On Tue, 01 Jun 2004 19:17:23 -0700, Henry J Cobb wrote:

One pilot for each aircraft and then somebody in the back of the tanker
to fly the boom.

The boom handler is a pilot? Why?

There used to be a joke about flying up dead-end canyons: don't do it
unless you've learned how to fly a plane backwards. Presumably a boom
operator could do just that.

all the best -- Dan Ford
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