Coincidence, great way to dispel any argument. You can see the chem/contrail get lower and wider over the hour or so it takes to disperse. Then you can watch it start to spread outwards across the formerly blue sky while no other clouds are moving in. I never saw an ordinary contrail behave like that in all my life. I mean please, c'mon.
@Martin958 Well after seeing that, you can say you have. Those contrails did not cause the sky to become overcast, and it certainly wasn't caused by any chemicals being evacuated from any aircraft. Clouds form when vapor condenses in the atmosphere. That's all there is to it. And yes, coincidence is what happens with 100% of weather. While their HAVE been experiments with cloud seeding in order to trigger rainfall over farmland and arid regions, that's as far as it's gone.
@Spook50 So putting this all into context, what did I photograph happening with 4 jet engined aircraft spraying off the trailing edge? A fuel dump directly behind the exhausts???
All I want to know is when they are spraying these chemicals do any of them make double rainbows? Because if they are not then the government is really waisting our money because everyone knows that chemtrails are only effective when you look at them. A double rainbow chemtrail. Now there's something to look at......
@Martin958 Martin should hold his breath if he's so worried. CONTRAILS are a normal effect caused by the rapid cooling of hot exhaust gasses and particulates left over from combustion. The air often gets very cold above 30k feet, and sometimes the frozen condensate does not heat up fast enough to dissipate (return to it's gasseous state) in a couple of seconds. Sometimes it does and the contrails are short. Sometimes they are long and it may take several minutes.
@RocketmanS2K I'm not talking about several minutes!! If you even bother to check out the sky on some days, not all, but some....you will see grid patterns hanging in the sky for over an hour. They then spread out into a thin haze and the whole sky becomes clouded over where before it was empty blue.
Those seemingly innocuous trails are actually vaporized fluoride which will prevent tooth decay, but at the same time it will make you essentially a Zombie. For true!
@Martin958 LOL this is hilarious. For a while I thought you had to be joking. Take it from someone who works on these aircraft for a living: "chemtrails" are NOTHING but a crackpot conspiracy theory. The only chemicals being dumped into the air are various types of fuels (depending on which aircraft it is) dumping fuel for whatever reason, be it an in-flight emergency or ensuring they don't land with too high of a gross weight (as that would run the risk of damaging the landing gear)
@Spook50 Well as a fellow aircraft mechanic I have to disagree with you. Also take it from someone who works on them for a living. Contrails don't hang around in the air for hours and drop to the ground. You should know that!! While the second vid is possible as a fuel dump, I find it curious the pilots following it had other ideas.
@Martin958 The trails you see coming from in-flight aircraft are trails of water vapor that form behind the engines when conditions are right. Do yourself a favor and educate yourself on meteorology (understanding weather) and basic physics.
@Spook50 How about you take a meteorology refresher? Ask yourself one thing, do you remember all these tic-tac-toe grids when you were a kid looking up? Why so different now? Also I have photographed sprayers with belly tanks and trailing edge wing nozzles. Try that yourself before you jump to wrong conclusions and see what you can find.
@Martin958 1) Yes I did. I was born in '80 and saw them on a regular basis growing up. Always on high altitude aircraft. More now because air traffic has dramatically increased in the years since.
2) Those sprayers are on cropdusters and firefighting aircraft. All low-altitude. No high-altitude aircraft would have sprayers, and even if your crackpot theories were true it wouldn't be done with high altitude aircraft anyway, because any agents dispensed from that high would disperse...
@Spook50 I'm afraid the only crackpots are the brainwashed sheeple who can't think for themselves. The aircraft I photographed recently was a high altitude aircraft with 4 jet engines. So you proved me right when you said, "No high-altitude aircraft would have sprayers". Well the one I photographed for myself does! So thanks again for the confirmation. Incidently with my civilian aircraft mechanic background, all fuel dumps are done from the wing tips, not the trailing edge.
@Martin958 So where's this picture you keep hyping? The only thing that's been proven here is that you have watched entirely too many episodes of the X-Files. Do yourself a favor and stop buying into this conspiracy theory nonsense. Mechanical and meteorological factors aside (which all render your theories ineffective), you give our government WAY too much credit in thinking they could successfully brainwash anybody.
