Seventy-five Years of Inflight Refueling: Highlights, 1923-1998

1st Lt aerial refueling Air Corps Air Refueling Aircraft and Weapons airlift airliners airplane airport airship Alan Cobham altitude American Atcherly aviation Azores bases became biplanes Boeing bomb bombers British Capt carrier carry crew delivered developed distance Douglas drogue engine England flew Flight Refuelling Limited flown flying boat FOX PETER FRL's fuselage gallons of fuel Goose Bay Hawaii helicopter Hickam AFB hose Imperial Airways inflight refueling Iraq Japan Kuwait Labrador Lajes Lancaster later LeMay load Lockheed Lucky Lady Martin B-10 miles military minutes mission nonstop North North Vietnam nuclear offload payload percent pilot pounds probe probe-and-drogue range extension receptacle rendezvous Rockwell Field route SAC's Saudi Arabia Schilling single-engine Sir Alan Cobham Southeast Asia speed takeoff weight tankers targets took transatlantic turbojets turboprop U.S. Air Force U.S. Army U.S. Army Air Vietnam Washington Weapons Board wing tanks Wright-Patterson AFB