re: #618 Vet_Missing_Parts (1LT, Ret)

Certainly… but the effort has a downside, when you throttle your F-16 back to refuel, how much of the new gas is going to be burned getting you back up to operational speed.

I bet you get the same effect reloading off a jet, just not as much.

/interesting math problem.

U.S. fighter pilots were definitely happy when the USAF switched from the slow, lumbering KC-97s to the 135s. They didn’t have to slow down as much.

I remember when KC-97s were stationed at the old Dallas Naval Air Station (TX and OH ANG units were the last to give up their 97s). It was said that when the 97s started runup of their engines, the whole field went IFR (from the smoke).