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Re: AWACS Refueling Close Call
« Reply #1 on: October 18, 2012, 10:32:03 AM »
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Re: AWACS Refueling Close Call
« Reply #2 on: October 18, 2012, 11:07:45 AM »
wow is right!
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Re: AWACS Refueling Close Call
« Reply #3 on: October 18, 2012, 11:13:07 AM »
close call...very close.

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Re: AWACS Refueling Close Call
« Reply #4 on: October 18, 2012, 11:53:50 AM »
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Re: AWACS Refueling Close Call
« Reply #5 on: October 18, 2012, 12:22:08 PM »
isnt this an old video too?  I remember seeing it several years ago.  what is this:  see who can come up with the oldest video and make it look like it just happened?


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Re: AWACS Refueling Close Call
« Reply #6 on: October 18, 2012, 02:30:37 PM »
isnt this an old video too?  I remember seeing it several years ago.  what is this:  see who can come up with the oldest video and make it look like it just happened?


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I had never seen it so it was new to me, regardless.

I am happy it was posted.
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Re: AWACS Refueling Close Call
« Reply #7 on: October 18, 2012, 02:34:45 PM »
Ive never seen that...that looks crazy. Was it some weird jetwash or pilot error? Wind?

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Re: AWACS Refueling Close Call
« Reply #8 on: October 18, 2012, 03:41:03 PM »
isnt this an old video too?  I remember seeing it several years ago.  what is this:  see who can come up with the oldest video and make it look like it just happened?


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Re: AWACS Refueling Close Call
« Reply #9 on: October 18, 2012, 04:11:00 PM »
I believe it may have been the KC135 (assuming?) pitched down not the AWACS, look at the horizon  :headscratch:
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Re: AWACS Refueling Close Call
« Reply #10 on: October 18, 2012, 04:48:53 PM »
I believe it may have been the KC135 (assuming?) pitched down not the AWACS, look at the horizon  :headscratch:

Little to hazy for me to tell but you never know in these situations. People seem to forget how tough this is because its become common practice. It requires such coordination by both pilots.

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Re: AWACS Refueling Close Call
« Reply #11 on: October 18, 2012, 05:05:48 PM »
OMG, I actually jumped. That was scary. Whoever's fault it was. That was really close.

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Re: AWACS Refueling Close Call
« Reply #12 on: October 18, 2012, 05:08:47 PM »
Little to hazy for me to tell but you never know in these situations. People seem to forget how tough this is because its become common practice. It requires such coordination by both pilots.

Neither does Redbull, he just copied and pasted someone else's comment from the YouTube comments section.

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Re: AWACS Refueling Close Call
« Reply #13 on: October 18, 2012, 05:28:20 PM »
oh man, that gave me a bad feeling in my stomach, way too close!
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Re: AWACS Refueling Close Call
« Reply #14 on: October 18, 2012, 06:22:53 PM »
I just watched it . The 135 never changes vector till the boom operator yells gogogo
Sooo....What , are those guys here to kill you because God forgot too ?

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