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Members of the 121st Air Refueling Wing refuel an F-15E Strike Eagle from the 4th Fighter Wing at Seymour Johnson Air Force Base, N.C., using a KC-135A Stratotanker Sept. 11, 2014, off the coast of North Carolina during an exercise. The 121st ARW is from the Rickenbacker Air National Guard Base, Ohio. (U.S. Air National Guard photo by Airman 1st Class Wendy Kuhn/Released)
NJ Transit tanker truck P16144 is seen at Orange Station refueling tie handler TH 501 (Knox Kershaw model KTC1200) and other track equipment working in the area.
Quite a technically challenging shot, lots of light leaking into the scene from external ambient lighting, huge contrast in light between the helicopter and the lights around the helideck. It also never helped that the platform that I was on was moving in comparison to the helideck, so that ruled out longer exposures.
If only it was calm weather / longer to arrange the shot / I had more selection of equipment than one body and lens combo!!!
Alas, it is what it is.. The Sikorsky S92 helicopter being refueled at night.
A KC-135 Stratotanker from Fairchild Air Force Base, Wash., refuels a B-1B Lancer during a training exercise Sept. 23, 2014, over South Dakota. For more than 50 years the KC-135 has provided the core aerial refueling capability for the Air Force. The aircraft can travel up to 1,500 miles with 150,000 pounds of transfer fuel, which enables the Air Force to project rapid, flexible military power. The B-1B is assigned to Ellsworth Air Force Base, South Dakota. (U.S. Air Force photo by Senior Airman Mary O'Dell/Released)
Marmalade hoverfly on a common corn-cockle blossom
(Episyrphus balteatus et Agrostemma githago)
Nachtanken
Hainschwebfliege auf der BlĂĽte einer Kornrade
Ancillary lens/Vorsatzlinse: Leitz Elpro 2/VIb
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.......... short-term visiter (cat) / Kurzzeitbesucher (Katze) ...........
...................... a visit to the zoo / ein Besuch im Zoo ....................
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A Royal Norwegian Air Force F-16 Fighting Falcon prepares for a refuel from a KC-135 Stratotanker assigned to Royal Air Force Mildenhall, England, during a training sortie Sept. 5, 2014, over Norway. The KC-135 was part of a four-ship, which enables tankers to provide concentrated aerial refueling support for large forces during major operations. (U.S. Air Force photo by Senior Airman Christine Griffiths/Released)
The three Union Pacific locos get a mid-journey refuel and check over at the fueling racks at Rawlins, WY.
Lt. Col. Casey maneuvers into position behind a 151st Air Refueling Wing KC-135 Stratotanker to receive fuel during a training mission near a range in Utah on Jan. 18, 2013. Casey is a a pilot from the 421st Fighter Squadron, Hill Air Force Base, Utah. (U.S. Air Force photo/Staff Sgt. Stephany Richards)
A B-2 Spirit approaches the refueling boom of a KC-135 Stratotanker, April 2, 2014, over New Jersey. Air Force ROTC cadets observed the refueling as part of an orientation flight program. The KC-135 is assigned to the 108th Wing, New Jersey Air National Guard. The B-2 is assigned to the 509th Bomb Wing, Whiteman Air Force Base, Mo. (U.S. Air National Guard photo by Master Sgt. Mark C. Olsen/Released)
Buzzer; That bloody scrapheap of yours thirsty again Ripper?
Ripper; Piss off Buzzer, my ass has turned into wooden plank. We've been driving for hours looking for those Joes, and I'm f#cking done with it. I'm gonna get me some donuts and a take a piss...
Torch: Get some grape soda when your at it, Pinokkio...
Ripper; Watch it Torch, or I'll carve you into a 'real little boy'!
Buddy of mine that I used to work with in Tokyo now lives in New Mexico. He flew in over the Thanksgiving weekend to pay us a visit.
Picture of his plane getting refueled before his 4 hour flight back home to Sante Fe (a journey that takes at least 12 hours without stops in a car). Btw, he made it just under 4hrs due to a tailwind...
