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Australian Super Hornet refuels over Iraq
ABC (Australia) ^
| 10/5/2014
| ADF: Sgt Hamish Paterson
Posted on 10/07/2014 9:58:37 AM PDT by Ready4Freddy
Great pic, but begs some questions.
Doesn't this look a bit too close for comfort, or is it not as close as it appears?
Who would be flying that close to a refueling op, and why?
The cockpit frame visible in the lower righthand corner suggests that it's not the other Aussie 18E/F that has flown thus far.
TOPICS: Military/Veterans
KEYWORDS: aerospace; australia; aviation; iraq; isis; raaf; saudiarabia; superhornet; syria; unitedarabemirates; waronterror
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To: Don W
I can see it just fine.
Did you piss off the Navy? ;)
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posted on
10/07/2014 11:17:45 AM PDT
by
freedumb2003
(Zimmerman, Brown, Fast & Furious, IRS harassment, Philly ignorance: holdering in 1st degree)
To: freedumb2003
LOL Not that I know of...
Perhaps it’s cuz I’m in a “furrin’ countree”. I’m less than 90 miles from Seattle, but on that big rock that keeps the Pacific from running rampant down Puget Sound. A five minute drive from my house and I can see Port Angeles Wa.
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posted on
10/07/2014 11:24:49 AM PDT
by
Don W
(To laugh, perhaps to dream...)
To: DuncanWaring
More likely another FA-18 took the pic.
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posted on
10/07/2014 11:37:32 AM PDT
by
Blood of Tyrants
(The cure has become worse than the disease. Support an end to the WOD now.)
To: Blood of Tyrants; DuncanWaring
>>More likely another FA-18 took the pic.<<
No matter how — wingcam, fortunate shot inside the fueler or wingman — it is breathtaking, poignant and beautiful.
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posted on
10/07/2014 11:47:25 AM PDT
by
freedumb2003
(Zimmerman, Brown, Fast & Furious, IRS harassment, Philly ignorance: holdering in 1st degree)
To: teeman8r
or it could be some other pilots i phone Based on the hype of the almost Android Galaxy iPhone 6, you should be able actually fly the iPhone 7 and take such a shot live.
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posted on
10/07/2014 11:49:55 AM PDT
by
freedumb2003
(Zimmerman, Brown, Fast & Furious, IRS harassment, Philly ignorance: holdering in 1st degree)
To: freedumb2003
and stream it to the ISIS facebook page with a “heads up”
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posted on
10/07/2014 12:35:13 PM PDT
by
teeman8r
(Armageddon won't be pretty, but it's not like it's the end of the world.)
To: teeman8r
>>and stream it to the ISIS facebook page with a heads up<<
In a just Universe, my FRiend.
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posted on
10/07/2014 1:16:49 PM PDT
by
freedumb2003
(Zimmerman, Brown, Fast & Furious, IRS harassment, Philly ignorance: holdering in 1st degree)
To: Vendome
Diplomatic Relations...
(I hate it when it does that).
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posted on
10/07/2014 1:18:16 PM PDT
by
freedumb2003
(Zimmerman, Brown, Fast & Furious, IRS harassment, Philly ignorance: holdering in 1st degree)
To: Yo-Yo
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posted on
10/07/2014 1:20:33 PM PDT
by
Osage Orange
(I have strong feelings about gun control. If there's a gun around, I want to be controlling it.)
To: spel_grammer_an_punct_polise
To me it looks like the camera may have been mounted to the tail wing of the tanker...Regardless, great pic...
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posted on
10/07/2014 2:33:57 PM PDT
by
Iscool
To: Sparky1776; militant2; TaMoDee; freedumb2003; PERKY2004
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posted on
10/07/2014 5:44:28 PM PDT
by
Jet Jaguar
(Resist in place.)
To: Vendome
I could tell you if I did.
But then I’d have to kill you.
To: DuncanWaring
The hose and drogue refueling rigs are on the wingtips of KC-135 aircraft, so that would be an easy photo to get. Two of these aircraft can be refueled at the same time.
To: Ready4Freddy
Whatever...Iceman...
You can be my wingman...
LOL!
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posted on
10/07/2014 6:54:07 PM PDT
by
Vendome
(Don't take life so seriously-you won't live through it anyway-Enjoy Yourself ala Louis Prima)
To: MediaMole
To the best of my knowledge, no KC-135 has wingtip refueling pods; they can have a drogue attachment mounted on the refueling boom prior to flight.
Wingtip refueling pods are only on the KC-130 and the KC-767/KC-46.
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posted on
10/07/2014 7:06:47 PM PDT
by
DuncanWaring
(The Lord uses the good ones; the bad ones use the Lord.)
To: Don W
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posted on
10/07/2014 7:10:18 PM PDT
by
cynwoody
To: DuncanWaring
To the best of my knowledge, no KC-135 has wingtip refueling pods; they can have a drogue attachment mounted on the refueling boom prior to flight. Wingtip refueling pods are only on the KC-130 and the KC-767/KC-46.
No but have been a lot of modded 707 refuelers with wingtip pods
Italian, Columbian KC-767s also have tip pods.
There are no KC-46s. There are however KC-30s (which the original photo is of), but they, like KC=130s, have pods better describes as "outer-wing"
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posted on
10/08/2014 12:19:03 AM PDT
by
Oztrich Boy
(In Soviet Russia, Police say "please" when demanding papers.)
To: DuncanWaring
To the best of my knowledge, no KC-135 has wingtip refueling pods;Some KC-135Rs have the ability to use wingtip refueling pods.
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posted on
10/08/2014 3:53:07 AM PDT
by
Yo-Yo
(Is the /sarc tag really necessary?)
To: Oztrich Boy; Yo-Yo
Thanks.
I thought I had heard that there were some 707-based tankers with wing refueling pods, but couldn’t find any references to them.
The Japanese have got KC-767s also. I spent a year working on developing the refueling equipment for those.
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posted on
10/08/2014 8:40:28 AM PDT
by
DuncanWaring
(The Lord uses the good ones; the bad ones use the Lord.)
To: TalonDJ
"If it is a KC-130 then that perspective looks spot on."
The Saudi Arabian KC-130 are possible but not the best aircraft for this job. The KC-130 can't reach the cruise altitude for jets.
There are also about 20 KC-135 able to accept wing mounted refueling pods. A boom adapter looks differently.
According to the drogue it could be an A330-MRTT:
http://leehamnews.files.wordpress.com/2009/11/mrtt_2.jpg (bigger)
The United Arab Emirates have 1 operational A330-MRTT, the RAF 9 Voyagers and Australian RAAF has 5 operational KC-30A.
Very likely the picture was taken from an Australian KC-30A.
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posted on
10/10/2014 3:01:59 AM PDT
by
MHalblaub
("Easy my friends, when it comes to the point it is only a drawing made by a non believing Dane...")
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