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To: Magnum44

The one I am familiar with was a NASA F-18 with the drogue. I wasn’t on the program personally so I don’t have details.

https://www.nasa.gov/centers/dryden/multimedia/imagegallery/F-15a_845/EC02-0294-4.html

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F-Y7fhIasjM


42 posted on 06/11/2021 3:23:58 PM PDT by TalonDJ
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To: TalonDJ

So it’s only been modeled. Hasn’t been done. I would have been impressed if the loop had been closed from the receiving end. That’s probably still under development. There are a lot of dynamics involved between the drogue and the probe of an aircraft trying to plug. I can see that being a tough problem, though with computer vision systems and some computer learning algorithms, not beyond technology.


43 posted on 06/11/2021 4:51:23 PM PDT by Magnum44 (...against all enemies, foreign and domestic...)
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