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... I trained everybody I flew with. '''Johnson:''' Part of your training, also, was in the KC-135. How did training in that vehicle compare with your first experience with weightlessness? '''Bolden ... you panicked, or if you didn’t do it right. The good thing about the KC-135 was it was generally nominal. Unlike everything else in training, they didn’t try ... know you’ve got to do this, then it won’t do that. Flying the KC-135 for somebody like me, the nose starts doing this gestures with tight circular hand ...

... that simulates launch to see if it passes the launch test. '''Johnson:''' You mentioned the KC-135 in testing the food, and then you mentioned the open containers. Did you yourself ever fly on the KC-135, or how were those tests conducted? And were all foods, or different—every time you came up with a different container or packaging, was that always tested on the KC-135 first? '''Bourland:''' Most of the time we tested all the containers. Then sometimes we ...

... , NASA announced. Winglets (2.7m 9ft -long airfoil sections attached to the wingtips of a KC-135 aircraft) could improve performance in cruise flight by approximately 8%, for an annual fuel ... winglets between flights would demonstrate their effectiveness at various positions. After installation of recorders, the KC-135 would make the first flights in a joint NASA-USAF program scheduled after winglet ...

... them to us. Then in 1973 we inherited another Air Force program, the Zero-G KC-135, which the Air Force had been running at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base . They ... program run by the Air Force at Wright-Patterson that started in 1960 with the KC-135. Originally it was run with Convair, I think, 340 airplanes and T-29s, the ... , which was NASA 930, I think, we retired it in probably '94 and got another KC from the Air Force. That's NASA 931. I think we did pretty well, because ...

... mentioned the spinning chair. Did you also train on the KC-135 for that? '''Brandenstein:''' Oh, yes, we went on the KC-135. It never bothered me. That was great. We went ... , because you can't really train for that on Earth, because you get in the KC-135 or the zero-g airplane, you get a couple of seconds, but it's ...

... coverage of the standard frequency and time transmissions of NBS stations WWVB (60 kc/s) and WWVL (20 kc/s). Both WWVB and WWVL have transmitted for several years from sites near ...

... checkout in addition to actual launching operation. ''(NASA Release 65-237)'' NASA was acquiring eight KC-135 jet transports and three ships to help maintain communications during Apollo moon flights. In ... fleet were being remodeled for support of the Apollo lunar mission's reentry phase. The KC-135's would be used during reentry to combat the effects of the plasma sheath ...

... engineers successfully completed week-long testing of Skylab program hardware in simulated weightlessness aboard USAF KC-135 four-engine-jet research aircraft. Tests included operation of flight-configuration doors for film ... characteristics of lunar soil and how lunar roving vehicle LRV wheels would of on moon. KC-135 was flown in parabolas, with 30 secs of weightlessness achieved on each parabola in ...

... had the 747 without the orbiter flying behind two tanker aircraft-first a KC-135 and then a KC-10. Heavy turbulence encountered in the vortices of the tanker aircraft had produced ...

... myself to undo my seatbelt. It was really weird. '''Wright:''' A little different from the KC-135. '''Cleave:''' Very, very different. Yes. '''Wright:''' On the experiments, the process that you did ... doing it? '''Cleave:''' It really wasn’t that much different. I’ve flown on a KC with these guys, and this whole experiment was pretty automated. It was mostly inputting data ...

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