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EC-135 Looking Glass Model

Boeing EC135 Looking Glass Presidential Wood Model Airplane

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EC-135 Looking Glass Model

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Museum quality EC-135C Looking Glass mahogany model airplane, perfect gift for pilots and collectors.

Model Airplane: EC-135C Looking Glass Aircraft
Wingspan: 16"
Fuselage Length: 16.5"
Scale: 1/100
Material: Mahogany wood
Manufacturer: Boeing
Engine: Jet - Turbojet
Branch: United States Air Force (USAF)

Model Airplane Factory offers you this elegant Boeing EC135 Looking Glass display wood model airplane made from finest kiln-dried mahogany wood. Every Boeing EC135 Looking Glass aircraft display wooden is a work of art. The process starts from carving the fuselage and the intakes on the fuselage sides to the EC135 Looking Glass cruciform tail design, to the assembly and final polishing of the EC135 Looking Glass aircraft display. From raw kiln-dried mahogany wood, it undergoes processes to accomplish a precise Looking Glass EC135 plane display; from carving, sanding, coating, painting and detailing to a creatively done wooden replica of the Boeing EC135 Looking Glass. Boeing EC135 Looking Glass model display aircraft wooden is hand carved from solid mahogany and completely hand painted. Looking Glass EC135 model aircraft display includes hand-made armaments to represent real weapon loads based on the original Looking Glass EC-135.

Operation Looking Glass provided at least 11 EC-135C command post aircraft to the Commander in Chief Strategic Air Command (CINCSAC), which were based at Offutt AFB, Nebraska. All aircraft have been retired or repurposed.

The United States' nuclear strategy depends on its ability to command, control, and communicate with its nuclear forces under all conditions. An essential element of that ability is Looking Glass; its crew and staff ensure there is always an aircraft ready to direct bombers and missiles from the air should ground-based command centers be destroyed or rendered inoperable. Looking Glass is intended to guarantee that U.S. strategic forces will act only in the manner dictated by the President of the United States. It took the nickname "Looking Glass" because the mission mirrored ground-based command, control, and communications. Besides being the program name, "Looking Glass" is the official name for the C model aircraft. It has a crew of at least 15 including at least one or more general officer.

The now-deactivated Strategic Air Command began the mission on February 3, 1961, using Boeing EC-135 aircraft. From that date an Air Force Looking Glass aircraft was in the air at all times 24 hours a day, 365 days a year, for almost 30 years accumulating more than 281,000 accident-free flying hours. On October 1, 1998 the Navy's E-6 Mercury TACAMO replaced the EC-135C in the Looking Glass mission.