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Quite an improvement over this wing-walker method! The fuel is transferred in a can strapped to a man's back as he moves from the Lincoln Standard to the Curtiss Jenny - but it worked!

Aerial Refueling.jpg


Finally in 1927, a hose was used. Progress moves at a snail's pace.
 
We get to see the soon-to-be-retired KC-135's overhead almost daily here.

Hard to believe I got to shoot photos of and from them as part of an essay back in the early '70's.
 
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