Friday, April 29, 2022

Is that a refueling port there in the front?

 


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  1. Yes.

    B-47

    Beautiful teardrop fuselage.

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  2. Thought that was a B-47. Beautiful aircraft.

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  3. If the Eco-Wackos get their way he'll be looking for a KC-135 Recharging Station.

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    1. KC135s are slowly being replaced by KC46, at least here at McConnell AFB in Wichita. My Dad used to wrench on the old B47s in the 50s. There is a B47 displayed near the front gate of McConnell AFB. I think of Dad every time I drive by it.
      -Snakepit

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  4. Refueling port? Nah. that's where you load the beer keg.....

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  5. That is the photon torpedo hatch.

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  6. ...well its not the poop shoot!...that would take "pissin' into the wind" to the extreme!

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  7. See one often driving by the static display area at Boeing Museum of Flight on one side of the road, and a line of KC-46s on the other in the military flight test and finish area of Boeing Field. Lots to see at the Flight Museum.

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  8. Dad was Radar/Navigator/Bombardier in B-47's in the 380th Bomber Wing in Plattsburgh, New York. And yes - thats a probe type refueling port. When he transfered out of SAC and we moved to Texas I never saw another B-47 till I was doing field support engieering and went to Altus AFB Oklahoma on a trip to fix a C-5B. There one sat in a park. Still there as far as I know.

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  9. There is a B-47 sitting on a pad visible from I-95 at the 8th Air Force Museum in Pooler, GA, very near Savannah. I see it every time I drive down that way. The RB-47 reconnaissance versions did some serious work in the cold war, overflying Russia on many occasions.

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  10. See it in action here - http://www.wattflyer.com/forums/attachment.php?attachmentid=131988&stc=1&d=1279346904

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  11. Looks like they left the gas cap off at the station.

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