In 1953, the jet age came to Davis-Monthan when SAC units on the base converted to the new Boeing B-47 Stratojet.

It flies converted Boeing 747-400s ( known as 747-400SFs or − 400BCFs ) to the Middle East, Far East and McDonnell Douglas MD-11Fs to destinations in Europe, the Americas, and Africa.

The wing was not tactically operational 11 March – 15 September 1963, while the 2nd Bombardment Squadron converted to Boeing B-52B bombers and KC-135 jet tankers replaced the KC-97s.

In 1941 longer range PBY Catalinas, Boeing 314As ( and later converted Short Sunderlands ) were introduced to guarantee non-stop Lisbon to Bathurst sectors ( thus eliminating the need to refuel at Las Palmas ).

In July 2010 Boeing unveiled its hydrogen powered Phantom Eye UAV, powered by two Ford internal combustion engines that have been converted to run on hydrogen.

DHL G-BIKC: ex British Airways Boeing 757, converted to cargo type in 2001-Landing at Madrid Airport ( Spain )-Old DHL color scheme and logo.

Eventually the 48 Boeing 757-200 airplanes were converted to include 26 first class seats and repainted with Delta colors.

Simultaneously, new Boeing 737-800s were leased to provide the passenger service of the converted Boeing 727s.

* Tanker Transport Services Consortium ( TTSC ) offered converted British Airways Boeing 767s:

The airline was renamed Air India Regional post-merger, its ageing fleet of Boeing 737-200 / Adv's were converted to freighters for the new Air India Cargo.

One of three 707-153s bought " off-the-shelf " and converted to military use, this aircraft was completed as a VC-137A by Boeing Aircraft of Seattle, Washington on April 7, 1959.

The wing converted to the sleek new Boeing B-47 Stratojet in 1953 and traded in its KB-29 tankers for the upgraded Boeing KC-97 Stratotanker.

More recent projects include a variety of passenger to tanker and freighter aircraft conversions, together with the L-1011 converted as a launch vehicle for satellite delivery for Orbital Sciences and production of long range fuel tanks for Boeing 747-400ER and Boeing 777-200LR aircraft, as well as for the P-8A Multi-Mission Maritime Aircraft.

* Swiftair has selected the Boeing 737-300F ( converted freighter ) from Bedek Aviation ( Israel Aerospace Industries ) as the basis of its future European freighter fleet.

The plan was initially met with optimism by Jacksonville Mayor John Peyton, even though Cecil Field had already been converted into a joint civil-military airport with helicopter operations by the U. S. Coast Guard and the Florida Army National Guard and an associated commerce park dominated by major aerospace firms such as Northrop Grumman and Boeing performing major maintenance and overhaul work on a variety of military jet aircraft.

Brainiac yanks Luthor deep into the recesses of the Fortress to be converted surgically into a Superman Robot, claiming that Lex would convince Superman to commit suicide in less than fourteen minutes.

One of these was later converted to the XB-38 Flying Fortress.

Several B-17s were converted to long-range photographic reconnaissance aircraft, designated F-9 Flying Fortress.

Nine Mk II Colossi were built ( The Mk I was converted to a Mk II making ten machines in total ).

* 01-GH-2006 Princess Margaret, 1968 originally the prototype converted to Mk. III specification in 1979

* 02-GH-2004 Swift converted to Mk. II specification for February 1973, broken up in 2004 at the Hovercraft Museum

* 03-GH-2005 Sure 1968, converted to Mk. II specification in 1972, broken up in 1983 for spares

* 04-GH-2007 Princess Anne converted to Mk. III specification in 1978

* 05-GH-2008 Sir Christopher 1972, converted to Mk. II specification in 1974, broken up 1998 for spares

: In 1967 – 1968 a Chipmunk Mk 22A was converted, tested and flown by Hants and Sussex Aviation.

The basic, unmodified gun was known in British service as " Ordnance, QF, 75mm Mk 1 ", although many of the guns were issued to units on converted or updated mountings.