@Spook50 I can send you my photo taken over Luxembourg airport about a month ago. Send a PM containing your email address and I will forward it to you. I will try and take more photos when I get clear days when chemtrailing is actually happening. You don't see it every day which adds more potency to the argument. Sometimes all you see is just ordinary contrails that evaporate in less than a minute. Do YOURSELF a favour and look at the PDF before judging so easily.
@Martin958 I read the PDF, and all it is is a case study of possible solutions to recording and presenting wide field-of-view 3D images. The fact that this was a study done by the Army has absolutely nothing to do with aviation. I can tell you beyond a shadow of a doubt, chemtrailing is NOT happening. Even if any government were to attempt something in that manner, the method of delivery is not feasible at all. Contrails stay for long periods of time for the same reasons clouds do.
@Spook50 The PDF contains details of producing holographic displays using crystals of strontium barium niobate. A substance found during investigations in chemtrailing. The Army is responsible for the weapon, the airforce covertly sprays the chemical. You don't have the authority to know what's going on. You also don't understand chemistry. Contrails do not sit around for hours on end falling to the earth whilst spreading out into thin wispy clouds. They never used to, and they never will.
@Martin958 Actually yes, just like clouds, high altitude contrails CAN remain for several hours, They can also descend as low as atmospheric conditions will allow clouds/vapor to exist (familiar with fog?), AND spread out into thinner clouds. Because they essentially ARE clouds, with the addition of byproducts of combustion, which can remain visible for several hours as those byproducts can't just evaporate away when conditions prevent clouds from remaining. Those have to disperse.
@Spook50 That doesn't explain the existance of regular contrails and the bigger ones falling to earth in the same patch of sky. Also regular contrails cannot turn a blue sky into a misty haze of clouds. Then we get morons saying my comments sound funny when people believe some aircraft condensation can behave like this??
@Martin958 Weather turning hazy when contrails are present? Yeah, that's called coincidence. There's a ton of that in worldwide weather patterns. It happens, and without any chemicals to cause it. And yes, contrails can behave like that. Being left at different altitudes (even by a few hundred feet) and by different types of engines (more combustion byproducts = heavier) can cause some to stay aloft and present for hours, while others descend quite a bit before dispersing.
@Spook50 Dispersal of the agents is key. I can't type in the web address you google 3D Holographic Display Using Strontium Barium Niobate and see the PDF released military document on how the dispersal agent is utilised.
My Dad was a pilot for the KC 135 and remained his favorite plane through out his life. What a great tribute to this amazing plane you gave and the memories for many men and women around the country that love it. Thank you for sharing...I wish he could have watched this, they still do touch and go's here in Utah all of the time. So while my Dad just passed, I still get to see him in a way everytime on flies over. Thank you again for sharing a beautiful tribute. God Bless
My dad was in charge of a maintenance squadron of these at Westover, and in fact was a part of the team developing the boom for refueling. Kept 90% of his airplanes in the air during the Cuban Missile Crisis and won the AF commendation medal. General Saunders was a friend of ours and he even golfed with Lemay once.
Is the lame Jurassic Park music supposed to remind us that the aircraft rule the same way the dinosaurs did?? LMAO cheesy is not the same as funny. Peace!!
In the summer of 1997 I was trying to get back to Guam with my family. We flew from Travis AFB to McConnell and manifested on a training flight swinging up through Seattle before heading to Anderson AFB via Hickam.
My then wife said to the LoadMaster "he's the only man I know who's so protective of his family he arranges for fighter escort across the ocean".
The LM thought this fairly humorous and arranged for my son to talk to the fighter jocks we were refueling over the Pacific.
I was at Minot and Bangor with the AF/MeANG. #59-1493. She was a great ship. Those early mornings, just at dawn doing a prefilight, were some of the best times I ever had....
4258 BW minot 1962-65 sac Tanker chief I think a lot of us old guys know alot of the truth. Wen I was at Castle AFB my plane was a 55 model te second one in the T.O.
Definetley the most unrated and unappreciated planes that the airforce offers. I have always found the KC 135 to be an amazing plane. And my brother now pilots one. He loves it to death. His line is "Don't worry brother we will never run out of gas" LOL the first time i heard that i died laughing.
Great Job!! I crewed 55-3130 at Carswell AFB (Now on display at the March AFB Museum) And 63-8014 at March AFB. My son is now in Tech School at Sheppard and is going to be the next generation of KC-135 Crew Chiefs in my family! Thanks for the great tribute!!!
