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F-16 Refueling Mission
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So every time I go to update my blog I think to myself, “hey, I should post that refueling picture from last May that I still haven’t gotten around to posting.” And yet I always forget to do so. Anyway, here it is. My assignment was to go up in a KC-135 refueling plane and photograph and film the crew refueling F-16s mid-air. We were traveling at 500+ mph groundspeed at altitude when these F-16s which were training over the Nevada desert would fly in out of nowhere, attach to the plane I was in, refuel their tanks in a matter of minutes, detach, and zoom on past like we were standing still. It was all very impressive. The pilots even let me in the cockpit to film while they were landing. Anyway, thanks for looking as always questions, comments, complaints and concerns are always welcome.
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