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Alan Minyard wrote in message . ..
I don't recall ever seeing a probe on a SAAB and I thought probe and drogue was the "Brit method". AIUI, everyone but the USAF uses probe-and-drogue (USN, NATO countries other than USAF, people who buy their jets, etc.). Buddy refueling is a tremendous advantage for people operating tactical jets, and so they use probe-and-drogue. The USAF, though, needed (and still needs) much higher flow rates to keep their enormous aircraft in the sky. For uniformity, the USAF went to booms for all of their aircraft, even for the tactical jets that don't need those flow rates. The Soviets worked out some crazy-fool system involving passing the fuel from wing-tip to wing-tip for their big thirsty jets, I seem to recall. Though I'm not sure what Backfire and Blackjack used, the wing system was for the Badger, I do believe. No guarentee's on this info; it's based on memory of an article I read several years ago. Chris Manteuffel |
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