Agreed...refueling of the short hose drogue on the KC-135 could be tricky..indeed I know someone
who dented the intake ramp of an F-4 when they got the kink in the the short hosed drogue of the KC-135 wrong. The hose whipped round and clobbered the fixed, forward portion of the intake ramp...gave the back seater a shock, I understand he said
As for doing it with a Vulcan or a Victor
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Okay then regarding the BDA.
And some very amusing comments regarding the Hollywood movie version, (and didn't Channel4 comic strip-Robbie Coltran etc have a bit of a retelling).
However no one has yet mentioned the most famous conspiracy of them all - that the whole thing was faked up at Pinewood studios - on the 007 stage, which is why there was no James Bond film that year - All to secure the reelection and subsequent empowerment, of a PM who peviously had been very unpopular.
Oh uh, isn't that one of those black omegas....