NASA's 'Spooky Plane' Is On The Way Back To The US After Its Afghanistan Mission

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by Robert Johnson @ Military & Defense blog provided this:

The plane in the picture above is a Martin RB-57F Canberra, a design that's been around for about 50 years. The Air Force has handed its Canberras off to NASA and whether NASA is also using them for weather surveillance remains unclear, but Dave's "Spooky Plane" in the title implies he knows something we don't.

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I swear I saw one of these taking off from Nellis Air Force Base the other day as my wife and I were going out to the commissary. It had to be an older aircraft as a lot of black exhaust came out of it and the wings sure looked like this one's. But, I guess I should get used to it as we see a lot of different aircraft flying out of there. Watching a B-17 taking off makes one wonder how the blasted things manage to get off the ground.