Pics of F-117 Air Refueling by Succatash

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Pics of F-117 Air Refueling

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UPDATED: Monday, April 2, 2007 09:48
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Friday, March 30, 2007 9:23 AM

I thought I'd share these photos sent to me by a friend. Photos were taken yesterday. Pretty cool.

These are pictures of last night's mission. We flew down by the Mexican border to refuel 6 F-117's. The mission was over 4 hours long.

Each F-117 took 4000 lb of fuel. Each offload took about 2 minutes to offload the gas. That is about 600 gallons of fuel in 2 minutes.

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"Gott kann dich nicht vor mir beschuetzen, weil ich nicht boese bin."

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Friday, March 30, 2007 10:46 AM

FREDGIBLET

Wobblin' Goblin's kick ass

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Friday, March 30, 2007 1:48 PM

FREMDFIRMA

In a stroke of fortunate irony, a friend sent me some russian airshow pics that are pretty neat.
http://www.richard-seaman.com/Aircraft/AirShows/Gidroaviasalon2006/Hig
hlights/index.html

The west coast could use a couple of those jet seaplanes as fire patrol, imop...

-Frem

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Friday, March 30, 2007 4:59 PM

AURAPTOR

America loves a winner!

What makes this maneuver so tricky is the F-117 pilots don't see the end of the 'boom' connecting w/ their fuel coupling. Because the coupling is behind them, they have to aim for a point on the belly of the refueling plane, and allow the boom operator to do the rest of the work. I don't know of another plane ( besides maybe the b-2 ) which has it's refueling port behind the cockpit.

Damn fine flyin', it takes.

People love a happy ending. So every episode, I will explain once again that I don't like people. And then Mal will shoot someone. Someone we like. And their puppy. - Joss

" They don't like it when you shoot at 'em. I worked that out myself. "

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Friday, March 30, 2007 5:55 PM

PIRATECAT

Real men fly with tailhooks. The Airforce what a bunch of puffs.

"Battle of Serenity, Mal. Besides Zoe here, how many-" "I'm talkin at you! How many men in your platoon came out of their alive".

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Friday, March 30, 2007 5:57 PM

SUCCATASH

I don't know anything military aircraft. But if I saw the F-117 on Battlestar Galactica or some other sci fi movie, I would think it fits right in and looks TOTALLY bad ass.

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Friday, March 30, 2007 6:14 PM

FREMDFIRMA

You should see the SR-71 Blackbird, Tash, it's even cooler looking.

In fact, there's one in the background of the Firefly episode "Trash" if you know where to look for it.

-F

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Friday, March 30, 2007 6:24 PM

SUCCATASH

Quote:
Originally posted by Fremdfirma:
You should see the SR-71 Blackbird, Tash, it's even cooler looking.

In fact, there's one in the background of the Firefly episode "Trash" if you know where to look for it.

-F

Damn, you're not kidding!

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Saturday, March 31, 2007 2:22 AM

AURAPTOR

America loves a winner!

Yeah, too bad these birds are out of commission. Wicked cool.

Look for a quick fly by of the SR 71 in an early scene, where Mal and YoSafBridge are landing the shuttle.

People love a happy ending. So every episode, I will explain once again that I don't like people. And then Mal will shoot someone. Someone we like. And their puppy. - Joss

" They don't like it when you shoot at 'em. I worked that out myself. "

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Sunday, April 1, 2007 11:18 AM

CRUITHNE3753

Quote:
Originally posted by Fremdfirma:
In a stroke of fortunate irony, a friend sent me some russian airshow pics that are pretty neat.
http://www.richard-seaman.com/Aircraft/AirShows/Gidroaviasalon2006/Hig
hlights/index.html

The west coast could use a couple of those jet seaplanes as fire patrol, imop...

-Frem

The Russians have been criticised for copying western designs, but when the're original they really are original, particulary with multi-rotor helicopters and ekranoplans such as the Caspian Sea Monster.

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Monday, April 2, 2007 9:48 AM

KHYRON

"The best argument against democracy is a five minute conversation with the average voter."

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