KC130 refuels F35 over Beaufort, SC
03-25-2015, 08:00 PM
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04-06-2015, 02:55 AM
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Originally Posted by Viper446
I didn't know the F-35 like to AR at that slow of a speed. I seem to remember fighters doing AR at more like 300kts.
Maybe it is a difference between boom and drogue refueling; but even when I was in a mixed formation I don't remember such speeds.
04-08-2015, 08:16 AM
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Originally Posted by Viper446
I didn't know the F-35 like to AR at that slow of a speed. I seem to remember fighters doing AR at more like 300kts.
04-08-2015, 02:30 PM
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F-4 was 310 kts. Door was limited to 320 for opening and closing, but once opened, 400. One Atlantic crossing, KC-10 said to make the crossing, we needed to do 330 (headwinds), so just kept it open, and cycled a circuit breaker to make the fuel transfer when we weren't tanking.
Still ran him out of gas.
Had to lauch a KC-135 from Maine to refuel the KC-10, and I think they refueled around 290-310.
THAT was a sight to see!
Still ran him out of gas.
Had to lauch a KC-135 from Maine to refuel the KC-10, and I think they refueled around 290-310. THAT was a sight to see!
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