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To: Track9

What I want to know is how did they refuel an SR-71 on full afterburner?

That must be one very quick tanker!


6 posted on 07/25/2021 1:06:30 PM PDT by null and void ("Fact Checkers" Didn't Exist Until The Truth Started Getting Out)
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To: null and void

—”That must be one very quick tanker!”

JATO?
And a lot of them?


7 posted on 07/25/2021 1:11:42 PM PDT by DUMBGRUNT (("The enemy has overrun us. We are blowing up everything. Vive la France!"Dien Bien Phu last message)
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They’d have to drop afterburner and descend to meet a KC-135Q tanker.


13 posted on 07/25/2021 1:27:56 PM PDT by Tallguy
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Couldn’t have been the old KC-135Q we used in the 1960s.


41 posted on 07/25/2021 4:19:25 PM PDT by Ruy Dias de Bivar ((Democrats have declared us to be THE OBSOLETE MAN in the Twilight Zone.))
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