Path: utzoo!mnetor!tmsoft!torsqnt!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!att!cbnews!military From: huntzing@PICA.ARMY.MIL (CCL-S) Newsgroups: sci.military Subject: Re: NATO Air Refueling Methods (KC-10) Message-ID: <11532@cbnews.ATT.COM> Date: 18 Nov 89 06:37:15 GMT Sender: military@cbnews.ATT.COM Lines: 21 Approved: military@att.att.com From: "Hugh A. Huntzinger" (CCL-S) Henry Spencer writes: >The KC-10s are also being fitted with the necessary controls and plumbing >to put a probe-and-drogue pod under each wingtip... Robert Dorsett writes: >There are already some in operation. Take a look at... >...what looks conspicuously like a pod off the port wingtip. I've been listening to this for a couple of issues now & just realized :-) that I've had an 8"x10" glossy hanging on my cubical wall for awhile. It shows (what I think is a) KC-130 with 2 P&D setups. The Starboard Drogue goes to a ~10+' Probe on a (Marine?) six-bladed, single rotor helecopter which is carrying what looks like an LAV. The person who gave me the photo kept the one that had 2 'choppers refueling (both had LAV's underneath). To help to ID this as a KC-130, it's a 4-prop job with tail marking BH-82xx. (xx's are mine for last 2 digits of ID#). -hum