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As a Boom Operator, I'm always struck by how time-consuming air refueling can be—things often move slowly. This video starts off steady, but the potential for danger is ever-present. While not as dramatic as some clips, this breakaway shows just how risky these operations are.
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Loving the wobbly engines!

I like watching that too.

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Couple questions. Is it true that you can actually steer the acft. with the boom. Heard a story of a 135 refueling a B52 and boom broke off and the B52 landed looking like a unicorn.

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The engines shaking tells me there must be a good amount of chop. Lining that thing up for the boom can't be easy, even harder when getting bumped around. I would have tasted my skivvies at the end though!

The booms not moving much, so it's a very light turbulance if any.

Always wild to see angine nacelles get all wobbly like those there. Aircraft engineering is fun!

Feels like the receiver is a newby in the right seat....clear air, no turn, but it feels like he/she is working really, really hard. At some point the A/C may need to just plug in and go....

Probably correct, he seems a little unsteady on the power, maybe he's new, maybe he hasn't refueled in a while, or maybe the tanker pilot threw him a curve (with a power change.) I've sat in the cockpit in the KC-10 for receiver AR many times, those throttle movements are so small you can't even really tell the pilot is making them, so small I've seen instructors place their hands over a students hands on the throttles so they could feel exactly what the student's doing with the power, and make corrections too when needed.

Small AR respectable
