[GUEST ACCESS MODE: Data is scrambled or limited to provide examples. Make requests using your API key to unlock full data. Check https://lunarcrush.ai/auth for authentication information.] #  @boomers_ass Campbell Campbell posts on X about air force, over the, up the, cairo the most. They currently have XXXXX followers and 1398 posts still getting attention that total XXXXXX engagements in the last XX hours. ### Engagements: XXXXXX [#](/creator/twitter::1572382667781406720/interactions)  - X Week XXXXXXX +995% - X Month XXXXXXX -XX% - X Months XXXXXXXXX +41% - X Year XXXXXXXXX +1,291% ### Mentions: XX [#](/creator/twitter::1572382667781406720/posts_active)  - X Week XX +231% - X Month XXX -XX% - X Months XXX +17% - X Year XXXXX +424% ### Followers: XXXXX [#](/creator/twitter::1572382667781406720/followers)  - X Week XXXXX +0.89% - X Month XXXXX +4.20% - X Months XXXXX +17% - X Year XXXXX +208% ### CreatorRank: XXXXXXX [#](/creator/twitter::1572382667781406720/influencer_rank)  ### Social Influence [#](/creator/twitter::1572382667781406720/influence) --- **Social category influence** [countries](/list/countries) [travel destinations](/list/travel-destinations) [stocks](/list/stocks) #4864 [gaming](/list/gaming) [automotive brands](/list/automotive-brands) **Social topic influence** [air force](/topic/air-force) #740, [over the](/topic/over-the) #2120, [up the](/topic/up-the) #1522, [cairo](/topic/cairo) #107, [$7846t](/topic/$7846t) #951, [french polynesia](/topic/french-polynesia), [iv](/topic/iv), [senior airman](/topic/senior-airman), [solomon islands](/topic/solomon-islands), [egypt](/topic/egypt) **Top assets mentioned** [Boeing Co (BA)](/topic/$ba) ### Top Social Posts [#](/creator/twitter::1572382667781406720/posts) --- Top posts by engagements in the last XX hours "This bird C-135 63-8473 French registration F-UKCD crashed in French Polynesia with the loss of all X crew members on July 1st 1972 during a heavyweight takeoff. Severe corrosion on the compressor fins and blockage of pressure tap ports in the Fuel Control Unit cause by exposure to salt particles coral dust and saline atmosphere without adequate maintenance. The aircraft lost power in the #3 engine during takeoff and later the #4 engine. The crew attempted to return to the airport but were unable to maintain control of the aircraft. Another C-135 was found to have similar issues adn the" [X Link](https://x.com/boomers_ass/status/1975195347522630045) [@boomers_ass](/creator/x/boomers_ass) 2025-10-06T13:44Z 4998 followers, 10.4K engagements "We can do this all day long. all week long. all month long. DVIDS Caption: U.S. Air Force Senior Airman Sage Ledet 384th Air Refueling Squadron instructor in-flight refueling specialist refuels a B-52 Stratofortress from Minot Air Force Base during an aerial refueling mission over Montana June XX 2025. In-flight refueling specialist instructors play a critical role in Fairchild AFB's mission by training and certifying new personnel in aerial refueling cargo loading and aeromedical evacuation. (U.S. Air Force video by Airman 1st Class Megan Delaine)" [X Link](https://x.com/boomers_ass/status/1978666859093242120) [@boomers_ass](/creator/x/boomers_ass) 2025-10-16T03:38Z 4998 followers, 6116 engagements "This was taken back around 1978 or so. The territory should look familiar to many. Anybody want to hazard a guess as to what these two McDonnell Douglas owned DC-10s are doing flying in this rather odd formation" [X Link](https://x.com/boomers_ass/status/1969238178713190715) [@boomers_ass](/creator/x/boomers_ass) 2025-09-20T03:12Z 4976 followers, 7779 engagements "The KC-135Y would have had a maximum takeoff weight of 424000 lbs. That over 100000 lbs heavier than an R model" [X Link](https://x.com/boomers_ass/status/1976471990002384919) [@boomers_ass](/creator/x/boomers_ass) 2025-10-10T02:16Z 4986 followers, 1009 engagements "I think I've posted this before from the COMAIR SOLOMONS War Diary (Mar-Jun 1944). I lot of experience was gained over the two years of flying in the Solomon Islands. I loved discovering these documents and learning what the VMSB-244 was doing during this timeframe" [X