Talk:Boeing WC-135 Constant Phoenix

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copy 'n paste from: http://www.af.mil/factsheets/factsheet.asp?fsID=192, copyright?--88.65.40.227 09:07, 14 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

National level consumers

Who are they?--Cancun771 18:11, 16 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Role

The listed role appears to be the role of the OC-135 and not the WC-135, so I'm going to change the role to what it actually appears to be.71.142.235.210 (talk) 10:24, 29 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

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Usage after Chernobyl?

The Constant Phoenix is back in the news, and a lot of the articles (including a number of the sources) mention that it was used after the Chernobyl Disaster. The article doesn't mention it though. Anyone know why, or is it just a simple omission? -LÒÓkingYourBest^(Talk|Edits) 13:50, 3 March 2017 (UTC)[reply]

An editor added a section based on two inline citations from reliable sources about WC-135 monitoring of Europe directly after the Chernobyl incident on 20 October 2017 under the heading "Europe".

I missed this on first reading. We may need to have a separate section talking about use of the WC-135 to monitor radiation from nuclear reactor loss of containment events and other sources.

That would split our "Europe", treating Chernobyl under a new section, "Civilian Nuclear Reactor Events" which would also talk about Fukushima.

The current (2017-18) controversy about elevated Iodine-131 levels in the air over Europe would have its own section, "Monitoring Releases of Uncertain Origin", to give the reader the sense that it's not conclusively regarded the same sort of event as Chernobyl, but was also monitored by WC-135. We may want to talk about the lack of expert consensus about what caused that I-131 release. It would be topical without lending undue weight to the civilian and presumably civilian incidents in the news since 1988.

Comments? loupgarous (talk) 00:20, 25 January 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Should "Constant Phoenix" be on the title?

This article is titled "Boeing WC-135 Constant Phoenix" yet its contents include that of the WC-135B "Stratolifter" as well. As it could be a source of some confusion, would it not be better for the name to be changed to "Boeing WC-135"?

In partial relation to this, three redirects for the WC-135 aircraft exist, but the target page differs for each redirect.

WC-135 - Boeing WC-135 Constant Phoenix
WC-135 Stratolifter - Boeing C-135 Stratolifter
WC-135 Stratotanker - Boeing KC-135 Stratotanker

This situation could be because of this page's title including "Constant Phoenix"--YTRK (talk) 12:51, 13 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Aircraft version in use

Did I understand correctly that only one aircraft is still in operation and if so, which version is it? C or W? Then it could be specified accordingly for the last missions in 2021. Godihrdt (talk) 05:36, 7 August 2021 (UTC)[reply]