C-54E 43-17248 HOT PEPPER assigned to the 7405th Support Squadron
at Wiesbaden was a veteran of the 1948 Berlin Airlift. The radar radome
was used to hide receiver antennas. PHOTINT / ELINT. Templehof, June 1961.
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<small>The Big Safari program name mentioned corresponds to the period when 
the aircraft was photographed. The aircraft modifications and the Big Safari 
program in which this particular aircraft was involved were not necessarily 
the same before or after.</small>