This morning, my jet was parked next to gate D1 at the LaGuardia Airport.  I don't know the history of the hangars, but they appear to have been built in the 1930s.  Here is a reflection of the new color scheme on the tail reflected in the windows of the hangar doors.

Here are a few pictures of KC-135 details taken with macro lenses (mostly the Nikon 105mm) just for fun!

This is the landing gear handle with the attitude indicator display in the background.

If things go really bad, there's still a standby attitude indicator.  This was taken with the macro function of the old Nikon 35-70mm f/2.8:

This handle raises the spoilers up to 60 degrees reducing lift:

The "Ready" light shines in the red glow of the boom pod at night:

The KC-135 yoke comes equipped with a heading slew switch:

A challenging shot for anyone documenting the KC-135 is the one of the boom operator at work.  The boom lies on his or her belly facing rearward at the back of the tanker with a view of the receiver aircraft and the boom which is flown into the receiver aircraft.  The issues photographing the boom at work include tight spaces, extreme lighting conditions (boom in darkness, receiver in daylight), and a very wide angle between the boom and receiver aircraft.  There are 2 mirrors that the boom uses like an inverted periscope to see past the boom to view the arriving receiver aircraft.  In this shot, I photographed the boom with my Nikon D800 which has a dynamic range of 14.4 stops.  This excellent dynamic range allowed me to, in post processing, use the adjustment brush in Lightroom to darken the outside the window view, and lighten the boom's face.  I solved the issue of photographing both the boom operator and receiver aircraft by using the upper mirror to reflect the boom operator concentrating on his work.  I didn't need to use a super wide lens to capture both subjects which could have resulted in distortion.