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Awac Refuelling Brown-trouser Moment

thowman From United Kingdom, joined Jul 2004, 359 posts, RR: 3
Posted (7 months 1 day 9 hours ago) and read 5814 times:

Nasty moment while refuelling a NATO E-3. Fun starts around 24 seconds.

http://youtu.be/A4O8kaKMv_U

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HaveBlue From United States of America, joined Jan 2004, 2069 posts, RR: 1
Reply 1, posted (7 months 1 day 4 hours ago) and read 5636 times:

Holy crap! That is crazy! Glad it turned out okay, but phew!

As the top rated comment on this video states: "Dude any time a 300,000 pound aircraft separates from the tanker there are aerodynamic forces that cannot be avoided. The AWACS starts down without moving aft, when all that low pressure is acting on the horizontal stab the auto-pilot starts to trim to equalize those forces. That’s what you see. The tanker crew did everything right out of the -1 and vol. 3. Hope that helps. And by the way I was there in the boom pod yelling GO GO GO after clamly performing breakaway procedures." Mr. Philkok

Here Here for Severe Clear!

txjim From United States of America, joined May 2008, 197 posts, RR: 0
Reply 2, posted (6 months 4 weeks 1 day 1 hour ago) and read 4852 times:

Video was removed by the user....

moose135 From United States of America, joined Oct 2004, 2009 posts, RR: 12
Reply 3, posted (6 months 4 weeks 1 day ago) and read 4799 times:

Quoting txjim (Reply 2):
Video was removed by the user....

Maybe someone higher up in the food chain didn't like that it was getting so much attention...

KC-135 - Passing gas and taking names!

SSTeve From United States of America, joined Dec 2011, 434 posts, RR: 0
Reply 4, posted (6 months 4 weeks 22 hours ago) and read 4706 times:

Quoting moose135 (Reply 3):
Maybe someone higher up in the food chain didn't like that it was getting so much attention...

One of the comments sure seemed to reflect that.

Not a great idea to play chicken with a billion bucks of airplane.

Oroka From Canada, joined Dec 2006, 787 posts, RR: 0
Reply 5, posted (6 months 4 weeks 21 hours ago) and read 4685 times:

Video has been removed by user

ryu2 From Taiwan, joined Aug 2002, 460 posts, RR: 0
Reply 6, posted (6 months 4 weeks 20 hours ago) and read 4660 times:

Alternate link:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vbQ9LXZwJ78&feature=related

checksixx From United States of America, joined Mar 2005, 996 posts, RR: 0
Reply 7, posted (6 months 4 weeks 15 hours ago) and read 4514 times:

Quoting SSTeve (Reply 4):
Not a great idea to play chicken with a billion bucks of airplane.

Certainly not the case in the video...and nowhere near a billion dollars of airplane going on there.

nomadd22 From United States of America, joined Feb 2008, 1561 posts, RR: 0
Reply 8, posted (6 months 4 weeks 8 hours ago) and read 4363 times:

The AF throws around a $270 million figure for an AWACS. Not sure about the 135 but it's kind of hard to put a $ value on an out of production, non replaceable asset. I'm not sure how you price the crew. I think I was valued at around $127.50 when I was a grunt.

Andy Goetsch

windy95 From United States of America, joined Dec 2008, 2555 posts, RR: 5
Reply 9, posted (6 months 4 weeks 8 hours ago) and read 4359 times:

Having seen many refuelings and even some that went wrong I rather enjoyed all the youtube comments instead of the video itself. Amazing how many people who gave their

who have no clue as to what is going on.

OMG-Obama Must Go

SSTeve From United States of America, joined Dec 2011, 434 posts, RR: 0
Reply 10, posted (6 months 4 weeks 3 hours ago) and read 4227 times:

Quoting nomadd22 (Reply 8):
The AF throws around a $270 million figure for an AWACS. Not sure about the 135 but it's kind of hard to put a $ value on an out of production, non replaceable asset.

I was thinking replacement value for both... which is a lot. And I of course rounded up to the nearest billion.

thowman From United Kingdom, joined Jul 2004, 359 posts, RR: 3
Reply 11, posted (6 months 4 weeks ago) and read 4151 times:

Quoting nomadd22 (Reply 8):
The AF throws around a $270 million figure for an AWACS.

Good job it was a NATO AWACS then!

135mech From United States of America, joined Oct 2006, 356 posts, RR: 2
Reply 12, posted (6 months 3 weeks 6 days 22 hours ago) and read 4080 times:

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Quoting nomadd22 (Reply 8):
The AF throws around a $270 million figure for an AWACS. Not sure about the 135 but it's kind of hard to put a $ value on an out of production, non replaceable asset. I'm not sure how you price the crew. I think I was valued at around $127.50 when I was a grunt.

Two years ago, I was informed (while still working them) that the est (replacement) value was at $53M.

135Mech

sweair From Sweden, joined Nov 2011, 1550 posts, RR: 0
Reply 13, posted (6 months 3 weeks 5 days ago) and read 3545 times:

Holy that looked scary, was it as close as it looks? Might be the angle it was filmed at?

AWACSooner From United States of America, joined Jan 2008, 1415 posts, RR: 1
Reply 14, posted (6 months 3 weeks 4 days 16 hours ago) and read 3428 times:

It's created a bit of a firestorm around here...basically we're all talking about it and using as a valuable lesson on what NOT to do during separation procedures.

KC135Hydraulics From United States of America, joined Nov 2012, 165 posts, RR: 0
Reply 15, posted (6 months 1 week 4 hours ago) and read 2490 times:

Someone should thank that boomer for keeping the boom in one piece saving us a boom change! Look at those reflexes. BTW, for the boom to disconnect and auto-retract like that, the AWACS had to have been within 6ft of the ice shield on the boom. That's pretty close to begin with, then add in that porpoise move there. Close one!

dkswim From United States of America, joined Sep 2010, 29 posts, RR: 0
Reply 16, posted (6 months 6 days 15 hours ago) and read 2489 times:

One of my buddies was a former boom opperator, he told me a story that happened to him. He was refulling a fully loaded C-5 with a new pilot at the wheel. After conclusion of the refulling the new pilot didnt do a proper disconnect and decended, sucking the air out from under him and him riding the rollercoster in the back.

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