Link](https://x.com/boomers_ass/status/1979221113889608169) [@boomers_ass](/creator/x/boomers_ass) 2025-10-17T16:21Z 4986 followers, XX engagements "Also I wanted to add all my research about the SDB has revolved around my grandfathers USMC service with the VMSB-244. They weren't at Midway they were just being formed at that time. They missed the Cactus Air Force (which was the air component during the big battle at Guadalcanal) too. They showed up just as those operations were winding down and moving up the Solomons. By the time they got in theater many lessons had been learned not to mention operating from land is considerably different from carrier operations. Being USMC vs Navy was another big difference. Anyway. just my two cents" [X Link](https://x.com/boomers_ass/status/1979238542141460951) [@boomers_ass](/creator/x/boomers_ass) 2025-10-17T17:30Z 4977 followers, XX engagements "@RC135V Ya. I did a simliar bit at Cairo West in Egypt. It was about XXX steps to get to the bathroom and the flys were terrible" [X Link](https://x.com/boomers_ass/status/1979580295494979717) [@boomers_ass](/creator/x/boomers_ass) 2025-10-18T16:08Z 4988 followers, XX engagements "The end of an era. this was the last tanker to leave Dyess AFB when the 917th Air Refueling Squadron closed up shop and headed to McConnell AFB in June of 1994. (A1C Troy J. Selby)" [X Link](https://x.com/boomers_ass/status/1978120385393562101) [@boomers_ass](/creator/x/boomers_ass) 2025-10-14T15:27Z 4990 followers, 2933 engagements "Yes there were many cases of that during Vietnam. In some cases they 'saved' a fighter by flying into the combat zone and given them needed gas but in a few extreme cases they actually towed the fighters back to friendly territory (sometimes to land sometimes to bail out over that friendly territory.)" [X Link](https://x.com/boomers_ass/status/1979372276937031702) [@boomers_ass](/creator/x/boomers_ass) 2025-10-18T02:21Z 4991 followers, XX engagements "@meaton4443 Managed to avoid Christmas in the Middle East. I did do it once at Mildenhall on the way there though. I have a photo somewhere of the tree all decorated in Billeting" [X Link](https://x.com/boomers_ass/status/1979729367984181323) [@boomers_ass](/creator/x/boomers_ass) 2025-10-19T02:00Z 4990 followers, XX engagements "@Mach3Plus @mybuddyBuck @honortheservice Oh. and I was an Cairo West too. but it's definitely not there. Cairo was a different shade of tan 🤣" [X Link](https://x.com/boomers_ass/status/1979732089957454170) [@boomers_ass](/creator/x/boomers_ass) 2025-10-19T02:11Z 4990 followers, XX engagements "@VetSalutes Sometimes the logic is crazy. When I was in the Air Force was no different" [X Link](https://x.com/boomers_ass/status/1980038430705737886) [@boomers_ass](/creator/x/boomers_ass) 2025-10-19T22:28Z 4989 followers, X engagements "1995 Can you believe this was XX years ago Clinton was still President. @BuzzPatterson was probably carrying the football for him still. Timothy McVeigh blew up the federal building. O.J. Simpson was on trial and found not guilty. A period was still followed by two spaces And in July SRA Richard T. Kaminsky took this photo of a B-52 being refueled by a KC-135 in support of Northern Viking XX near Naval Air Station Keflavik. Hard to believe it was so long ago" [X Link](https://x.com/boomers_ass/status/1977743257472782340) [@boomers_ass](/creator/x/boomers_ass) 2025-10-13T14:28Z 4997 followers, 2543 engagements "KC-135A 55-3139 dubbed the City of Atwater being permanently retired. It was the 44th aircraft to be added to the Castle Air Museum in April 1993. (A1C Carrissa Weaver) It's amazing this jet made it to 1993. This Boeing Model Number 717-100A was part of the very first contract Boeing had with this example being the 22nd airframe built. It's first flight was on September XX 1957 and less than a month later the Air Force flew it away on October 8th 1957" [X Link](https://x.com/boomers_ass/status/1978126144340676924) [@boomers_ass](/creator/x/boomers_ass) 2025-10-14T15:49Z 4992 followers, XXX engagements "0:03 That slipway always made it so easy didn't matter if it was bumpy or if the plane was moving around. That's why we learned using the B-52 in the beginning. Precision came later