[Scan-DC] Air Refuel Question

Sat, 06 Apr 2002 05:50:35 -0500

We were living in Japan some years ago and took a space available trip
to Guam to go diving. On the way back, we got a ride in an Air Force 
KC-135 tanker which refueled a B-52.  The flight engineer let our boys
(3 and 13 at the time) down into the refueling station with that
gigantic aircraft sort of lumbering below us; it was quite remarkable,
especially for us Navy types. High point of the trip for them, suffice
it to say; the older one still followed family tradition and went USN,
though...

Charles Lawson wrote:
> 
> [email protected] writes:
> >
> >Yesterday at about 6:30 PM while on Mass Ave near Rock Creek
> >
> >Park and looking South I saw what I'm assuming to be a refueling
> >
> >op.  There was a large plane with a small plane right on it's wing
> >
> >flying nice and slowly to the E/SE.  They were low eonugh for me to
> >
> >make out both planes (my guesstimate is 20k feet give or take) and
> >
> >couldn't have been outside the beltway.
> 
> Just a data point:
> 
> My in-laws and I watched a re-fueling operation several months ago that
> was occurring directly over P-56.  Altitude didn't appear to be much
> higher than 10-12,000 feet.  Took me by surprise but was fascinating to
> watch as I've never had such a good view of such an operation before.
> 
> Chas.
> 
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