Actually, that deal was axed when people found serious flaws in the selection process. Basically the acquisitions team kept "revemping" what they wanted to favor the Airbus jet; when the Boeing jet, while smaller, was a far superior piece of equipment.
@Spook50 i dont get it, why replace a us made plane for an european? boeing is a great company and has been supporting the us army with planes. i dont get also why replace the kc-135, they are the best at what they do.
Its a very old airframe. You wana keep the F-4's as well? You cant just keep updating something at a certain point you have to let go. They have served their country well.
@TuAFFalcon thats true but at least they could have asked boeing for a newer design that can refuel more planes at the same time, instead of braking a contract with a US company that has been supporting you for quite some long time.
Isnt the competition still ongoing? KC-X is still up for grabs. I think Boeing won but the decision was overturned. Boeing and Northrop Grumman/EADS are the main contenders. Although i think Northrop pulled out leaving EADS to challenge Boeing. KC-767 (Boeing) and KC-30 (EADS). Its a bit confusing. Billions and billions are at stake for whoever wins the comp. Plus the winner will probarly get foreign buyers as well once the USAF has chosen its tanker.
@harold562 The USAF wouldn't be breaking a contract, they're on no contractual obligation to continue running them. It was purely a purchase, they could have instantly set them on fire or purposely crashed them all if they wanted! And there is a new Boeing design that's been developed, several actually, based on the 737, 767, and 777. It's being evaluated with some fairness, Boeing once got the contract, but it emerged through bribery involving the CEO himself...
@harold562 The reason why they want to replace the KC-135 is the maintence costs have been soaring, the aircraft have been operational well beyond what they were expected to, many parts now have to be custom made, the aircraft through and throughout is obsolete. It'd actually be cheaper to buy in new airframes than to keep these going another ten years and then being forced to as they max their framelives out.(They can tear apart in midair if ran beyond the red line, simply put metal fatigue)
Very Nice Video to one of the most unrated aircraft ever to serve the fleet. I was a crew chief on TN#59-1493 with 101st ARW. A tough lady who always got us home safe. To all who them, past and present, God Speed to all!Lets kick the tires and light the fires!
Way to go, Sra. Moeller. I flew the -135 for 17 of my 21 years in the USAF. It is truly a testament to the enginuity and endurance of American aviation. Your tribute does it justice!
518 was stationed at Dyess in Abilene Tx. It is currently stationed in Peru, in in the AFRC at the old Grissom AFB.
Actually the best 135 is 56-3635 It had 103 consecutive on-times before she lost water and went late. I love the water wagons, R's were fun but they didn't have the drama of will all engines hit water. :D
No joke. I saw the last A-model water takeoff in history (last 135A Vomit Comet on its last mission from Ellingotn Field, TX) and when they hit the water it blew my mind (and eardrums). Definitely a hell of a site.
I was a Boomer on the KC-135 and to see your tribute just broght tears to my eyes. I showed my Wife and could not even talk seeing it again, Thank you so much for puting the 135 Tribute together.
The Boeing KC-135 Stratotanker is no doubt the greatest aircraft in the world's history of Air Power!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! For some reason, "135" must be my lucky number.. I see it a lot. Also ever since I was little I always liked the "Air Force Tankers" Even when I liked trucks way more than airplanes I've always had a love for the Tankers!!! Beautiful planes!
I've been crew chiefing on 135's for 26 years now from the A models to E models and finally the R's. Currently 62-3521 at Grissom A.R.B. You can't find a better airframe anywhere! I'll even bet that these new computer designed planes will never last this long. They just don't build them like this any more. Great Tribute!
Cool plane. We're going to miss them, especially since now France is going to be building our new tankers and if we want spares and replacements we're going to have to care about what they think of our foreign policy decisions now. Sad but true.
You speak the truth. The bureaucrats heading the KC-X competition stiffed Boeing by changing the specs they wanted and still urged Boeing to submit the 767, knowing that it wouldn't meet the specs. Had Boeing known what was going on behind closed doors, they would've designed and submitted a KC-777, which would've far exceeded the specs and still met the bid price.
Damn good video!!! I've flown on the "E" "R" and "T" models. Your video makes me realize more and more that I'm going to miss is alot when I go over to the KC-10
That is correct. I love working T models, just for the fact that the dual SPRs mean we can double pump and turn 'em quicker! Watch out for that No. 2 valve though...
