So, What Did You Do Today?

July 16th, 2008 by Fuzz
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This is what I did:

A HUGE thank you to SMSgt. Connie Bacik for inviting me and to the entire 128th Air Refueling Wing and the 115th Operations Group for being so accommodating!

7 Responses to “So, What Did You Do Today?”

  1. Wendy Says:

    So…how does “Pay at the Pump” work in that situation?

  2. Fuzz Says:

    They kept joking that the receiver pilot has to swipe his card before pumping. They didn’t quite tell us where. :)

  3. claude Says:

    Do you have any idea of how far you had flown? Were you in Wisconsin the entire time?

  4. BD Says:

    How long does it take them to fuel? How fast were you going when you refueled?

  5. Fuzz Says:

    @ Claude - we just flew in a track (640 bravo) around Lake Winnebago. It was actually a little bit wider than Lake Winnebago, but it was all in Wisconsin. I don’t know how many times we lapped, but I know that it was a lot.

    @ BD - They are capable of offloading 6,000lbs. of fuel per minute. The F-16s take the fuel a little slower, though, and they were pumping 5,000 lbs. of fuel in three minutes. :) We were going 350 miles per hour when they did the refueling. The Stratotanker is capable of going well over 500 miles per hour, though.

  6. Phil Says:

    BD- In case you didn’t know jet fuel weighs 6.7 lbs/gal. That comes to almost 900 gal/min offload rate and 745 gallons they took in 3 minutes on the F-16’s.

  7. Jack Says:

    What a waste of taxpayers’ money!