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Mike,

I've heard it was a full re-skin on the UPS DC-8's, but I wouldn't bet my beer money on it.

Isn't it funny how these threads get turned around? This thing started out as a KC-135 FE question & now it's about UPS & their DC-8's!

Don R.

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From my time in SAC on 135s I seem to remember being told the 135 was smaller in diameter and had shorter wings. (There was supposed to be a 135 in the fleet that had one 707 wing due to an "expedient repair"). As far as the (insert number) fasteners and awkward servicing, as a Radar troop I used to hate changing the APN 69, RT 204 in the tail compartment.....it was on a shelf up near the top of the fuselage, on the other side of the control cables and think it weighed 77 lbs and was shaped like an unweildy trashcan; after you got it out of there you had to lower it through the access panel you almost didn't fit through.

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