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Link Posted: 4/26/2024 6:48:53 PM EDT
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Do you work for Erickson? I have a good friend that does.
Link Posted: 4/26/2024 6:54:17 PM EDT
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Link Posted: 4/26/2024 6:58:01 PM EDT
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This is the real kind of diversity the military should concentrate on.
Link Posted: 4/26/2024 7:01:20 PM EDT
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Originally Posted By dogsplat:

See how close those blades are to that tanker’s tail?

That’s a nope for me, dog.

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Try doing it at night… over water… zero illum… on NVG’s… with a drogue that’s flopping all over the place because some asshole ‘stabbed the basket’.  


Pucker factor - mildly high.
Link Posted: 4/26/2024 7:03:07 PM EDT
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That is an F-35C that is a pre-production aircraft.
It is CF-01.
It did not have a BUNO.
It the first developmental test carrier variant F-35C fighter jet that was built.


Marine CH-53K lifts a F-35C while refueling from a KC-130
Link Posted: 4/26/2024 7:06:11 PM EDT
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Those super stallions or whatever they call them are awesome.... they fly those things into combat and heavy lift right?
Link Posted: 4/26/2024 7:26:55 PM EDT
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Originally Posted By 1cheapshot:
Is that AI?? Because it doesn’t look right to me.


After seeing Zitiforbreakfast post, I guess it is real. That C-130 fueler looks awful close to those rotor blades in the first picture. That’s some skills keeping the blades from smacking that big donkey dick.
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Marine CH-53K lifts a F-35C while refueling from a KC-130
Link Posted: 4/26/2024 7:30:14 PM EDT
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There's some serious Balls of Steel in all the seats.
Link Posted: 4/26/2024 7:40:38 PM EDT
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Was it refilling the fuel or hydraulic fluid on the CH-53?
Link Posted: 4/26/2024 7:51:37 PM EDT
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Originally Posted By NotJackMiller:

Aw hell that's a navy 130.  That's what I get for posting late without caffeine.
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Go drink some coffee and try again.  USAF

edit,  i'm wrong.  Its navy.
Link Posted: 4/26/2024 8:15:30 PM EDT
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Originally Posted By jeepnik:
Chinook been doing that kind of stuff for decades.
https://i.imgur.com/foJDERk.jpg
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Not even close to the same lbs.
Link Posted: 4/26/2024 8:19:08 PM EDT
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Originally Posted By NotJackMiller:

Aw hell that's a navy 130.  That's what I get for posting late without caffeine.
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Originally Posted By devildog3062:
Originally Posted By NotJackMiller:
It's a three-service orgy.

Two😂

Aw hell that's a navy 130.  That's what I get for posting late without caffeine.

I'm glad I looked first, I thought the 130 was a Marine.
Link Posted: 4/26/2024 8:21:36 PM EDT
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Originally Posted By byron2112:
Those super stallions or whatever they call them are awesome.... they fly those things into combat and heavy lift right?
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That one is a  King Stallion. A whole new aircraft that happens to look like a super stallion.
Link Posted: 4/26/2024 8:32:46 PM EDT
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Originally Posted By ZitiForBreakfast:
https://www.ar15.com/media/mediaFiles/43992/outtheback_jpg-3198420.JPG

Guy I flew with, he retired after I got out, test engineer now at Pax River. He was the FE on board...he posted this and a few others to our group.
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Those blades look like they are pushing major air.
Link Posted: 4/26/2024 8:36:27 PM EDT
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On one hand, it seems cool.

On the other hand, it seems rather Rube Goldberg.
Link Posted: 4/26/2024 8:42:33 PM EDT
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Originally Posted By DirkericPitt:



Go drink some coffee and try again.  USAF
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Originally Posted By DirkericPitt:
Originally Posted By NotJackMiller:

Aw hell that's a navy 130.  That's what I get for posting late without caffeine.



