The Boeing EC-135N Apollo/Range Instrumentation Aircraft (A/RIA) with its distinctive "droop snoot" radome housing a large parabolic antenna. The aircraft was intended as a mobile tracking and telemetry platform to support the Apollo space program.
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Beechcraft RC-12 Guardrail - photos
Concorde jet droop nose - GIF, video, and photo
Redesigned NASA door after Apollo 1 fire - GIF
Wernher von Braun and the Saturn V - photo
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