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Passing Gas
Published 6 years, 4 months ago
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The history of Air to Air refuelling and how the systems that we are now familiar with, the boom and the probe & drogue, came into being.
Capt. Lowell H. Smith and Lt. John P. Richter receiving the first mid-air refueling on June 27, 1923.
The Question Mark receives fuel during its record breaking endurance flight.
A KB-50J refuels a F-101A Voodoo, B-66 Destroyer and F-100D Super Sabre at RAF Waterbeach, Cambridgeshire on Battle of Britain Day, 14 September 1963.
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