Go drink some coffee and try again.  USAF

I don't recognize the tail code, but it's got pods and baskets.  Enlighten me?
Link Posted: 4/26/2024 8:51:41 PM EDT
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Hercky bird with flaps down to putt-putt along slowly

COOLEST thing I've seen on the internet this week

Link Posted: 4/26/2024 8:53:13 PM EDT
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There is 10' of hose between the white markings...just an FYI for everyone saying its "awfully" close.

Diff angle..

Link Posted: 4/26/2024 8:54:48 PM EDT
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Originally Posted By ZitiForBreakfast:
There is 10' of hose between the white markings...just an FYI for everyone saying its "awfully" close.

Diff angle..

https://pliskindesigns.com/wp-content/uploads/original-155.jpeg
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When you're talking about those things moving at 150 mph held up by nothing but air... thats pretty close.
Link Posted: 4/26/2024 9:08:12 PM EDT
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Link Posted: 4/26/2024 9:23:50 PM EDT
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Originally Posted By ZitiForBreakfast:
https://www.ar15.com/media/mediaFiles/43992/outtheback_jpg-3198420.JPG

Guy I flew with, he retired after I got out, test engineer now at Pax River. He was the FE on board...he posted this and a few others to our group.
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What is going on with the wings and horizontal stabilizers on that F-35?  Paint scheme looks like this might be CF-01, the first C model.
Link Posted: 4/26/2024 10:29:38 PM EDT
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Originally Posted By Hatari:
On one hand, it seems cool.

On the other hand, it seems rather Rube Goldberg.
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So like a great many things in the military?  
Link Posted: 4/30/2024 11:59:55 PM EDT
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Originally Posted By junker46:
Very kick ass.  Wonder who dreamed that up?
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Link Posted: 5/1/2024 12:04:45 AM EDT
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At least this didn't happen.

CH-53e lost control over CH-47 Chinook

Link Posted: 5/1/2024 2:03:22 AM EDT
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neat
Link Posted: 5/1/2024 6:41:33 AM EDT
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Originally Posted By DoubleARon:
At least this didn't happen.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7qQlV5S1kMs
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Link Posted: 5/1/2024 6:45:35 AM EDT
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Originally Posted By NotJackMiller:

I don't recognize the tail code, but it's got pods and baskets.  Enlighten me?
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Nope,  your right,  navy woops.
Link Posted: 5/1/2024 7:01:49 AM EDT
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Originally Posted By MARINE-ORDIE:
Damn right!!
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FWIW, 163310 was originally a USMC bird too. I worked on it when it was assigned to VMGR-234, That one was also lent to the Blue Angels for a season, while their Fat Albert went through Depot at Hill AFB
Link Posted: 5/1/2024 8:12:42 AM EDT
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Originally Posted By Hatari:
On one hand, it seems cool.

On the other hand, it seems rather Rube Goldberg.
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Link Posted: 5/1/2024 8:19:09 AM EDT
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Originally Posted By NotJackMiller:

I don't recognize the tail code, but it's got pods and baskets.  Enlighten me?
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Link Posted: 5/1/2024 8:28:40 AM EDT
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And who said the F35 couldn't fly..

Very cool pic!
Link Posted: 5/1/2024 8:29:12 AM EDT
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Gotta get those F35s flying one way or another...
Link Posted: 5/1/2024 9:15:15 AM EDT
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Originally Posted By GunnyG:
Originally Posted By Hatari:
On one hand, it seems cool.

On the other hand, it seems rather Rube Goldberg.

https://www.ar15.com/media/mediaFiles/12179/IMG_4799-3202676.jpg



lol
Link Posted: 5/1/2024 10:12:16 AM EDT
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I've watched a marine 53 drop a nearly brand new chinook and an apache.  

Also, you’re not cool until you refuel a refueler that is refueling a refueler.  
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Link Posted: 5/1/2024 10:53:44 AM EDT
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Originally Posted By 1cheapshot:


Do you work for Erickson? I have a good friend that does.
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Originally Posted By 1cheapshot:


Do you work for Erickson? I have a good friend that does.

No.  I sent a resume with that as my cover sheet and got a restraining order in the mail.
Don't send him that picture, I think just seeing it is a career ender
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