VC10 ZA147 Tanking from a C130K.
Now if you know how the HDU works then this is not the place to be taking photos from even though it looks great.
The link is a post to the photo on my site. (Thanks for the photo Steve)
Will get roung to scanning some of mine in one of these days.
http://www.mackrick.34sp.com/index.php/?p=1194
VC10 Tanking from a C130K
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MiniMadAndrew
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Some years ago, in Stanley, we used to be able to go up with the Alberts. The standard photie was just like yours except with a Phantom, (thats how long ago it was)!
The loadie would hang onto your feet and you would get yourself as far into the tunnel as you could after the a/c had made contact.
Great fun.
The loadie would hang onto your feet and you would get yourself as far into the tunnel as you could after the a/c had made contact.
Great fun.
Never had a GE's wallet. It was always empty when I got back but I always had a smile on my face 
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Murray Keene
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crikey lovely pic but you wouldnt get me in the tunnel when that thing is tanking! Very dodgy.
I have been in the receiver aircraft when we hit an air pocket and that hose whiplashed across the opening and really clattered against the side. If anyone had been in there they woulda been strawberry jam! It was so violent the tanker got side shifted out of trim for a second.
Those hoses weigh a ton and people forget how heavy they are. We had to change one and reel the whole blooming anaconda out on the deck, it took about 10 of us.
However I have seen MANY loadies faces at the hole when we were juicing up, merrily waving at us. The BEST place I ever got for piccys was lying in LUXURY on the 'couch' down the back of the old KC135 (707). I got a jolly up with them tanking aircraft. The American way is to 'fly' a boom into a receptical on the aircraft. Usually only the big transports.
The boom operator has joysticks to fly little fins on the boom and once lined up extends into the hole (was it good for you too?
) Not only did they take me up but even let me have a crack tanking a B52 no less. It is a very skilled operation but with the operators help I got a contact. Trouble is those things always STANK of AVTUR (kerosene) and used to leak quite badly at times. 
I'll see if I can dig out the pics. I wonder why the RAF didnt adopt this method as it would have left the VC10 WITHOUT that horrible donkey dick protrusion on its nose!
I repaint aircraft for Flight Sim and I'm working on one as they used to be before they got messed with (the perfect C Mk1) without the probes and drogues. In the classic white and grey with the blue cheek stripes. I may even make it VX806, the best we had.
I have been in the receiver aircraft when we hit an air pocket and that hose whiplashed across the opening and really clattered against the side. If anyone had been in there they woulda been strawberry jam! It was so violent the tanker got side shifted out of trim for a second.
Those hoses weigh a ton and people forget how heavy they are. We had to change one and reel the whole blooming anaconda out on the deck, it took about 10 of us.
However I have seen MANY loadies faces at the hole when we were juicing up, merrily waving at us. The BEST place I ever got for piccys was lying in LUXURY on the 'couch' down the back of the old KC135 (707). I got a jolly up with them tanking aircraft. The American way is to 'fly' a boom into a receptical on the aircraft. Usually only the big transports.
The boom operator has joysticks to fly little fins on the boom and once lined up extends into the hole (was it good for you too?
) Not only did they take me up but even let me have a crack tanking a B52 no less. It is a very skilled operation but with the operators help I got a contact. Trouble is those things always STANK of AVTUR (kerosene) and used to leak quite badly at times. I'll see if I can dig out the pics. I wonder why the RAF didnt adopt this method as it would have left the VC10 WITHOUT that horrible donkey dick protrusion on its nose!
I repaint aircraft for Flight Sim and I'm working on one as they used to be before they got messed with (the perfect C Mk1) without the probes and drogues. In the classic white and grey with the blue cheek stripes. I may even make it VX806, the best we had.
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Murray Keene
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