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Henry J Cobb wrote in
: 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. Regards... |
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