767 AST US Presidential Fleet In the late 1930's Japanese

In the late 1930's Japanese forces were inflicting heavy losses on the Chinese

who loved air racing

it was initially equipped with a Lewis gun but was upgraded to a synchronized Vickers machine gun

boosting it to over 62 miles (100 kilometers) above the surface of the Earth

and the assigned mission are the same

767 AST US Presidential Fleet In the late 1930's Japanese767 test airplane model. The Airborne Optical Adjunct (AOA) was built from the prototype 767 200. The aircraft was later renamed the Airborne Surveillance Testbed (AST). Modifications to the aircraft included a large "cupola" or hump which ran along the top of the aircraft from above the cockpit to just behind the trailing edge of the wings. Inside the cupola was a suite of infrared seekers that were used to track theater ballistic missile launches in