Can tanker aircraft draw off all their onboard fuel?

From: KenG
Date: 12/1/2003 5:16 PM Central Standard Time
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Even the KC-135Q could burn body tank fuel. IIRC They could fly on JP7,
but were limited to enroute flight, and not TO, Landing, and a few other
instances.


B2431 wrote:
From: Hobo
Date: 11/30/2003 10:07 PM Central Standard Time
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Can a tanker aircraft draw on the fuel they carry to refuel other
planes, or are they limited to the fuel that model of plane would
normally carry?


With the exception of specially modified tankers like the KC-135s used to
refuel SR-71s they can use all the fuel on board.

The SR-71 uses a different fuel than the 135.

Dan, U. S. Air Force, retired

I stand corrected.

Dan, U. S. Air Force, retired

"B2431" wrote in message
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I stand corrected.

The little chimp must be back on his meds.

From: "Tarver Engineering"
Date: 12/10/2003 2:22 PM Central Standard Time
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"B2431" wrote in message
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I stand corrected.

The little chimp must be back on his meds.

And you once again resort to personal insults.

At least I admit when I I am wrong. You never have.

Dan, U. S. Air Force, retired

Hobo writes:


Can a tanker aircraft draw on the fuel they carry to refuel other
planes, or are they limited to the fuel that model of plane would
normally carry?

I got a private tour of a RAF ?Victor? tanker a few decades ago.
It came across for an air show (with good beer aboard..).
"Say, don't pull anything yellow & black" we were warned.

The crew member in charge of such things showed me the fuel manifold
panel and pointed out it had no separate "our" tankage...if he
screwed up, they all swam.


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