Brings back lots of memories for me too. I crewed the old A models from 70-74 at Wurtsmith AFB MI. DAMN that was (is) a good airplane ! My entire tech school class from Chanute (8 guys) all got stationed at Wurtsmith together and I was the only one that got assigned to Tankers and initially I was pissed. LITTLE DID I KNOW WHAT A BLESSING THAT WAS ! Lots of TDY's (((SIGH))) - God I miss the Air Force !
Brings back lots of memories. I crewed at McConnell AFB for 9 yrs. We were the first to get the R model. My aircraft was the third R model package, 0293 was the first, It could receive and offload(ARR)
wholly crap, wholly crapola frikin wow crap, and wholly shit even with a hint of jesus christ wow! I did this stuff, that was my jet in the AF. OUTFUKINSTANDING! thank you for making my feel like I might have just made a modecum of a difference instead of just being another number in the military.
Great tribute, what is the song? I worked environmental systems on all c-135 variants and B-52G/H for 13 years, the 135 is the best plane ever built, and that is because it is a Boeing!! Thanks for the tribute, Charles
It's the theme from Jurassic Park. I'm now a SSgt and reenlisted for another four years of maintaining these bad boys. At this point I plan on working them until they're out of service.
Well lets hope the out of service thing doesn't happen for many years. I think it is the best airplane ever built, but since I started working on them in 1979, guess it is my favorite. What system do you work on, or are you a crew chief, or boomer? Are you on myspace? I am, have a page dedicated to the 135 series there. Do you mind if I use your video there on my page? Take care, Charles
Coincidence, great way to dispel any argument. You can see the chem/contrail get lower and wider over the hour or so it takes to disperse. Then you can watch it start to spread outwards across the formerly blue sky while no other clouds are moving in. I never saw an ordinary contrail behave like that in all my life. I mean please, c'mon.
Martin958 2 days ago
@Martin958 Well after seeing that, you can say you have. Those contrails did not cause the sky to become overcast, and it certainly wasn't caused by any chemicals being evacuated from any aircraft. Clouds form when vapor condenses in the atmosphere. That's all there is to it. And yes, coincidence is what happens with 100% of weather. While their HAVE been experiments with cloud seeding in order to trigger rainfall over farmland and arid regions, that's as far as it's gone.
Spook50 2 days ago
@Spook50 So putting this all into context, what did I photograph happening with 4 jet engined aircraft spraying off the trailing edge? A fuel dump directly behind the exhausts???
Martin958 2 days ago
@Martin958 Contrail formation. Nothing more.
Spook50 1 day ago
waiting for martin's next comment. too funny
CrazyMalone 3 days ago
@CrazyMalone Your username says it all.
Martin958 2 days ago
All I want to know is when they are spraying these chemicals do any of them make double rainbows? Because if they are not then the government is really waisting our money because everyone knows that chemtrails are only effective when you look at them. A double rainbow chemtrail. Now there's something to look at......
trollhole1 3 days ago
@trollhole1 Sorry, they won't do that for you.
Martin958 2 days ago
@Martin958 Martin should hold his breath if he's so worried. CONTRAILS are a normal effect caused by the rapid cooling of hot exhaust gasses and particulates left over from combustion. The air often gets very cold above 30k feet, and sometimes the frozen condensate does not heat up fast enough to dissipate (return to it's gasseous state) in a couple of seconds. Sometimes it does and the contrails are short. Sometimes they are long and it may take several minutes.
RocketmanS2K 4 days ago
@RocketmanS2K I'm not talking about several minutes!! If you even bother to check out the sky on some days, not all, but some....you will see grid patterns hanging in the sky for over an hour. They then spread out into a thin haze and the whole sky becomes clouded over where before it was empty blue.
Martin958 3 days ago
Those seemingly innocuous trails are actually vaporized fluoride which will prevent tooth decay, but at the same time it will make you essentially a Zombie. For true!
JackSpaniel 4 days ago
Used often in chemtrailing.
Martin958 1 week ago
@Martin958 Ummmmmm, no
Spook50 5 days ago
@Spook50 Yes it is.
Martin958 4 days ago
@Martin958 Oh you think it is do you? Care to share your crackpot conspiracy theory?
Spook50 4 days ago
@Spook50 I know it is: Take a look at this without using your usual crackpot conspiracy eyeballs: watch?v=G9cQfcKR0EM&feature=related
Also, not a KC-135 but proof of spraying: watch?v=syvQkviPdDE
Have you actually looked up lately???
