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It came to my mind after reading Lt Stone "A Bridge Too Far" article in
February "Proceedings" that it might be not felt as any special nobilitation for a fighter pilot to fly tanker missions? Attack or anti-sub flyers, who probably were more used to "making history" than to "making movies", and performing support missions more frequently, probably would not complain. But for a real fighter, trained for CAP, escort and dogfight? Though now everything becomes strike fighter communities, so it is different to tell who is attack and who is fighter pilot;-) Best regards, Jacek Zemlo |
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In 1957 our North American Fury FJ-4Bs were equipped with buddy stores. The
right wing drop tank carried the basket, hose, reel, valves, switches, etc. and the left wing drop tank carried just fuel and valves. WDA end "Guy Alcala" wrote in message . .. I was just wondering if any buddy stores carried internal fuel,or if all the internal space was taken up by the drogue, hose and reel, pump, etc. I have conflicting sources, so hopefully those here with personal experience can give me the straight skinny. If you can mention the particular model(s) you're familiar with (if you remember) and its capacity (if any), that would help. TIA, Guy |
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Guy Alcala wrote:
snip My thanks to all who replied. Guy |
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"Mike Kanze" wrote:
Peter, Thanks for the additional perspective. I recall seeing a photo long ago of a P2V-1 (?) being fueled for a very long range flight. The fuel lines from the bowser to the aircraft were all packed in dry ice for the same reason. Yes, that was the Truculent Turtle and 'was' a P2V-1. it flew from New Zealand (?) to somewhere in the States... -- -Gord. (use gordon in email) |
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Still about this article in "Procedings", because I am afraid my remark
was not what I really wanted to say: The title "A Bridge Too Far" illustrated by a picture of VFA-94's F/A-18C refueled by VFA-41's F/A-18F apparently suggests that adopting Super Hornets to the tanker role was not a good idea... What's more, in the text the author criticizes replacing a 10-million-dollar tanker (good, but weary S-3B) by a 70-million-dollar one (brand-new F/A-18E/F). It really surprised me! And where are these stories about "flying the wings off the planes" when Vikings were utilized very intensively as tankers??? According to AFM, in OIF VFA-115, additionally charged with tanker sorties (an S-3B squadron still aboard, too) averaged 30 sorties a day when other squadrons averaged 20... Best regards, Jacek Zemlo |
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