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To: DuncanWaring
To the best of my knowledge, no KC-135 has wingtip refueling pods; they can have a drogue attachment mounted on the refueling boom prior to flight.

Wingtip refueling pods are only on the KC-130 and the KC-767/KC-46.

No but have been a lot of modded 707 refuelers with wingtip pods

Italian, Columbian KC-767s also have tip pods.

There are no KC-46s. There are however KC-30s (which the original photo is of), but they, like KC=130s, have pods better describes as "outer-wing"


37 posted on 10/08/2014 12:19:03 AM PDT by Oztrich Boy (In Soviet Russia, Police say "please" when demanding papers.)
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To: Oztrich Boy; Yo-Yo

Thanks.

I thought I had heard that there were some 707-based tankers with wing refueling pods, but couldn’t find any references to them.

The Japanese have got KC-767s also. I spent a year working on developing the refueling equipment for those.


39 posted on 10/08/2014 8:40:28 AM PDT by DuncanWaring (The Lord uses the good ones; the bad ones use the Lord.)
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