Martin958 4 days ago
@Martin958 LOL this is hilarious. For a while I thought you had to be joking. Take it from someone who works on these aircraft for a living: "chemtrails" are NOTHING but a crackpot conspiracy theory. The only chemicals being dumped into the air are various types of fuels (depending on which aircraft it is) dumping fuel for whatever reason, be it an in-flight emergency or ensuring they don't land with too high of a gross weight (as that would run the risk of damaging the landing gear)
Spook50 4 days ago
@Spook50 Well as a fellow aircraft mechanic I have to disagree with you. Also take it from someone who works on them for a living. Contrails don't hang around in the air for hours and drop to the ground. You should know that!! While the second vid is possible as a fuel dump, I find it curious the pilots following it had other ideas.
Martin958 4 days ago
@Martin958 The trails you see coming from in-flight aircraft are trails of water vapor that form behind the engines when conditions are right. Do yourself a favor and educate yourself on meteorology (understanding weather) and basic physics.
Spook50 4 days ago
@Spook50 How about you take a meteorology refresher? Ask yourself one thing, do you remember all these tic-tac-toe grids when you were a kid looking up? Why so different now? Also I have photographed sprayers with belly tanks and trailing edge wing nozzles. Try that yourself before you jump to wrong conclusions and see what you can find.
Martin958 4 days ago
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Martin958 4 days ago
@Martin958 1) Yes I did. I was born in '80 and saw them on a regular basis growing up. Always on high altitude aircraft. More now because air traffic has dramatically increased in the years since.
2) Those sprayers are on cropdusters and firefighting aircraft. All low-altitude. No high-altitude aircraft would have sprayers, and even if your crackpot theories were true it wouldn't be done with high altitude aircraft anyway, because any agents dispensed from that high would disperse...
Spook50 4 days ago
@Spook50 I'm afraid the only crackpots are the brainwashed sheeple who can't think for themselves. The aircraft I photographed recently was a high altitude aircraft with 4 jet engines. So you proved me right when you said, "No high-altitude aircraft would have sprayers". Well the one I photographed for myself does! So thanks again for the confirmation. Incidently with my civilian aircraft mechanic background, all fuel dumps are done from the wing tips, not the trailing edge.
Martin958 3 days ago
@Martin958 So where's this picture you keep hyping? The only thing that's been proven here is that you have watched entirely too many episodes of the X-Files. Do yourself a favor and stop buying into this conspiracy theory nonsense. Mechanical and meteorological factors aside (which all render your theories ineffective), you give our government WAY too much credit in thinking they could successfully brainwash anybody.
Spook50 3 days ago
@Spook50 I can send you my photo taken over Luxembourg airport about a month ago. Send a PM containing your email address and I will forward it to you. I will try and take more photos when I get clear days when chemtrailing is actually happening. You don't see it every day which adds more potency to the argument. Sometimes all you see is just ordinary contrails that evaporate in less than a minute. Do YOURSELF a favour and look at the PDF before judging so easily.
Martin958 3 days ago
@Martin958 I read the PDF, and all it is is a case study of possible solutions to recording and presenting wide field-of-view 3D images. The fact that this was a study done by the Army has absolutely nothing to do with aviation. I can tell you beyond a shadow of a doubt, chemtrailing is NOT happening. Even if any government were to attempt something in that manner, the method of delivery is not feasible at all. Contrails stay for long periods of time for the same reasons clouds do.
Spook50 3 days ago
@Spook50 The PDF contains details of producing holographic displays using crystals of strontium barium niobate. A substance found during investigations in chemtrailing. The Army is responsible for the weapon, the airforce covertly sprays the chemical. You don't have the authority to know what's going on. You also don't understand chemistry. Contrails do not sit around for hours on end falling to the earth whilst spreading out into thin wispy clouds. They never used to, and they never will.
Martin958 3 days ago
@Martin958 Actually yes, just like clouds, high altitude contrails CAN remain for several hours, They can also descend as low as atmospheric conditions will allow clouds/vapor to exist (familiar with fog?), AND spread out into thinner clouds. Because they essentially ARE clouds, with the addition of byproducts of combustion, which can remain visible for several hours as those byproducts can't just evaporate away when conditions prevent clouds from remaining. Those have to disperse.
