"Ron" wrote in message
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I guess its all a matter of perspective. 30+ hours airborne is paiful,
and us
bombers guys have *plenty* of night,weather air refueling. I'd imagine
nearly
continuous A/Rs are a pain in the ass, but taking on 120,000 pounds at
night
in
the weather over the Pacific is no picnic. If the tanker can run on all
its
boost pumps we can take about 6,000 pounds a minute which means 20
minutes of
contact time to take on the required on load. In my opinion, both seem
challenging.


I was looking at my granddads records when he flew the D at Ellsworth, and
once
he had 5 refuelings without a disconnect. Seeing as that is at least 20
min
each time, seems like not a bad achievement at all

Did you know who Tony Kern was from an earlier conversation on here?


Ron
Tanker 65, C-54E (DC-4)
Silver City Tanker Base

Tony Kern and I were instructor pilots in the Bone schoolhouse in 1991.
Last I talked to him, about 6 or so months ago, he was the head of aircraft
ops for the Forest Service. Probly why you know the name eh? :-)

JB