Here is Pat Rainwater (I'm not making this up), Miss Lockheed-Georgia, showing why weather reconnaissance acquired the WB-47E.  These two foils for collecting particulate debris from nuclear tests made up just part of the atmospheric sampling suite. 

This photo was taken in 1963 at the Lockheed-Georgia plant in Marietta, GA shortly after the first ex-SAC B-47 had completed modification and was cleared for its acceptance flight. 

Hand-me-downs again....


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