Tag: Battlefield Airborne Communications Node

NASA’s WB-57F BACN “flying gateway” once again heading to Afghanistan

At the end of last year, we reported about the return of…

Networking From on High: Behind the Scenes of NASA’s Spooky WB-57 Jet

At the beginning of December 2012, The Aviationist profiled the return of…

NASA’s spooky plane on the way back to the U.S. after Tour of Duty in Afghanistan

After completing a BACN deployment at Kandahar Airfield in Afghanistan, one of…

NASA’s WB-57 Battlefield Airborne Communication Node gets new sensors, paint scheme for more clandestine missions

As already explained previously, NASA still operates the last two flying WB-57Fs,…

Photo: NASA WB-57F arriving at Lajes Field, Azores, on the way to another deployment

As explained in a previous post, one of the two NASA's WB-57Fs,…