Spook50 3 days ago
@Spook50 That doesn't explain the existance of regular contrails and the bigger ones falling to earth in the same patch of sky. Also regular contrails cannot turn a blue sky into a misty haze of clouds. Then we get morons saying my comments sound funny when people believe some aircraft condensation can behave like this??
Martin958 2 days ago
@Martin958 Weather turning hazy when contrails are present? Yeah, that's called coincidence. There's a ton of that in worldwide weather patterns. It happens, and without any chemicals to cause it. And yes, contrails can behave like that. Being left at different altitudes (even by a few hundred feet) and by different types of engines (more combustion byproducts = heavier) can cause some to stay aloft and present for hours, while others descend quite a bit before dispersing.
Spook50 2 days ago
@Spook50 Dispersal of the agents is key. I can't type in the web address you google 3D Holographic Display Using Strontium Barium Niobate and see the PDF released military document on how the dispersal agent is utilised.
Martin958 3 days ago
@Martin958 ...completely before coming anywhere near the ground, and be rendered completely ineffective.
3) Your external tanks? Also, cropdusters and fire-fighting aircraft for low altitudes, and auxiliary fuel tanks for high altitude aircraft.
Spook50 4 days ago
Beast.
TuAFFalcon 2 months ago in playlist Favorite videos
Jurassic Park theme music?
rcairforceone 7 months ago
THANK YOU Tinker Air Force Base!!
biggkib11 8 months ago
Jurassic Park?
raptorman120 9 months ago
i like the jurassic park song in it
skizzlelizzle21 1 year ago
My Dad was a pilot for the KC 135 and remained his favorite plane through out his life. What a great tribute to this amazing plane you gave and the memories for many men and women around the country that love it. Thank you for sharing...I wish he could have watched this, they still do touch and go's here in Utah all of the time. So while my Dad just passed, I still get to see him in a way everytime on flies over. Thank you again for sharing a beautiful tribute. God Bless
nlbustos0103 1 year ago
63-8022 was my baby while at Loring and McConnell from 1992-2000
Silverspank 1 year ago
Still love those pigs, and I miss 'ol Spook 50
boodrow24m 1 year ago
N.K.A.W.T.G
wv2000gxe 1 year ago
N.K.A.W.T.G
DRod79135 1 year ago
i was a jet engine mech at mcconnell back in 2001 and i worked on these planes, we also had the b1 bombers on this base
slymfest 1 year ago
My dad was in charge of a maintenance squadron of these at Westover, and in fact was a part of the team developing the boom for refueling. Kept 90% of his airplanes in the air during the Cuban Missile Crisis and won the AF commendation medal. General Saunders was a friend of ours and he even golfed with Lemay once.
bassbob42 1 year ago
i hated working spook 50...my jet was 0118...stupid mprs...
aparition17 1 year ago
Spook 50 has to be the coolest jet we have at FAFB.
Piddlepack 1 year ago
The question is who HASNT it provided tanker support?
TuAFFalcon 1 year ago
Is the lame Jurassic Park music supposed to remind us that the aircraft rule the same way the dinosaurs did?? LMAO cheesy is not the same as funny. Peace!!
swinetastic 1 year ago
bah this isn't spook50~!
spook 50 was 0050
azis1100 1 year ago
@azis1100 58-0050 to be exact....
Spook50 1 year ago
@Spook50 hawt damn, good man. Where did you work on her at?
azis1100 1 year ago
@azis1100 Here at Fairchild. Been here just over 6 years now.
Spook50 1 year ago
really.. the jurassic park theme?
mikeakaspike 1 year ago
In the summer of 1997 I was trying to get back to Guam with my family. We flew from Travis AFB to McConnell and manifested on a training flight swinging up through Seattle before heading to Anderson AFB via Hickam.
My then wife said to the LoadMaster "he's the only man I know who's so protective of his family he arranges for fighter escort across the ocean".
The LM thought this fairly humorous and arranged for my son to talk to the fighter jocks we were refueling over the Pacific.
MrGunnerRetired 2 years ago
Very nice thanks heaps mate.
TuAFFalcon 2 years ago
Up there along with the B-52.
TuAFFalcon 2 years ago
I was at Minot and Bangor with the AF/MeANG. #59-1493. She was a great ship. Those early mornings, just at dawn doing a prefilight, were some of the best times I ever had....
ffmedic1493 2 years ago
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TheSuperiorAce 2 years ago
I've spent some time in em' and some time guardin' em'... Awesome planes
rustycj7 2 years ago
4258 BW minot 1962-65 sac Tanker chief I think a lot of us old guys know alot of the truth. Wen I was at Castle AFB my plane was a 55 model te second one in the T.O.
