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Old 12-05-2018, 03:50 PM
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Default Marine F/A-18 and KC-130 down off Japan

One survivor of a total of seven crew (for both airplanes) picked up alive after refueling accident. Search is ongoing.
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Old 12-05-2018, 05:31 PM
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Oh no.

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https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/05/w...nes-japan.html

Second crewman found alive, five still missing.
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The guys with ejection seats are accounted for, one ok one reported dead. Unknown status for the rest. Still hoping.

Fair winds and following seas.
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A C-130 refueling a high performance fighter? What could possibly go wrong?

Anybody know what speed the C-130 would have been using for the A/R? I have flown with some old KC-97 pilots that said that they needed to be in a full power descent to get fast enough to refuel certain fighters.

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A C-130 refueling a high performance fighter? What could possibly go wrong?

Anybody know what speed the C-130 would have been using for the A/R? I have flown with some old KC-97 pilots that said that they needed to be in a full power descent to get fast enough to refuel certain fighters.

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KC-130’s refuel F-18’s, AV-8’s, and F-35’s routinely. It’s a very common occurrence.
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A C-130 refueling a high performance fighter? What could possibly go wrong?

Anybody know what speed the C-130 would have been using for the A/R? I have flown with some old KC-97 pilots that said that they needed to be in a full power descent to get fast enough to refuel certain fighters.

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it is extremely common place.
I've done KC-130 tanking at 500'.
besides the turbulence causing problems over the Northern Territory desert - it isn't a problem.
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Sad and happening just after the release of this report: https://s3.amazonaws.com/static.mili...2-redacted.pdf
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