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Why This Plane Drags a 5-Mile Wire Behind It
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The E6-B Mercury is a military electronics variant of the Boeing 707 that is doing aerobatic tricks to be able to use that 5 Mi long wire vertical antenna to talk to submarines at up to 100 ft depth over VLF (very low frequency) radio.