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https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zo...n-reliably-show-the-end-of-the-refueling-boom
Kind of reminds me of the anecdote about how NASA spent a million dollars creating a pen that could write in zero gravity. Russia used a pencil. The KC-135 and KC-10 use a boom operator looking out a window, a system that has worked for over half a century. Someone in the Pentagon wanted something high tech.
Kind of reminds me of the anecdote about how NASA spent a million dollars creating a pen that could write in zero gravity. Russia used a pencil. The KC-135 and KC-10 use a boom operator looking out a window, a system that has worked for over half a century. Someone in the Pentagon wanted something high tech.