum/...277#post134903
https://www.homemadetools.net/forum/...2981#post97744
https://www.homemadetools.net/forum/...171#post138360
https://www.homemadetools.net/forum/...222#post150001

didn't they nick name that aircraft the Jimmy Durante
Edit, I guess not droop snoot or snoopy nose is the only thing I can find for a nick name of it