Keith Willshaw wrote:
"Dan" wrote in message
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Keith Willshaw wrote:
"guy" wrote in message
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On 3 June, 22:01, Peter Twydell wrote:
Did they not develop a system to refuel Tiger Force Lancasters/
Lincolns for the assault on Japan?
Guy
Yes. In January 1944 three different designs had been prepared, the
third of which was adopted. In this the hose-drum and equipment was
placed towards the front of the aircraft and the fuel supply
consisted of two 640 imperial gallon (2,880 litres) tanks in the bomb
bay.
50 sets of equipment were ordered for development and training. It
was then intended to convert a total of 500 tanker and receiver
aircraft to mount the long-range operations.
Trials for the Tiger Force operation were carried out with the
prototype Lancaster tanker PB.972 and receiver ND.648, using the
looped hose system. It was found that refuelling could be carried out
at an indicated airspeed of 160 mph at any reasonable altitude, over
or in cloud and at night, there being no difficulty in illuminating
the receiver's hauling cable.
Then the Americans went and dropped a couple of really big bombs.
Keith
Come on, Keith, those bombs weren't all that big.
The bang they made was 
Keith
There you go using technical terms again.
Dan, U.S. Air Force, retired