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From: ut-emx!walt.cc.utexas.edu!rdd@cs.utexas.edu (Robert Dorsett)
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Subject: Re: NATO Air Refueling Methods (KC-10)
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Date: 17 Nov 89 06:10:12 GMT
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From: ut-emx!walt.cc.utexas.edu!rdd@cs.utexas.edu (Robert Dorsett)

In article <11432@cbnews.ATT.COM> henry@zoo.toronto.edu (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, to make them capable
>of the standard p-and-d trick of refuelling three aircraft simultaneously.
>The last ones off the production line had the pod hookups built in, and
>the others are being retrofitted with them gradually.  The USAF isn't
>buying enough pods to equip the entire KC-10 fleet, however.

There are already some in operation.  Take a look at "From Trainer to Tanker"
in the 10/28 issue of FLIGHT INTERNATIONAL.  There's a picture of a KC-10 on
page 30, with what looks conspicuously like a pod off the port wingtip.






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