[alfa6]

Greetings Freepers it's time for the Saturday Sortie. BIGLOOK gets the credit for tonight's Sortie idea. Tonight we look at one of the planes that helps to give our aircraft their "Seven Leagues Boots" the KC-10 Extender.

So on with the pics...

We lead off tonights Sortie with this head on picture.

Sort of an overhead pic of the Extender.

Up close and personal with the Boomer, "Wipe the window, check the oil, dollar gas ,please"

Here we have a KC-10 caught in the act of "Extending"

It looks like there is gonna be a whole lot of that "extendin" going on here soon.

Well it's been a long day and with tears in our eyes we head off into the sunset to get ready to do it all again tomorrow.

Hope everybody has a great week out there in Freeperland. Y'all stay safe now, ya 'ear.

regards

alfa6 ;>}

[laurenmarlowe]

Good evening alfa, great Sortie! Awesome pics, especially the last one.

You have a good week too!

[luvie]

Thanks for the Saturday Sortie, Alfa! Those are really awesome shots of the KC-10!

Have a good week!

[BIGLOOK]

Aloha Alfa6!

Thinking a lot about what you asked, "What are heavies?" Good reply. I thought back to seeing 'Puff the Magic Dragon' near an F-4 Phantom or compared to our EA-3 'Whale'. Puff could carry cargo and considered Heavy and the others 'fast movers' and 'strike/support'.

I guess I was thinking about flying out of DaNang up to Okinawa on a C-141 Star Lifter on space available status.(Space Available, my ass! A company of Marines could fit in there.) The fus was loaded with trucks and heavy equipment and the two of us got fold down aluminum and canvas seats along the bulkhead. We wished the cargo master wouldn't watch us so closely so we could sneak up into a truck and catch a few comfortable zzz's on the seats.

The Connies and Orions we flew in were heavies, C-130s, C-135s and some of the older stuff were heavies too. So's the Buff and B-1 and B-2.

Sometimes a C-5 and lately C-17s visit here. Those are Heavies.

[Kathy in Alaska]

Thanks, alfa, for tonight’s Saturday Sortie...((HUGS))...some of my favorite pictures are the refueling ones. My favorite is the ones waiting their turn.