with experience" [X Link](https://x.com/boomers_ass/status/1978703553695748191) [@boomers_ass](/creator/x/boomers_ass) 2025-10-16T06:04Z 4997 followers, 1013 engagements "Air refueling is a process that occurs very slowly and deliberately. It doesn't fit in well with today's XX second video pace. But when you consider the B-52 is XXX feet long and XXX feet wide it makes sense that they take their time. Sometimes it takes a while to get in sync with tanker and that's why practice is so important" [X Link](https://x.com/boomers_ass/status/1978827291309318188) [@boomers_ass](/creator/x/boomers_ass) 2025-10-16T14:16Z 4998 followers, 71.8K engagements "Looks like the pilot was working his butt off. Good thing they didn't have any turbulence" [X Link](https://x.com/boomers_ass/status/1979383478769615012) [@boomers_ass](/creator/x/boomers_ass) 2025-10-18T03:06Z 4991 followers, 1861 engagements "I'm terrible with remembering the names in Saudia. I thought this one was King Kalid but I checked with Grok and it seems to think it was called Riyadh Air Base. The Saudi's flew their KE-3's and C-130s out of there and we flew -135s and E-3s as well. It's the one that actually in middle of the city of Riyadh. It had that funky building on final" [X Link](https://x.com/boomers_ass/status/1979570947347648997) [@boomers_ass](/creator/x/boomers_ass) 2025-10-18T15:31Z 4997 followers, 2924 engagements "Around the Desert Storm timeframe the Saudis were building infrastructure like crazy. The roads were all new contruction and were generally in great shape. Large intersections were often used as gathering points in the evenings when the sun went down. You'd see hundreds of people pulled over on the side of the road hanging out. Entire families kids and everything. Sometimes the dunes would get blown onto the highway and they'd have to plow them off. kind of like snow" [X Link](https://x.com/boomers_ass/status/1979574829360570510) [@boomers_ass](/creator/x/boomers_ass) 2025-10-18T15:46Z 4998 followers, 45.1K engagements "Ready set. Go While I spend a month at Cairo West one afternoon my pilot (Aircraft Commander) had to do SOF Duty also known as Foxtrot or Supervisor of Flying and I asked him if I could come along to take some photos. There guys were on the runway just about to push up the power for takeoff. It's one of the better photos I managed to take. I'm pretty sure the tail number was 62-3537 taken around mid 1991" [X Link](https://x.com/boomers_ass/status/1979742158887244138) [@boomers_ass](/creator/x/boomers_ass) 2025-10-19T02:51Z 4998 followers, 7703 engagements "@tkmtomorixwb I dropped an F-16C and an F-16D off in Indonesia in 1989. make me wonder. first photo is the C second is the D" [X Link](https://x.com/boomers_ass/status/1979745157814898712) [@boomers_ass](/creator/x/boomers_ass) 2025-10-19T03:03Z 4996 followers, XXX engagements "A KC-135R can offload 100000 pounds of fuel to a B-52 in around XX minutes. For a B-52H that equates to another five and half hours of flying at cruise. Combat range for an unrefueled flight is around XX hours of flight so air refueling is a substantial extension. This is why the Flying Boom was created by Boeing and the USAF" [X Link](https://x.com/boomers_ass/status/1980036946820014513) [@boomers_ass](/creator/x/boomers_ass) 2025-10-19T22:22Z 4998 followers, 33.3K engagements "DVIDS Caption for the photo: A B-52 Stratofortress from Minot Air Force Base N.D. moves into a pre-contact position to receive fuel from a KC-135 Stratotanker over the Pacific Ocean during an exercise on Jan. X 2009. The B-52 is deployed to Andersen Air Force Base Guam and the 23rd Expeditionary Bomb Squadron. The bomber rotation to Andersen provides the U.S. Pacific commander a continuous presence to deter and dissuade any potential aggressor in the region. The rotation to Andersen is aimed at enhancing regional security and demonstrating U.S. commitment to the Pacific region. The KC-135 is" [X Link](https://x.com/boomers_ass/status/1980053122115387542) [@boomers_ass](/creator/x/boomers_ass) 2025-10-19T23:27Z 4998 followers, XXX engagements "@Adm_Hindsight The testing part makes sense if you don't have a full sized tanker hanging around. Still. it