Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!att!cbnews!military From: shafer@drynix (Mary Shafer) Newsgroups: sci.military Subject: F-4, etc. Message-ID: <7949@cbnews.ATT.COM> Date: 5 Jul 89 12:37:20 GMT Sender: military@cbnews.ATT.COM Lines: 31 Approved: military@att.att.com From: Mary Shafer I responded to Michael J Tighe's comments on refuelling, saying: All Navy (and Marine) a/c refuel with probe and drogue, all USAF a/c use the boom. This will probably never change, although the Air Force has fitted a drogue refuelling system to the KC-135 and KC-10. However, this has to be installed on the ground and doesn't have all the features that the Navy drogue does. One Navy pilot has told me that you can get fuel from it, but it's really just barely adequate. Right after I sent this off, I got the June "Interavia", which has another article about refuelling. The KC-10 Extender had underwing pods with the drogue. They're powered by a little propeller on the front and they work really well, with all the features. There's a nice drawing in the article. So it's only the KC-135 that has the barely adequate, ground-installed drogue. I should also mention that the US Army uses probe and drogue refuelling for most of its helicopters, particularly the big ones. The tankers are KC-130s. -- M F Shafer shafer@elxsi.dfrf.nasa.gov NASA Ames Research Center arpa!elxsi.dfrf.nasa.gov!shafer Dryden Flight Research Facility DON'T use the drynix address Of course I don't speak for NASA A MiG at your six is better than no MiG at all. --Unknown US fighter pilot.