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Out Now---- JP Airline Fleets 2011/2012

 

Out now, order your copy now  JP airline fleets 2011/12

The latest edition provides full details of more than 60,000 aircraft and some 6,000 commercial and government operators worldwide. There is a wealth of data on each aircraft down to individual registration/serial number.

Also new for this year are Hexcodes for individual aircraft, this will replace the Selcal field.

Available in print, CD and print/CD combination.

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As well as the 800-page print directory, the information is also available as a PDF on CD or as a regular data feed for business users:

 

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"Looking Glass"
posted by PalmsRick
Mon, Feb 16 2009
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The Boeing E-6 Mercury operates as an airborne command post and communications center, relaying instructions from the National Command Authority. Its role in relaying to the fleet ballistic missile submarines gives one of its missions the acronym TACAMO ("Take Charge and Move Out"). Codenamed Looking Glass, it is USSTRATCOM's Airborne Command Post, designed to take over in case NORAD's Cheyenne Mountain Operations Center is destroyed or incapable of communicating with strategic forces. The term 'looking glass' means the same as 'mirror', and is used because it "mirrors" the abilities of Cheyenne Mountain to control nuclear forces. During the later years of the Cold War, when Cheyenne Mountain became vulnerable to a Soviet first strike, Looking Glass was said to be airborne 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, with one plane taking off to replace another landing. Will Rogers World Airport Oklahoma City, OK

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