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Travel Like A Boss: Onboard A US Air Force KC-10 Extender

by Josh Wolff (RSS feed) on Nov 30th 2012 at 11:00AM

During Air Force Week earlier this year, the team at Gadling Labs was invited out to witness a demonstration of the KC-10 Extender refueling four F-15 aircraft over the open sky just off the coast of Cape Cod.

We took a morning Air Train to meet the departing crew out of New York's JFK Airport. Manned by a crew of nearly a dozen, the Extender's mission is to refuel aircraft in flight, but their hospitality and attitudes on this day were just as awe inspiring. It was a great trip, and we're thankful to the folks in the Air Force who invited us along on their journey.

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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 2)

deano Dec 2nd 2012 9:35AM

Pilot in the fighter, was like- "Thanks for the juice, I'm outta here". That was cool

moe Dec 2nd 2012 10:44AM

Being on the flight deck of a plane being refueled is impressive too. The tanker people are totally professinal and clear concise comms between boom operator and pilot recieving fuel is critical. All too much of our ability to project power and to react to world events revolves around the men and women crewing those tankers.

kcoons Dec 2nd 2012 9:43AM

Cathy, why are you such a commerical whore. What does your post have to do with this article? Absolutely nothing...go away.

Skip Dec 2nd 2012 10:24AM

The fighter pilot's rolling exit was very cool, but this report was lame. About 90% of it was an attempt to be funny, which it was not. Like most Huffington/AOL reports, most of the coverage is unprofessional, insipid, and devoid of any true reportorial skill.

Dude Dec 2nd 2012 1:08PM

Yep..for sure

tomp Dec 2nd 2012 6:51PM

Can you write a better article?

Paul Bogosian Dec 2nd 2012 11:32AM

A potentially cool package reduced to meaningless blather.

TOM Dec 2nd 2012 7:23PM

you meant what an incredible video!"to type "Wow!

shocarsone Dec 2nd 2012 1:01PM

10 seconds of what was advertised, and 2 minutes of some idiot allowed to run around a KC-10. The AF must be hard up for advertisement. We need to do a little better.

Francis ring Dec 2nd 2012 1:19PM

How lame!!! This could have been interesting and showed how dangerous midair refueling is and how hard the aircrews work to accomplish it. Allowing idiots like this film crew to produce a report like this was a waste of time and increasewd the danger to the aircrew.

Theactionwriter Dec 11th 2012 10:55PM

I agree Francess---anyone that has flown KC-10 as a space available PAX knows ou are not allowed out of your seat while refueling AND you are not allowed on the flight deck at any time

Russ Sykes Dec 2nd 2012 1:54PM

Weak! Very weak. Maybe you should stick to reporting on the Kardashians.

tom Dec 2nd 2012 7:20PM

hey! russy Baby: this article and video was great!

Theactionwriter Dec 2nd 2012 1:57PM

Paul:
I fly on KC-10 as a retitred veteran and space Available status. It is a whole different world in respect to free travel as a benefit. Take a look at the procedure on spacea.net or pepperd.com.
Come fly with us.

wwklink Dec 2nd 2012 2:16PM

A real serious subject completely besmirched by a Huffington twinkie

J J SHAN Dec 2nd 2012 2:59PM

WHERE DO YOU FIND THE STUPID IDIOTS THAT PUT THESE SHOWS ON THAT SHOW US NOTHING BUT THE REPORTERS STUPIDITY ???

Barry Fennell Dec 2nd 2012 5:57PM

Those refrueling crews are a group of consciencious and dedicated professional airmen. This idiotic display of "humor" does nothing except to except to denigrate there work. In particular watch the boom operator ignoring the stupidity of the reporter. The flight deck crew has to insure that the flight path and all it's parts are perfectly aligned and along with the fighter pilot are also perfectly aligned. In particulary the boom operator has to make sure that that boom is inserrted into a 4 or six inch receptical so he wont't punch a hole in the aircraft. A group of aircraft crews do not need a sarcstic and stupid "funny man" rediculing the the work of truly profession people.