does look odd" [X Link](https://x.com/boomers_ass/status/1980060343922528480) [@boomers_ass](/creator/x/boomers_ass) 2025-10-19T23:55Z 4997 followers, XX engagements "I remember you posting about ATTF guys at Edwards but I don't recall seeing the tag. While I did get to do some great flights at Eielson one thing we didn't get to do was go anywhere else. We were at a slight disadvantage because while our base was upgrading to R models we took an A model to the ATTF (it was converted right after we returned home.) Farthest I got out of Alaska was Shemya. and technically that's still part of Alaska 🤣 So. wasn't me. But you're right it would be cool" [X Link](https://x.com/boomers_ass/status/1980068683490730172) [@boomers_ass](/creator/x/boomers_ass) 2025-10-20T00:28Z 4998 followers, XX engagements "So building on my previous post about the B-52 lets take a look at the C-17. While the C-17 can hold a maximum fuel load of 181000 pounds if its fully loaded with cargo (at 170900 pounds) that is reduced to only about 131000 lbs. Range is around 2400 nautical miles or XXX hours when heavyweight considerably less than the B-52s 8800-mile combat loaded range. Lets use an example. A C-17 out of Travis fully loaded with cargo could make it to Hawaii. Give it 100000 pounds of fuel when its burned enough off though and it could make it to Midway Atoll. Launch a second tanker with another 100000" [X Link](https://x.com/boomers_ass/status/1980081587963482303) [@boomers_ass](/creator/x/boomers_ass) 2025-10-20T01:20Z 4998 followers, 29.7K engagements "Video care of DVIDS. Caption: A KC-135 Stratotanker aircraft assigned to the 171st Air Refueling Wing Pennsylvania Air National Guard performs an aerial refueling mission with a C-17 Globemaster III aircraft assigned to the 911th Airlift Wing Air Force Reserve April XX 2023 near Pittsburgh Pennsylvania. The 171st and the 911th conduct routine training missions together. (U.S. Air National Guard video by Staff Sgt. Zoe M. Wockenfuss)" [X Link](https://x.com/boomers_ass/status/1980081590672691549) [@boomers_ass](/creator/x/boomers_ass) 2025-10-20T01:20Z 4998 followers, XXX engagements "@obxpilot23 I know it was from my point of view (looking down at the receiver.) I did get to try it in the pilot's seat in the KC-10 sim and I did ok but the pilots told me it wasn't the best representation of the real thing at the time. I'm sure the sims has gotten better by now" [X Link](https://x.com/boomers_ass/status/1980093142163689556) [@boomers_ass](/creator/x/boomers_ass) 2025-10-20T02:06Z 4998 followers, XXX engagements "@TheJason1983 I have heard that. But I also heard the aircraft was a bit over-built. Perfect for engine upgrades and added fuel tanks" [X Link](https://x.com/boomers_ass/status/1980113331529580812) [@boomers_ass](/creator/x/boomers_ass) 2025-10-20T03:26Z 4998 followers, XX engagements "I don't want to make light of Tori's issues with her jeep (it's terrible) but I'm hoping the explaination for this is that a bunch of software engineers got fired from Boeing's KC-46 boom program last year and they all landed jobs at Jeep. BTW. Jeep isn't the only car company that has this issue. My uncles got a Lincoln and he got in his car one day and it no longer worked due to an OTA update. Sorry Tori I couldn't resist I hope they get it all fixed up for you" [X Link](https://x.com/boomers_ass/status/1980280968654234074) [@boomers_ass](/creator/x/boomers_ass) 2025-10-20T14:32Z 4998 followers, 3249 engagements "Those developers who released teh software should be fired. Then the developers who created the failure mode should be fired. Brakes locking up That's so dangerous. I'm sure once the lawyers get involved Jeeps gonna pay through the nose. Like I said I hope it all works out for you" [X Link](https://x.com/boomers_ass/status/1980282950722670901) [@boomers_ass](/creator/x/boomers_ass) 2025-10-20T14:40Z 4998 followers, XXX engagements
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@boomers_ass Campbell
Campbell posts on X about air force, over the, up the, cairo the most. They currently have XXXXX followers and 1398 posts still getting attention that total XXXXXX engagements in the last XX hours.
