On a TDY to Diego Garcia,our crew was ferrying two F15's to Kadena.A couple of hours out from Clark AFB, we spotted an aircraft carrier with a Soviet trawler
dogging her 5 or 10 miles back. The fighter jocks announced,"Watch this!", and proceeded to peel off and do a low-level flyby over the trawler's masts.
We had a young Captain that came over the intercom and said to everyone
"Hang on!"
I was riding with the boom operator aft as we did a wing-over and decended
from FL320 to the deck! Didn't know a KC-135 could fly like that!
The A/C announced the closure rate as we approached the trawler, and as we passed over the boomer dropped the pipe and off-loaded a thousand lbs.
of JP4!
He came over the intercom and said," I don't know what happened, Cap'n,
but we just lost a thousand lbs. of gas!"
Everyone on board got a chuckle, and the Soviet swabbies got a JP4 shower!
(Sorry, no pics-just a hazy flashback to the late '70's..)