AAR Footage

[Prat At The Back]

Some nice AAR footage on youtube:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mNtmNkan4wY

and

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=srsMCJPTujE&feature=related

and some when it goes wrong. EEK

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ckOaHGMEQ68&feature=related

[Gainesy]

Nice, anyone know what the music is in the second vid please?

[TACAN]

Second vid is accompanied by a VANGELIS track. Can't remember the title off hand but will check later if you still need to know :)

TAC

[ZH875]

"Dooby Dooby Doo, Dooby Dooby :mad: Doo"


'To the Unknown Man' - Vangelis.

I still hate that :mad: 12(B) Sqn Video.



The VC10 even looks good in the dark.

[Lurking123]

Those of us who joined the RAF in the early/mid 80's would have seen the precursor to the second video at our local CIO. ISTR it involved VC10s, Victors, Lightnings, Buccs, Jags, Harrier GR3s and exactly the same music.

[Gainesy]

ZH :) and thank you.

[SirToppamHat]

Those of us who joined the RAF in the early/mid 80's would have seen the precursor to the second video at our local CIO.

I certainly remember the music, but the main thing I remember about the video (I think!) was Buccs fling from Gib armed with Martel TVGMs. No doubt someone will tell me I am wrong.

Gainesy

Check your PMs.

STH

[advocatusDIABOLI]

Gents,

Respect for those Hornet guys. :ok: Very smooth and controlled contacts in what is, without doubt (in my opinion) the most difficult of tanking. ie "Donkey's Dick", from a KC135.

Actually, probably the most challenging thing you can ever do in a Tornado! (Not withstanding crashing it:ugh:)

Advo

[Prat At The Back]

PIO I suspect

[Green Flash]

Me no expert but I believe it's called 'chasing the hose'

[BEagle]

Interesting footage.

Most of the 'alarming' shots seem to involve the C-160 tanker and cowboy receivers. Although the last video shows what looks like poor hose tension control - presumably from some ancient Sargent Fletcher piece of sh...., piece of kit. As was also to be seen in another yoof-tube clip http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RGMlriUTab4 involving an AMX...

Because the refuelling operator failed to notice errant hose behaviour and stop the receiver, a contact was made against a hose whose tension control system had failed. Hence the hose whip and loss of drogue... The AMX ended up with a cracked canopy and a myriad of skin punctures from the 15m of steel wire still attached to the drogue.

In 20 years of AAR I only refused 1 receiver and almost another. The 'almost' was a Luftwaffe Tornado ECR which developed a severe roll divergence - we later established it was the squadron boss who had been 'too busy' to attend the briefing..:hmm: The one I did refuse was a FAF Mirage over Chateauroux, who had no idea what the signal lights meant...

AAR needs to be formal as it is the only routinely flown formation exercise which doesn't require a pre-flight formation brief. So everyone must stick to the rules - unlike that tw.at rolling inverted off the Transall.

The world's only 21st century probe and drogue tanker in service, the A310MRTT, has a very stable drogue system thanks to extensive aerodynamic improvements developed by Elbeflugzeugwerke during the early flight test campaign. Unlike that ridiculously nutating C-160 hose.....

As for the CH-53? Yes, a PIO after a 'basket chase'. Fortunately the Spams make those aircraft out of strong stuff, so he didn't lose a blade and die.

[MrBernoulli]

BEagle, what is a "A310MRTT"? Sounds like a model of car that a hairdresser would drive ........ :ok:

[BEagle]

Oi, MrB, are you casting nasturtiums at my supercharged Teutonic tourer? Although I know little of hairdressers, I'd rather drive a reliable 354 bhp Tcherman Wunderwagen than some product of the British boilermaking industry made largely of wood with various flapping canvas bits - and which is as likely as not to expire in a cloud of steam after depositing pieces of oily pig iron on the Queen's highway when required to attempt a journey longer than down to whichever nearby pub still serves 'real ale' with bits of wood floating in it!

And it doesn't have pink seats. Not at all - they're 'Designo Bordeaux' according to Mercedes :rolleyes:!

Anyway, as I'm sure you know, this is an A310MRTT:

http://i14.photobucket.com/albums/a341/nw969/mrtt2.jpg

[Green Flash]

'real ale' with bits of wood floating in it

BEags - it's something to chew on! A meal in a pint! Just watch out for splinters the morning after:eek:

[FOGII]

The first two times in Ch-53Es it was the same pilot. First time he was under instruction as a co-pilot. The second time he had just become an instructor in helo A/R and was demonstrating.

I’ve seen the photos of one probe. The rotors missed the hose but chopped off the probe which was brought back by the KC-130.

S/F, FOG