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- X Months XXXXXXXXX +41%
- X Year XXXXXXXXX +1,291%
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- X Week XX +231%
- X Month XXX -XX%
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- X Year XXXXX +424%
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Social category influence countries travel destinations stocks #4864 gaming automotive brands
Social topic influence air force #740, over the #2120, up the #1522, cairo #107, $7846t #951, french polynesia, iv, senior airman, solomon islands, egypt
Top assets mentioned Boeing Co (BA)
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Top posts by engagements in the last XX hours
"This bird C-135 63-8473 French registration F-UKCD crashed in French Polynesia with the loss of all X crew members on July 1st 1972 during a heavyweight takeoff. Severe corrosion on the compressor fins and blockage of pressure tap ports in the Fuel Control Unit cause by exposure to salt particles coral dust and saline atmosphere without adequate maintenance. The aircraft lost power in the #3 engine during takeoff and later the #4 engine. The crew attempted to return to the airport but were unable to maintain control of the aircraft. Another C-135 was found to have similar issues adn the"
X Link @boomers_ass 2025-10-06T13:44Z 4998 followers, 10.4K engagements
"We can do this all day long. all week long. all month long. DVIDS Caption: U.S. Air Force Senior Airman Sage Ledet 384th Air Refueling Squadron instructor in-flight refueling specialist refuels a B-52 Stratofortress from Minot Air Force Base during an aerial refueling mission over Montana June XX 2025. In-flight refueling specialist instructors play a critical role in Fairchild AFB's mission by training and certifying new personnel in aerial refueling cargo loading and aeromedical evacuation. (U.S. Air Force video by Airman 1st Class Megan Delaine)"
X Link @boomers_ass 2025-10-16T03:38Z 4998 followers, 6116 engagements
"This was taken back around 1978 or so. The territory should look familiar to many. Anybody want to hazard a guess as to what these two McDonnell Douglas owned DC-10s are doing flying in this rather odd formation"
X Link @boomers_ass 2025-09-20T03:12Z 4976 followers, 7779 engagements
"The KC-135Y would have had a maximum takeoff weight of 424000 lbs. That over 100000 lbs heavier than an R model"
X Link @boomers_ass 2025-10-10T02:16Z 4986 followers, 1009 engagements
"I think I've posted this before from the COMAIR SOLOMONS War Diary (Mar-Jun 1944). I lot of experience was gained over the two years of flying in the Solomon Islands. I loved discovering these documents and learning what the VMSB-244 was doing during this timeframe"
X Link @boomers_ass 2025-10-17T16:21Z 4986 followers, XX engagements
"Also I wanted to add all my research about the SDB has revolved around my grandfathers USMC service with the VMSB-244. They weren't at Midway they were just being formed at that time. They missed the Cactus Air Force (which was the air component during the big battle at Guadalcanal) too. They showed up just as those operations were winding down and moving up the Solomons. By the time they got in theater many lessons had been learned not to mention operating from land is considerably different from carrier operations. Being USMC vs Navy was another big difference. Anyway. just my two cents"
X Link @boomers_ass 2025-10-17T17:30Z 4977 followers, XX engagements
"@RC135V Ya. I did a simliar bit at Cairo West in Egypt. It was about XXX steps to get to the bathroom and the flys were terrible"
X Link @boomers_ass 2025-10-18T16:08Z 4988 followers, XX engagements
"The end of an era. this was the last tanker to leave Dyess AFB when the 917th Air Refueling Squadron closed up shop and headed to McConnell AFB in June of 1994. (A1C Troy J. Selby)"
X Link @boomers_ass 2025-10-14T15:27Z 4990 followers, 2933 engagements
"Yes there were many cases of that during Vietnam. In some cases they 'saved' a fighter by flying into the combat zone and given them needed gas but in a few extreme cases they actually towed the fighters back to friendly territory (sometimes to land sometimes to bail out over that friendly territory.)"
