Marine F/A-18 and KC-130 down off Japan
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Update
Second crewman found alive, five still missing.
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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.
Joe
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.
Joe
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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.
Joe
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.
Joe
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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.
Joe
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.
Joe
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