Strap a 'T' tail & 4 engines on the rear, I might nearly agreejonesey2k wrote:Hate to say it but that looks nice...
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Strap a 'T' tail & 4 engines on the rear, I might nearly agreejonesey2k wrote:Hate to say it but that looks nice...
Cant it be the KC-330B and KC-330CTonks wrote:Indeed, the RAAF version is the KC-30 (actually the KC-30A) ours are destined to be KC-30Bs and Cs (2 hose and 3 hose, but can't remember which way though )...
Have to say I think it looks good as well...
Tonks
Dont wanna knowGarry Russell wrote:Ah.....Dave slipped one in there
C-43, C-44
The designations C-43 and C-44 were skipped to avoid potential confusion with the existing T/CT-43 and T-44 designators. According to unofficial information from DOD, there is an informal policy in effect to avoid duplication of "well-known" numbers. However, C-45 was not skipped (KC-45A is the official MDS for the KC-X tanker program), and it remains unclear why T-45 should be any less "well-known" than T-43 and -44. One possible explanation is that both the T-43 (Boeing 707) and T-44 (Raytheon/Beech King Air) are transport-type airframes (the T-45 is a two-seat jet), and that it was therefore avoided to assign numbers 43 and 44 to other transport aircraft as well.
C-30
The designation C-30 was never officially assigned. It was reserved (most probably after a verbal request at some time in the 1988/89 time frame) for the USAF office with symbol "SAF/AQQX" (SAF/AQQ is the office symbol for the Assistant Secretary of the Air Force (Acquisition), Directorate of Global Reach; AQQX designates the Programs, Budget & Congressional Division of AQQ). Nomenclature records do not contain any written request, let alone official allocation of the C-30 designation. Neither are there any releasable records on "C-30" at SAF/AQQX. The reservation was most likely dropped, but usage for a classified purpose can't be ruled out completely.
The "KC-30" label, which is used by Northrop Grumman for their proposed tanker version of the EADS/Airbus A330, is not an official DOD designation. If the "KC-30" is indeed procured by the U.S. Air Force, it will almost certainly by designated as KC-45A, because that MDS has been officially reserved for the USAF's tanker replacement program ("KC-X").
Both the K3 and K4 have a limited number of pax seats up the front (IIRC 18 on the K3, a few more on the K4, which can also have an aeromed fit).DaveB wrote:Slipped one in?? That's not like me at all
My memory is cr@p these days but as far as I can establish from what's left of it.. the K3's, having the cargo door had internal tanks fitted which was not possible on the K4 (ex BOAC/BA) without compromising the fuselage integrity. So.. I don't think (a tentative think) the K3's have any pax capacity at all. However, the K4 does as it's basically a stripped (for the most part) ex-BA Super which uses it's own capacity to refuel other aircraft as does the C1K. While having seen inside both types, I can't remember for the life of me which one had a handful of pax seats up front but I think it was the K4 50/50