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From: ntaib@silver.ucs.indiana.edu (Nur Iskandar Taib)
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Subject: Re: Air-to-air refueling
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From: ntaib@silver.ucs.indiana.edu (Nur Iskandar Taib)
>   If so, why wasn't this technique used in WW2?  Or was it?

>Because it wasn't until jets came around that refuelling became
>imperative.  Range extension in WW II fighters came from drop tanks.

I suppose so.. but I'll bet the 8th air force desparately
wanted added range beyond what drop tanks provided its 
P-47s and P-38s early in the bomber offensive against Ger-
many! The germans would wait just beyond the range of the 
fighter escort. The P-51 solved this problem. 
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