dc 10 lookalike over north wales

[got banned]

whilst on a visit to rhos on sea north wales on thursday 7th september we saw a what looked like a dc ten. there was a fuel tube coming out of the tail. the plane had no marking s and was white all over.does anybody know what this was?:uhoh: :confused:

[Phileas Fogg]

Prpbably one of these:

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[bamcb38c]

if it was white all over prob one of the omni air tankers.

[got banned]

if this was a flight refuelling aircraft .what type of aircraft would use this facility ?

[gingernut]

Its often used to fuel something like this http://www.airliners.net/search/photo.search?regsearch=G-BOIL&distinct_entry=true

especially if your co-pilot is carrying too much weight:)

[Phileas Fogg]

if this was a flight refuelling aircraft .what type of aircraft would use this facility ?

Military aircraft of course :)

[WASALOADIE]

A company named Omega have a DC10 that is adapted for AAR. It was at Fairford this year. Maybe it was working with BAE at Warton for some reason.

[bamcb38c]

i meant omega earlier not omni sorry

[Gordon Fraser]

There was a KC10 Extender on the ground at Leuchar's Airshow on Saturday Sep 9