Golden State Arms Co. imported huge numbers of SMLE Mk III * and Lee-Enfield No. 4 rifles and converted them to civilian versions of the No. 5 Mk I and general sporting rifles for the hunting and recreational shooting markets in the US, marketing them as " Santa Fe Jungle Carbine " rifles and " Santa Fe Mountaineer " rifles, amongst other names.

The Mk 3 was so much more powerful than the Mk 1 and Mk 2 that the earlier designs were removed from service as soon as new Mk 3s arrived, and the older tanks were then either converted into the Centurion ARV Mark 1 armoured recovery vehicle for REME use or upgraded to Mk 3 standards.

The De Lisle was based on a Short, Magazine, Lee-Enfield Mk III * converted to. 45 ACP by modifying the receiver, altering the bolt / bolthead, replacing the barrel with a modified Thompson submachine gun barrel, and using modified magazines from the M1911 pistol.

By 1943 the squadron had been fully converted to Hurricane Mk Is and in April-May 1943 it moved from Kenya to Egypt, where it was re-equipped with Hurricane Mk IIBs.

The squadron converted to Blenheim Mk Vs in August 1942, in preparation for combat in Africa.

All of the Monitors were converted from World War II 56 ' long all steel Landing Craft Mechanized ( LCMs ) Mk 6's.

In addition, they have been converted to Zen Buddhism, with its glorification of all that is `` natural '' and mysteriously alive, the sense that everything in the world is flowing.

In order to save the mystery story, they have converted the private detective into an organization man.

Studies of the intensity data indicate that they may be converted to approximate transition probabilities.

For use in formulas, fractions should be converted to their decimal equivalents.

The formula, with the fractions converted to decimals, becomes Af.

However, the displacement of the cylinder can be converted to cubic centimeters.

Any fraction of an inch involved in the measurement must be converted to a decimal equivalent to simplify the mathematics.

After the Turks conquered the city in 1453 they converted it to a mosque, adding the stubby minarets.

There have been many extremely competent men who have been converted into very incompetent managers or submerged in paper work, to their own and the public's dissatisfaction and loss.

`` Dearly beloved '', he preached, `` unless you repent of your sins in a measure, and become converted to a degree, you will, I regret to say, be damned to a more or less extent ''.

In other words, if an ideal gas is compressed and kept at constant temperature, the work done in compressing it is completely converted into heat and transferred to the surrounding heat sink.

On chemical grounds it seems most likely that iodide is first converted to Af and then to Af as the active iodinating species.

There it seems that the goitrogen ingested by dairy animals is itself inactive but is converted in the animal to an active goitrogen, which is then secreted in the milk.

It was applied with a compost shredder made from a converted manure spreader.

When the chance came, they first eliminated cold cereal once a week, then gradually converted to hot fresh-ground cereal every day.

Palfrey was determined that his portion of the slaves be converted to wage laborers during the transition period before emancipation.

So many Cubans were reported being swept into the Castro dragnet that the massive Sports Palace auditorium and at least one hotel were converted into makeshift jails.

Gulf's holdings could have been converted into 2,700,877 shares of Union Oil common upon surrender of debentures plus cash, according to Union.

Wendell Phillips ( 1811-1884 ), from a prominent Massachusetts family, in his teens was converted under the preaching of Lyman Beecher.

He doesn't really need the immense sum of money ( probably converted from American gold on the London Exchange ) he makes them pay.

In some species, urea is further converted into uric acid.

This converted to GBP £ 1, 687, 837 at the time In 2012, the capital is worth around SEK 3. 1 billion ( USD 472 million, EUR 337 million ), which is almost twice the amount of the initial capital, taking inflation into account.

First plutonium-239 nitrate (< sup > 239 </ sup > PuNO < sub > 3 </ sub >) solution was coated on a platinum foil of about 0. 5 cm < sup > 2 </ sup > area, the solution was evaporated and the residue was converted into plutonium dioxide ( PuO < sub > 2 </ sub >) by annealing.