July 16th, 2008 by Fuzz
Tagged as: 115th Operations Group, 128th Refueling Wing, wisconsin air national guard.
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!
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July 16th, 2008 at 6:06 pm
So…how does “Pay at the Pump” work in that situation?
July 16th, 2008 at 6:09 pm
They kept joking that the receiver pilot has to swipe his card before pumping. They didn’t quite tell us where.
July 16th, 2008 at 9:43 pm
Do you have any idea of how far you had flown? Were you in Wisconsin the entire time?
July 17th, 2008 at 11:27 am
How long does it take them to fuel? How fast were you going when you refueled?
July 17th, 2008 at 11:42 am
@ 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.
July 17th, 2008 at 8:46 pm
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.
July 24th, 2008 at 2:15 pm
What a waste of taxpayers’ money!