The plane was recognizable for the orange and black Princeton colors and “New Jersey” insignia emblazoned on its tail.
disappeared into the sky over McGuire Air Force Base a final time last month, as the iconic military refueling plane flew off for another duty station to continue its mission of making sure fighter jets don’t run out of gas.
The Stratotank was given a proper military send-off, with the commander of the New Jersey Air National Guard Brigadier Gen. Patrick M. Kennedy, leading the ceremony. Members of the 108th Refueling Wing, which maintained the flying tiger, gathered on the tarmac for a final salute, and later posted Built in 1960, the plane dubbed the “flying tiger” is the last of a group of KC-135 model of Stratotanks that was attached to the 108th Refueling Wing of the New Jersey Air National Guard at Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst. The Stratotank, which Lawlor described as a “workhorse,” has a boom that attaches a line to another plane for refueling in the air, a neat maneuver at 20,000 feet when you’re flying at 300 knots .
Lewis didn’t see the final flight of the KC-135 out of McGuire, but learned about it later reading the chatter online. He said at one time, McGuire was host to about 20 KC-135s. “Some of been deployed elsewhere and others have gone to the boneyard,” he said., the aerial equivalent of taking a bow before heading off to Maine.
A member of the Class of 1914, Baker’s speed and agility on the ice made national headlines during hockey’s early days. His death in a crash during an ill-fated “final flight” in France six weeks after the war ended made him a national hero.After graduating from Princeton, Baker took a job on Wall Street, but kept making headlines playing amateur hockey. But the Wall Street job bored him, so in 1916 Baker joined the U.S. Army Signal Corps to train to become one of the first fighter pilots.
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