Boeing Kc-135 Stratotanker: More Than Just a Tanker (Aerofax Series) [Paperback]

Robert S. Hopkins III (Author)

Book Description

Series: Aerofax Series | Publication Date: July 1998

These volumes are packed with authoritative text, detailed photographs & drawings.

Product Details

• Paperback: 224 pages
• Publisher: Voyageur Press (MN) (July 1998)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1857800699
• ISBN-13: 978-1857800692
• Product Dimensions: 11 x 8.5 x 0.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2.1 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 4.9 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (11 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,692,855 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Discover books, learn about writers, read author blogs, and more.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

16 of 16 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Boeing KC-135 - More Than Just A Tanker, March 11, 2000

By 

Michael D. Derry (Omaha, NE United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Boeing Kc-135 Stratotanker: More Than Just a Tanker (Aerofax Series) (Paperback)

I recently completed reading Dr. Hopkin's excellent book on an unbelievable aircraft. The only thing that the C-135 series of aircraft didn't do was air-to-air combat! The book is an exhaustive, highly-detailed history of every model of aircraft developed from the basic KC-135 Stratotanker, covering the development history of each mission type (tanker, transport, reconnaissance, etc.) and also each specific aircraft modified for its particular purpose. I flew on 3 different models of the RC-135 series for 3 years while in the Air Force and was amazed at how many previous reconnaissance variants preceeded the common types used today. I recommend this book for any military aviation buff, but also for anyone who was privileged to have been a crewmember on such a versatile aircraft over the last 40+ years. The many previously-unpublished photographs nicely compliment the very informative text.

7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars THE book on the C-135 family!, October 13, 1999

By 

Jennings R. Heilig ([e-mail]) (Blacksburg, Virginia) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Boeing Kc-135 Stratotanker: More Than Just a Tanker (Aerofax Series) (Paperback)

If you have even the remotest interest in Boeing's fabulous C-135 family, you have to get this book. Bob Hopkins' extensive research into the history of this huge family of aircraft really shows. It covers the history, development, employment, and the multitudinous variants, sub-variants, and sub-sub-variants in great, readable, detail. The selection of photographs is outstanding, although the great majority are in black & white. Separate sections cover the major functional families such as transports, recon aircraft, tankers, testbeds, and command posts. Within each section is a description of each variant, a little about its history, and then a complete history of each individual airframe which carried the MDS. Appendices cover each and every airframe and its history (through the time of publication), leaving few questions unanswered. The book could easily have been five times as long as it is and still have only scratched the surface of detailing the exploits of the C-135 family. However, this volume should serve all but the most ardent fanatic perfectly.

6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent Book!, March 11, 2000

By 

Robert Sanchez (Edwards AFB, California) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Boeing Kc-135 Stratotanker: More Than Just a Tanker (Aerofax Series) (Paperback)

As a current aircrew member on the Advanced Range Instrumentation Aircraft, I am always looking for anything out there with the history of our airframes. This book is EXCELLENT. The data is accurate and even though you might think you have seen or heard of every variant of the 135 out there, after reading this book you'll soon discover there are a lot more. I highly recommend this book as the benchmark 135 book on the market