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Strange Window On A 707  
User currently offlineJetjack74 From United States, joined Jul 2003, 6371 posts, RR: 51
Posted (3 years 6 months 6 days 23 hours ago) and read 1111 times:		 Support Airliners.net - become a First Class Member!

I know that this is one of the KC-707 refueler's operated by the IIAF, but what is the significance of the elongated window at the rear section of this airplane on each side? It looks like 2 window frames melded together. Was this standard on the tankers ordered by Iran? Strange.

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User currently offlineHAWK21M From India, joined Jan 2001, 25771 posts, RR: 51
Reply 1, posted (3 years 6 months 6 days 22 hours ago) and read 1048 times:


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5th Last Window on the Port side & Last Window on the Starboard side.Good Observation.
I wonder why.
regds
MEL


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User currently offlineOPNLguy From United States, joined Jun 1999, 12599 posts, RR: 75
Reply 2, posted (3 years 6 months 6 days 21 hours ago) and read 1035 times:

I have nothing in fact to base this upon, but my initial thought upon looking at the above photos and noticing the different windows on opposite sides of the windows was that there might have been some type of crewmember station (console?) installed when the aircraft was in military service and that they were staggered at the back of the aircraft.

Could it be that the aircraft, in its former tanker role, also had wing refueling drogues on each side (in addition to the boom on the centerline) and that the large windows on each side were for separate operators to handle drogue ops on their respective sides?


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User currently offlineJetjack74 From United States, joined Jul 2003, 6371 posts, RR: 51
Reply 3, posted (3 years 6 months 6 days 7 hours ago) and read 839 times:		 Support Airliners.net - become a First Class Member!

They were multipoint refuelers with the Beechcraft Wing Ports like the Canadian Armed Forces CC-137.


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