Rare Air Force Stealth Measurement 737 Makes Public Appearances

The gravel kit includes:

  • a flat plate around the nose gear tires near ground, to keep them from throwing pebbles toward engines
  • an air boom projecting from bottom of nacelle to disrupt the vortex that occurs from inlet at low speed. (You can see it in rain, obvious on 727 center engines from terminal windows.)
    Miscellaneous hardening of surfaces pebbles would impinge on..