Then there was some steely-eyed matelot in a Navy Bucc, which had recently been fitted with a probe. Find a passing Victor, join, plug in, fuel flows....but nothing shows on the gauges...
So, muttering curses about the incompetence of the tanker crew, he pokes off and lands.
Being a Navy jet, they fold the wings - then someone swings the radome open and about 200 lb of Avtur gushes forth...
Yes, the jet had been fitted with a probe - but the other part of the mod. hadn't yet been completed - so as yet there was no pipe 'twixt probe and tanks.
I hasten to add that this tale is secondhand, so whether it's actually true or belongs with the 'Shackleton making an approach on a carrier' folklore, I cannot say!