Walt
Bad luck with the fire; how very frustrating. People are putting on
exhibitions of that sort of subject in the UK now.
I don't think that those are tankers. I believe, now, that KC135s
were indeed used in SE Asia, but they are jet-propelled. I don't
think that propellor aircraft are fast enough to refuel jets --
comfortably at least. They normally have to "toboggan" to get the
speed high enough (point downhill) and that limits the time available
for a fighter's contact to refuel.
Well, that's what I wrote before I read this:http://www.wpafb.af.mil/
museum/outdoor/od17a.htm
or this: http://www.wpafb.af.mil/museum/outdoor/od18.htm
So it appears that I was wrong ...
Chris
p.s. while looking for articles on tankers I found this: http://
www.citiesoflight.net/ChemTests.html
cb
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On 18 Jul 2005, at 15:32, Walt Wayman wrote:
> Chris,
>
> I think the tanker was a KC135, but I'm not positive. I'm pretty
> sure it was a KC130-something. Can you tell from this?
>
> http://home.att.net/~hiwayman/wsb/html/view.cgi-photo.html--
> SiteID-793417.html
>
> I had several hundred shots taken on joy rides with the USAF back
> in the early to mid '60s, but 95 percent of everything I shot
> before August of 1967 was lost in a house fire. The half dozen
> shots of this type I have left were at the tail end of a roll of
> other stuff that didn't get incinerated.
>
> Walt
>
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