Henry J Cobb wrote in
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Bjørnar Bolsøy wrote:
I would be very greatful if anyone could point me to a good
online resource on the history of tankers and air-refueling.

Start here
http://globalsecurity.org/military/s...aft/tanker.htm

A thousend thank's. It soon led me to this:

http://www.fas.org/man/dod-101/sys/ac/tanker.htm

In 1921, stunt pilot, Wesley May, put on a "refueling"
demonstration for a crowd at Long Beach, California. May
strapped a gas can to his back and walked out to the wing
tip of his Lincoln Standard biplane, stepped onto the wing
skid of a Curtis JN-4 and poured five gallons of fuel into
the Jenny's tank. This feat was proclaimed the first
"air-to-air" refueling.



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