Images of Dr Strangelove.
That’s really cool. Do you know where they are landing?
My old first sergeant used to say we should bomb north Korea with canned food, transistor radios, penthouse magazine and cold beer.
Imagine being the guy who first proposed this idea!
Up to 1000 gallons per minute...
I think it would be really cool if Trump would end NK in a flash,
Been there, seen that. KC-135 refueling missions 1968, SE Aaia.
Not a smart move - placing strategic assets in a position where they can be neutralized on short notice.
That video is pure propaganda. There’s no way they are refueling. That old bird can hardly fly, that’s actually a towing boom so another airplane can pull it along.
We used to watch them take off, huge clouds of black smoke poured out of the engines. I’d tell young airmen it wasn’t engine smoke, that the pilot reved up the engines and dumped all the clutches at once, and the smoke was actually coming from the tires. Many believed it.
During ROTC training that summer at March AFB, CA, I had the privilege of riding in a KC-135 refueler. We watched the boom operator perform the exact same job as the video shows, refueling a B-52 in midair. It was awesome. They even let us lay down in the boom operator's couch to see how it felt.
The one thing that sticks with me to this day, is that the long wings of the B-52 flapped up and down like a bird. They were not rigid. And the outer skin on the aircraft was loose on the frame and tighten up and loosened with air pressure changes.
Great experience for a young Air Force officer in training.