I'll make an educated guess here... I think it is the same B-1 refueling several times. Years ago I had the opportunity to be on the tanker refueling an SR-71 at Edwards that was doing a series of supersonic runs for shock wave research. Those fast runs burned up a lot of fuel, so we orbited in the tanker track to repeatedly top off the SR-71 and the F-16XL that was also flying in the test.
How much fuel can the KC-135 pump out during refueling like this one shown? And why did the second refueling have to add the top off at the end? Thanks again for the video.
I was a KC-135 boom operator from 1979-1986. The transfer rate depended on the aircraft being refueled (fighter vs heavy jet). 6500 lbs per minute for the heavies using 4 pumps vs 3200 lbs per minute using two pumps for fighters. Using 4 pumps on a fighter would blow them off the boom.... and as far as the 2nd refueling, not all refueling missions requires full offloads. At Edwards, the receivers would take as much gas as needed for whatever their mission required. Once they got their gas, they will either depart the air refueling track or get more contacts for training and proficiency. All pilots must maintain air refueling contact currency.
THEEE BONE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Definitely ASMR! Thank you for posting this. 🇺🇸
You are welcome.
Always like the BONE. Was that the same B-1 or different aircraft? Thanks
I'll make an educated guess here... I think it is the same B-1 refueling several times. Years ago I had the opportunity to be on the tanker refueling an SR-71 at Edwards that was doing a series of supersonic runs for shock wave research. Those fast runs burned up a lot of fuel, so we orbited in the tanker track to repeatedly top off the SR-71 and the F-16XL that was also flying in the test.
How much fuel can the KC-135 pump out during refueling like this one shown? And why did the second refueling have to add the top off at the end? Thanks again for the video.
I was a KC-135 boom operator from 1979-1986. The transfer rate depended on the aircraft being refueled (fighter vs heavy jet). 6500 lbs per minute for the heavies using 4 pumps vs 3200 lbs per minute using two pumps for fighters. Using 4 pumps on a fighter would blow them off the boom.... and as far as the 2nd refueling, not all refueling missions requires full offloads. At Edwards, the receivers would take as much gas as needed for whatever their mission required. Once they got their gas, they will either depart the air refueling track or get more contacts for training and proficiency. All pilots must maintain air refueling contact currency.
@@MrGoodnplenty1957 Thanks for the info.