X Link @boomers_ass 2025-10-18T02:21Z 4991 followers, XX engagements
"@meaton4443 Managed to avoid Christmas in the Middle East. I did do it once at Mildenhall on the way there though. I have a photo somewhere of the tree all decorated in Billeting"
X Link @boomers_ass 2025-10-19T02:00Z 4990 followers, XX engagements
"@Mach3Plus @mybuddyBuck @honortheservice Oh. and I was an Cairo West too. but it's definitely not there. Cairo was a different shade of tan 🤣"
X Link @boomers_ass 2025-10-19T02:11Z 4990 followers, XX engagements
"@VetSalutes Sometimes the logic is crazy. When I was in the Air Force was no different"
X Link @boomers_ass 2025-10-19T22:28Z 4989 followers, X engagements
"1995 Can you believe this was XX years ago Clinton was still President. @BuzzPatterson was probably carrying the football for him still. Timothy McVeigh blew up the federal building. O.J. Simpson was on trial and found not guilty. A period was still followed by two spaces And in July SRA Richard T. Kaminsky took this photo of a B-52 being refueled by a KC-135 in support of Northern Viking XX near Naval Air Station Keflavik. Hard to believe it was so long ago"
X Link @boomers_ass 2025-10-13T14:28Z 4997 followers, 2543 engagements
"KC-135A 55-3139 dubbed the City of Atwater being permanently retired. It was the 44th aircraft to be added to the Castle Air Museum in April 1993. (A1C Carrissa Weaver) It's amazing this jet made it to 1993. This Boeing Model Number 717-100A was part of the very first contract Boeing had with this example being the 22nd airframe built. It's first flight was on September XX 1957 and less than a month later the Air Force flew it away on October 8th 1957"
X Link @boomers_ass 2025-10-14T15:49Z 4992 followers, XXX engagements
"0:03 That slipway always made it so easy didn't matter if it was bumpy or if the plane was moving around. That's why we learned using the B-52 in the beginning. Precision came later with experience"
X Link @boomers_ass 2025-10-16T06:04Z 4997 followers, 1013 engagements
"Air refueling is a process that occurs very slowly and deliberately. It doesn't fit in well with today's XX second video pace. But when you consider the B-52 is XXX feet long and XXX feet wide it makes sense that they take their time. Sometimes it takes a while to get in sync with tanker and that's why practice is so important"
X Link @boomers_ass 2025-10-16T14:16Z 4998 followers, 71.8K engagements
"Looks like the pilot was working his butt off. Good thing they didn't have any turbulence"
X Link @boomers_ass 2025-10-18T03:06Z 4991 followers, 1861 engagements
"I'm terrible with remembering the names in Saudia. I thought this one was King Kalid but I checked with Grok and it seems to think it was called Riyadh Air Base. The Saudi's flew their KE-3's and C-130s out of there and we flew -135s and E-3s as well. It's the one that actually in middle of the city of Riyadh. It had that funky building on final"
X Link @boomers_ass 2025-10-18T15:31Z 4997 followers, 2924 engagements
"Around the Desert Storm timeframe the Saudis were building infrastructure like crazy. The roads were all new contruction and were generally in great shape. Large intersections were often used as gathering points in the evenings when the sun went down. You'd see hundreds of people pulled over on the side of the road hanging out. Entire families kids and everything. Sometimes the dunes would get blown onto the highway and they'd have to plow them off. kind of like snow"
X Link @boomers_ass 2025-10-18T15:46Z 4998 followers, 45.1K engagements
"Ready set. Go While I spend a month at Cairo West one afternoon my pilot (Aircraft Commander) had to do SOF Duty also known as Foxtrot or Supervisor of Flying and I asked him if I could come along to take some photos. There guys were on the runway just about to push up the power for takeoff. It's one of the better photos I managed to take. I'm pretty sure the tail number was 62-3537 taken around mid 1991"
X Link @boomers_ass 2025-10-19T02:51Z 4998 followers, 7703 engagements
"@tkmtomorixwb I dropped an F-16C and an F-16D off in Indonesia in 1989. make me wonder. first photo is the C second is the D"
X Link @boomers_ass 2025-10-19T03:03Z 4996 followers, XXX engagements
