Double Post

Pretty sparse static display as well – they can’t blame the weather on that!

That is only one section of the Static, there was other sections that ran parallel to the display line with fighters and civvies.

Does anyone have a link to the original KC-X, KC-Y and KC-Z proposals please

Some might say pandering to Boeing by delaying the recompetition.

** steps back to watch the fireworks from a safe distance 😉 **

A good place to start educating yourself.
http://handle.dtic.mil/100.2/ADA314032

A document from 1996..nothing more recent and relevant to the debate?

THough I did like this section…

Fighter Retrofits
If the population of probe-equipped fighters could be increased in the U.S.
inventory, the benefits of multipoint-refueling operations would more
likely be realized. However, the USAF F-16s and F-15s that are candidates
for retrofits with probes are already quite old and are scheduled to leave
the inventory within 10 to 15 years. By the time a retrofit program was
completed for almost 3,000 fighters, and over 500 KC-135s were outfitted
with drogue pods, the F-22 and JAST (Joint Advanced Strike Technology)
aircraft would be entering the inventory. Given this situation, a program
to retrofit large numbers of current U.S. fighters with probes is probably
inadvisable, but the apparent advantages of multipoint aerial refueling
indicate that the installation of probes on follow-on fighter aircraft should
be considered.

Which seems to suggest that F22 and F35s should have probes.

Could it be the S 92 Superhawk that your thinking of?

With This Link to a larger image with a refueling probe (possibly a mock up)

Really sorry to bring this back up! But there is a good reason for it (close it back down if it is inappropriate mods).

There was just an episode of Mythbusters on, on Discovery (5-6pm, 29th Aug 08), where they allowed a single seater, light aircraft to take off ON a large piece of material acting as a moving runway, that was pulled in the opposite direction of the plane as it took off – and matched the speed. The plane took off easily. Their conclusion that a plane cannot take off if on a moving runway……busted.

Sy 🙂

There was one problem with the Mythbusters episode…they gave no evidence of matching initial speed with the moving material.

The original puzzle was an aircraft at take off thrust releases its brakes as it starts to move the conveyer somehow matches that speed to counteract the impetous of the thrust through the airframe rotating the wheels.

This isn’t what the Mythbusters did.

It’s written on it….it’s an FK9