[KG64_Cnopicilin]

Ooh if someone makes GROUND refueling, that would be great and so off-topic sorry for that...

[Flakiten]

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[Guest]

Aerial refueling was tested by the Germans on the Ju 390. One of the best WWII-era planes for aerial-refueling would probably be the KB-29. It looks like you already have that well under way. I'm impressed by that video. Dude, you need to finish it up so it's the KB-29.

[Charrua]

Que bueno Flak , se me ocurren un par de misiones , jejej.

Que he leido durante a

[Commander Shao]

I'm allowed to say that already in the korean war some B-29 were built to KB-29 Tankers???

[Charrua]

Fuente :http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aerial_refueling

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/c ... C_1923.jpg
Capt. Lowell H. Smith and Lt. John P. Richter receiving the first mid-air refueling on June 27, 1923, from a plane flown by 1st Lt. Virgil Hine and 1st Lt. Frank W. Seifert.


Some of the earliest experiments in aerial refueling took place in the 1920s, when it was as simple as two slow-flying aircraft flying in formation, with a hose run down from a hand-held fuel tank on one aircraft and placed into the usual fuel filler of the other. The first mid-air refueling between two planes occurred on June 27, 1923, between two Airco DH-4B biplanes of the United States Army Air Service. An endurance record was set by three DH-4Bs (a receiver and two tankers) on August 27-28, 1923, in which the receiver airplane remained aloft for more than 37 hours using nine mid-air refuelings to transfer 687 gallons of aviation gasoline and 38 gallons of engine oil. The same crews demonstrated the utility of the technique on October 25, 1923, when a DH-4 flew from Sumas, Washington, on the Canadian border to Tijuana, Mexico, landing in San Diego, using mid-air refuelings at Eugene, Oregon, and Sacramento, California.

In 1929, a group of U. S. Army Air Corps fliers, led by then Major Carl Spaatz, set an endurance record of over 150 hours with the Question Mark over Los Angeles. Between June 11 and July 4, 1930, the brothers John, Kenneth, Albert, and Walter Hunter set a new record of 553 hours 40 minutes over Chicago using two Stinson SM-1 Detroiters as refueler and receiver. Aerial refueling remained a very dangerous process until 1935 when brothers Fred and Al Key demonstrated a spill-free refueling nozzle, designed by A. D. Hunter.[2] They exceeded the Hunters' record by nearly 100 hours in a Curtiss Robin monoplane [1], staying aloft for more than 27 days.[3]
A F-101A Voodoo (top right), B-66 Destroyer (top left) and F-100D Super Sabre refuel from a KB-50J tanker in the early 1960s

There were parallel experiments conducted in Europe; at Le Bourget the A

[Fryslanboy]

I like the idea of air refueling and i don't get it why people are against it.. They are making a lot of ''what if'' airplanes, and i hear no people moaning about that:?:?, So if i were you: make it, it would be a great addition to the game

[ArcticWolf]

NICE!

[Guest]

This would be great to have seeing as the F-84G and B-45C could both be refueled in the air. I also saw an interesting mod of a B-24 to refuel a B-17 during WWII, looked kinda cool.



They're early ones too, the top is a B-24D and the bottom is a B-17E. There was also a test involving a B-24 having a suspended tank for a P-38 to attach to and take.

[Mechanist]

Would be handy to my B-45C too, a great leap forward! Thanks Flakiten!

[European Snake]

Early air refueling was very complex and difficult. It required operators in both aircraft. Trailing a weighted line hooking it onto the other aircraft and then dropping another line and entangling the 2 of them. The fuel was then transfered via a long hose lowered on the lines. It may be possible to transfer fuel in IL2, but the careful maneuvering would be nearly impossible.

Flakitten, may I call you the God of IL2? Hallelujah!