I know the 707 did, but does the E-3 and KC-135 carry a Flight Engineer as normal minimum crew?
Slight thread drift, but with the KC135 being late 50's-early 60's vintage, how did they get rid of the Flight Engineers panel? Disperse the systems panels around the pilot positions?
Back to the thread, if this comes out to be in any way related to the age of the airplane (50 years!!!), that would probably have significant implications for the US military, still having hundreds of KC135s flying.