[Kathy in Alaska]

And Randy the silver.....

[alfa6]

Greetings one and out there in Freeperland. It's been a long week for your humble poster but here we are with the Friday Flyby, OOORAH!!! Credit, or blame, depending on your point of view, for this weekends posts goes to Kathy in Alaska. Last weekend she mentioned that she liked pictures of aircraft refueling, while flying. As your humble poster of aviation pics happens to have several pics of this type I was more than happy to round up a dozen or so for this weekend. Plus I am being lazy to boot:-) So on with the pics.

First up a head on pic of a C-17 gettin some gas.

Next up a KC-135 from the 190th Air Refueling Wing out of Forbes Field in Topeka, Kansas provides some gogo juice to an F-15E Eagle. The Kansas Coyotes are just a hour down the road from me:-)

Next up an A-10 Warthog refuels from the friendly gas station in the sky.

An oldie but a goodie for LUV W, a rather inrteresting perspective if I may say so.

So far all we have seen is the "Flying Boom" method of refueling. A good example of the "Probe and Drogue" is in this picture of a F-4 Phantom II getting ready to plug in.

Even helicopters can get thirsty, here a KC-130 provides some much needed fuel to a thirsty chopper to close out tonights Flyby. If ytou look closely under the other side of the Hercules you can see another drogue deployed.

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Well y'all have a great weekend out there and we will see you tomorrow night.

Regards

alfa6 ;>}