Filler Up

[Basil]

The attached picture is of course an F-16 being refuled by a KC-135. Nothing unusual about that, right? Except that this particular F-16 is piloted by the son of a co-worker of mine and a guy I also worked with in the Air Force years ago at Hill AFB, UT. He is being refuled by the KC-135 flown by my son, over Iraq. He and my son went to the same grade school in Utah when I was stationed at Hill (and they lived on our street).

 

[DrEntropy]

That's neat!

 

[drooartz]

Nice shot!

Didn't realize you were stationed at Hill. I've got some friends who work there now (Governor General of our local British car club, drives a nice Spitfire), and my father in-law was an Air Force doctor stationed there (lives in Ogden).

 

[tomshobby]

Much pride in that neighborhood I bet!!

 

[Twosheds]

Four boys about the same age in three close houses in my neighborhood all ended up in aviation. The two brothers across the street from me, 11 months apart, and I became mechanics. The boy in the house next to me, who was my playmate from age five, was too dumb to become a mechanic and had to settle for the Air Force Academy and flying C-5s.

Was it because we were in the pattern for Morgantown Airport?

 

[Nunyas]

I like the AMRAAMs on the wing-tip rails... /bcforum/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/thumbsup.gif


Interesting story... funny how things loop back around like that, isn't it?

 

[vping]

That's a nice memory to capture. Neat.

 

[GB1]

Thanks Chief, the picture is great and the story is even better.

 

[Banjo]

Now that's a family picture!!! Very cool!

 

[judow]

/bcforum/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/banana.gif How cool is that!! /bcforum/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/banana.gif

 

[Bugeye58]

Nice shot, but I prefer the view from the receiver. /bcforum/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/grin.gif
Jeff

 

[Shinsen774]

I got to ride in the boom operator's position for a while on a KC-135 on a trip the Defense Department took some business leaders on a couple of years ago. It was a great view.

 

[DNK]

Basil- Hopefully one day your son will be piloting 767 tankers.
By the way what is the pilot doing with that 1 hand?

 

[aeronca65t]

That's an awesome picture!

My local newspaper (The Star Ledger) ran a story a few years ago where a husband and wife were both in the NJ Air National Guard. She flew the boom on a KC-135 and he was a jet jockey. Eventually, they figured that they'd "hook up", which they did......funny on all sorts of levels.

My neighbor's kid flys a KC-135 for the National Guard. He lives in the Pittsburgh area.

 

[Basil]

Basil- Hopefully one day your son will be piloting 767 tankers.
By the way what is the pilot doing with that 1 hand?

Not what you're thinking.

 

[bugimike]

Too Cool!! Story and pic!! /bcforum/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/thumbsup.gif