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From: mullermb@mentor.cc.purdue.edu (Mark Muller)
Newsgroups: sci.military
Subject: Re: Aircraft turnaround and maintenance
Message-ID: <1991Feb19.032336.17794@cbnews.att.com>
Date: 19 Feb 91 03:23:36 GMT
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From: mullermb@mentor.cc.purdue.edu (Mark Muller)

In article <1991Feb18.053845.10992@cbnews.att.com> dmocsny@minerva.che.uc.edu (Daniel Mocsny) writes:
>I have three questions of my own for the experts of sci.military:
>
>2. I am aware of air-to-air refueling as a way to increase combat
>range, but do the air services use it as a way to increase payload?
>I.e., do planes ever take off with a full bombload and partial 
>fuel load, and then rendezvous with a tanker to top their tanks
>once aloft?
>
   I have not heard of this particular manuever done by strike aircraft, but it
 is a common procedure for C-5 Transports.  They often take off with as much
 cargo as possible, and only enough fuel to get off the ground and to a nearby
 tanker.  This allows them to carry more than their maximum takeoff weight
 would normally allow for.


Mark Muller            Undergraduate Student
Purdue University      Aeronautics and Astronautics Engineering