Fiil 'Er Up! Ethel Please. Oh yeah and clean the windscreen too.
Nice.
Filegula...
I am glad I don't have to pay that bad boy's gas bill (directly). A teen aged daughter is darn near expensive, though....
Wonder why they're not using the newer KC-10s over there??
Flying backward,passing gas.
I knew that the Taliban had threatened new uprisings, but if we need that much ordinance to subdue them again, they are far stronger and/or numerous than rumored.
The "close air support" tag on the missions implies that we are heavily engaged with sizeable Taliban units. You don't need a B-52 strike to deal with a small rag-tag group of terrorists.
Anyone got the "straight" scoop on what's happening?
The wide angle lens doesn't do justice to just how close the two planes are.
In the one and only flight I ever took on a USAF plane I was able to get into the boomer position on a KC-135 while refueling a flight of A-7's. You're close enough to read the pilot's name on his flight suit.
Love those 'Buffs'
hell ya now thats a nice photo! :)
This was my work view for three years from 1966-1970. Laying next to the boom operator flying the ruddervators and seeing places like Guam, Wake Island and Okinawa disappearing in the distance was my world. We lived in the KC-135 and carried a pair of spare engines along one for the tanker and one for the B-52's or what ever was needed.
As a Jet Engine Mechanic we not only was a flying Gas Tank but a fully equipped parts operation as well. That view is burned into my memory; the view is spectacular as you can imagine but it is deadly serious work to co-ordinate the aerial ballet required to successfully accomplish that task.
Yawn. Ho Hum. Been there. Seen that.
But dog gone it is still FASCINATING!