Originally Posted by alarkyokie

In May,1980, I was on my way to the Indian Ocean on a -135 ferrying
two F-15's to Kadena. The boomer was hung over from the night before in PI.
After the third or fourth top off,one receiver got a kink in the hose- more of a "Z" than a sine wave. The hose ruptured, bathing the fighter in JP4. The hose came apart like a piece of flexible exhaust pipe stretched out to 30 feet!
Our other tank wasn't drouge equipped, so back to PI we went!
OPS wanted to foam the runway, but our A/C said he didn't want that *******
all over his plane, and anyway, the basket was forty feet or more behind the tail. When we stopped, the round basket was only half-round!
Fun and games in SAC!