Edwards AFB Air Show 2005 / DK22_008 10/22-23/2005

The 412th Flight Test Squadron’s C-135C Speckled Trout in 2000 flew its first test
mission with new equipment meant to give aircrews up-to-the-minute weather data.
The new system, called aviation weather information, provides meteorological details
previously not available in the cockpit.The Speckled Trout flies over the Mojave Desert
during a flight from Edwards. The one-of-kind aircraft is being used to test new aviation
equipment that provides up-to-the-minute weather data. Early Speckled Trout test missions
are being flown in the continental US with follow-on sorties planned for over the Pacific.

C-135C Speckled Trout 57-2589 from 412th FLTS Edwards AFB, CA