Corona Airport, California.
With the light rapidly fading at the end of a sunny Mediterranean day, USS McCloy (FF-1038), the second and final Bronstein-class frigate, is beginning an UNREP in the Mediterranean in the summer of 1982. The crew are heaving in the line that will eventually pull across a hose for connection to the fuel receptor mounted at the rear of the helipad, aft of the heavy jackstay being used for hauling the hose across.
Aft of all that activity, on the quarterdeck, is an early towed-array sonar in operation. It is probably the AN/SQR-15 Passive Anti-Submarine Towed Array Sonar Surveillance System (TASS). The ship was tracking a Soviet submarine at the time of the evolution seen above, so unusually, we approached alongside her, rather than the more normal process of the recipient approaching us. This was to ensure that they array remained as stable as possible so as not to distort the picture being obtained. Apparently the ship's efforts were successful as McCloy received a Meritorious Unit Commendation (MUC) for unsurpassed ASW accomplishments from 8 June to 22 December 1982 during this deployment.
Named after one of only 19 men to win two Medals of Honor (in China and Mexico!), the McCloy was originally commissioned in 1963 as a destroyer escort and redesignated as a frigate in 1975. She was decommissioned from the US Navy in December 1990 and sold to the Mexican Navy in 1993 where she became the ARM Nicolás Bravo (F201), remaining in service until 2017.
I took the image from the signal deck of the USS Mount Baker (AE-34), an ammunition ship in the US Sixth Fleet at the time, which I was aboard for the summer.
Scanned from a slide.
Sometime between May and December 1959, RAF Station Gan, Addu Atoll, Maldive Islands.
Aboard the Royal Navy Frigate HMS St. Brides Bay F600, looking towards the RFA (Royal Fleet Auxiliary) refuelling tanker 'Wave Laird', preparing to make a RAS - refuelling at Sea, off Addu Atoll (Gan), Maldives.
Between 1957 and 1959 my father worked for the MOD (Ministry of Defence) as the power station manager at the RAF base. During these years the airbase, runway and facilities were being enlarged and updated.
I believe life was rather tedious on the island, so any opportunity to enliven things was welcomed. The Frigate was based at Gan for about 7 months in 1959 as Guardship.
Just how my father came to be on the Frigate can only be guessed. I assume that the Frigate's officers & crew would have been made more than welcome ashore, & an invitation to be aboard at the refuelling may have been made.
This was clearly a well planned refuelling event, the Wave Laird most probably having to load it's cargo of fuel oils at Singapore.
RAF Gan en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RAF_Gan
St Brides Bay F600 - en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMS_St_Brides_Bay_(K600)
WAVE LAIRD - en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RFA_Wave_Laird_(A119)
This image was scanned from a slide.
A U.S. Marine Corps CH-53 Super Stallion from the Heavy Marine Helicopter 464 Detachment A and a U.S. Air Force HH-60 Pave Hawk from the 303rd ExpediRonary Rescue Squadron refuel from a U.S. Air Force MC-130 from the 81st ExpediRonary Rescue Squadron during a familiarizaRon flight, Jan. 29, 2013. The HMH-464 relinquished the Marines’ 10-year personnel recovery mission to the newly formed 303rd EQRS. The squadron will continue to ensure CJTF-HOA provides responsive medical evacuation support and personnel recovery for all U.S. personnel in East Africa.
(U.S. Air Force photo by Staff Sgt. Jonathan Young)
An F-16 Fighting Falcon approaches a KC-135 Stratotanker for refueling during Red Flag 14-2 March 13, 2014, over the Nevada Test and Training Range. During Red Flag, mid-air refueling allowed aircraft to save time and quickly get back into the fight without having to return to the ground to refuel. The KC-135 is assigned to the 350th Air Refueling Squadron at McConnell Air Force Base, Kan. (U.S. Air Force photo by Airman 1st Class Timothy Young/Released)