"A KC-135R can offload 100000 pounds of fuel to a B-52 in around XX minutes. For a B-52H that equates to another five and half hours of flying at cruise. Combat range for an unrefueled flight is around XX hours of flight so air refueling is a substantial extension. This is why the Flying Boom was created by Boeing and the USAF"
X Link @boomers_ass 2025-10-19T22:22Z 4998 followers, 33.3K engagements
"DVIDS Caption for the photo: A B-52 Stratofortress from Minot Air Force Base N.D. moves into a pre-contact position to receive fuel from a KC-135 Stratotanker over the Pacific Ocean during an exercise on Jan. X 2009. The B-52 is deployed to Andersen Air Force Base Guam and the 23rd Expeditionary Bomb Squadron. The bomber rotation to Andersen provides the U.S. Pacific commander a continuous presence to deter and dissuade any potential aggressor in the region. The rotation to Andersen is aimed at enhancing regional security and demonstrating U.S. commitment to the Pacific region. The KC-135 is"
X Link @boomers_ass 2025-10-19T23:27Z 4998 followers, XXX engagements
"@Adm_Hindsight The testing part makes sense if you don't have a full sized tanker hanging around. Still. it does look odd"
X Link @boomers_ass 2025-10-19T23:55Z 4997 followers, XX engagements
"I remember you posting about ATTF guys at Edwards but I don't recall seeing the tag. While I did get to do some great flights at Eielson one thing we didn't get to do was go anywhere else. We were at a slight disadvantage because while our base was upgrading to R models we took an A model to the ATTF (it was converted right after we returned home.) Farthest I got out of Alaska was Shemya. and technically that's still part of Alaska 🤣 So. wasn't me. But you're right it would be cool"
X Link @boomers_ass 2025-10-20T00:28Z 4998 followers, XX engagements
"So building on my previous post about the B-52 lets take a look at the C-17. While the C-17 can hold a maximum fuel load of 181000 pounds if its fully loaded with cargo (at 170900 pounds) that is reduced to only about 131000 lbs. Range is around 2400 nautical miles or XXX hours when heavyweight considerably less than the B-52s 8800-mile combat loaded range. Lets use an example. A C-17 out of Travis fully loaded with cargo could make it to Hawaii. Give it 100000 pounds of fuel when its burned enough off though and it could make it to Midway Atoll. Launch a second tanker with another 100000"
X Link @boomers_ass 2025-10-20T01:20Z 4998 followers, 29.7K engagements
"Video care of DVIDS. Caption: A KC-135 Stratotanker aircraft assigned to the 171st Air Refueling Wing Pennsylvania Air National Guard performs an aerial refueling mission with a C-17 Globemaster III aircraft assigned to the 911th Airlift Wing Air Force Reserve April XX 2023 near Pittsburgh Pennsylvania. The 171st and the 911th conduct routine training missions together. (U.S. Air National Guard video by Staff Sgt. Zoe M. Wockenfuss)"
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"@obxpilot23 I know it was from my point of view (looking down at the receiver.) I did get to try it in the pilot's seat in the KC-10 sim and I did ok but the pilots told me it wasn't the best representation of the real thing at the time. I'm sure the sims has gotten better by now"
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"@TheJason1983 I have heard that. But I also heard the aircraft was a bit over-built. Perfect for engine upgrades and added fuel tanks"
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"I don't want to make light of Tori's issues with her jeep (it's terrible) but I'm hoping the explaination for this is that a bunch of software engineers got fired from Boeing's KC-46 boom program last year and they all landed jobs at Jeep. BTW. Jeep isn't the only car company that has this issue. My uncles got a Lincoln and he got in his car one day and it no longer worked due to an OTA update. Sorry Tori I couldn't resist I hope they get it all fixed up for you"
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"Those developers who released teh software should be fired. Then the developers who created the failure mode should be fired. Brakes locking up That's so dangerous. I'm sure once the lawyers get involved Jeeps gonna pay through the nose. Like I said I hope it all works out for you"
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