Refueling Mission with 190 th Air National Guard August 9, 2006 with Dionne Loewen.
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Refueling Mission with 190th Air National
Guard
August 9, 2006with Dionne Loewen
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KC-135s on the runway at Forbes Field, Topeka, KS
They have about 20 planes but over half are not air worthy and will be retired this fall.
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This is the truck/ramp we walked up to get into the
plane.
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Back of the KC-135 fuel
planeThe section they let
down to refuel is called the boom.
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I’m in the boom operating room waiting for the plane to come.
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The bombers are coming! Can you see the excitement?
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B-1 bomber coming in for refueling, I got to watch it come in!
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The B-1 bomber is hooking up!
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Still hooked up
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We went to northern New Mexico. Look at all of the irrigation circles!
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Here is the cockpit. The pilots answered many questions we had.
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We flew over the southern tip of the Rocky Mountains! The pictures don’t even
capture the beauty.
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Here is one B-1 bomber flying next
to us. The other bomber was
getting refueled at the time. This
picture was taken from the cockpit.
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I got to sit in the ‘jump seat’ on the decent! It was very cool!