TheRichram 2 years ago
two planes KC-135 Stratotanker , go to integrating Chilean air force. ..!!!!!!!
Elkan65 2 years ago
2 come up out of Nellis to KCDC and do touch and goes, makes my day every time. When KSGU gets its new airport I hope they still come up to KCDC.
zapazoid 2 years ago
and.... thans for the chemtrails... ;-) !
ndongousman 2 years ago
To AMARC as CA0195 Mar 2008
indyboom 2 years ago
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ztag123 2 years ago
You deserve the medal of honor for being at Minot.
califsucks 2 years ago
My dad was a navigater on this great peace granting giver but wont share freely of his missions.......hope i know him a li more before he passses
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harley1488 3 years ago
Nice Video. Good choice of music too. Kind of like paying homage to the old dinosaurs of the sky.
RazorsEdge023 3 years ago
Where did 55-3142 end up?
Kingflyer47 3 years ago
i had an internship working on those at macdill afb in tampa fl with 6th maintenance group
cdbz20 3 years ago
Definetley the most unrated and unappreciated planes that the airforce offers. I have always found the KC 135 to be an amazing plane. And my brother now pilots one. He loves it to death. His line is "Don't worry brother we will never run out of gas" LOL the first time i heard that i died laughing.
superbad1982 3 years ago
Great Job!! I crewed 55-3130 at Carswell AFB (Now on display at the March AFB Museum) And 63-8014 at March AFB. My son is now in Tech School at Sheppard and is going to be the next generation of KC-135 Crew Chiefs in my family! Thanks for the great tribute!!!
Batesphotos 3 years ago
Any idea where he will be stationed after he grads from tech?
slick19020 2 years ago
Great job! The best tribute out there. From a new crew chief on 59-1448.
ztag123 3 years ago
NOt anymore the deal is canceled and the AF is holding off on tankers for now. THis tribute rocks
gl8512 3 years ago
sadly, it is going to be replaced by Airbus A330-MATT, known as kc-45
josephtan1818 3 years ago
Actually, that deal was axed when people found serious flaws in the selection process. Basically the acquisitions team kept "revemping" what they wanted to favor the Airbus jet; when the Boeing jet, while smaller, was a far superior piece of equipment.
Spook50 3 years ago
@Spook50 i dont get it, why replace a us made plane for an european? boeing is a great company and has been supporting the us army with planes. i dont get also why replace the kc-135, they are the best at what they do.
harold562 1 year ago
Its a very old airframe. You wana keep the F-4's as well? You cant just keep updating something at a certain point you have to let go. They have served their country well.
TuAFFalcon 1 year ago
@TuAFFalcon thats true but at least they could have asked boeing for a newer design that can refuel more planes at the same time, instead of braking a contract with a US company that has been supporting you for quite some long time.
harold562 1 year ago
Isnt the competition still ongoing? KC-X is still up for grabs. I think Boeing won but the decision was overturned. Boeing and Northrop Grumman/EADS are the main contenders. Although i think Northrop pulled out leaving EADS to challenge Boeing. KC-767 (Boeing) and KC-30 (EADS). Its a bit confusing. Billions and billions are at stake for whoever wins the comp. Plus the winner will probarly get foreign buyers as well once the USAF has chosen its tanker.
TuAFFalcon 1 year ago
@harold562 The USAF wouldn't be breaking a contract, they're on no contractual obligation to continue running them. It was purely a purchase, they could have instantly set them on fire or purposely crashed them all if they wanted! And there is a new Boeing design that's been developed, several actually, based on the 737, 767, and 777. It's being evaluated with some fairness, Boeing once got the contract, but it emerged through bribery involving the CEO himself...
s2k997 1 year ago
@harold562 The reason why they want to replace the KC-135 is the maintence costs have been soaring, the aircraft have been operational well beyond what they were expected to, many parts now have to be custom made, the aircraft through and throughout is obsolete. It'd actually be cheaper to buy in new airframes than to keep these going another ten years and then being forced to as they max their framelives out.(They can tear apart in midair if ran beyond the red line, simply put metal fatigue)
s2k997 1 year ago
@josephtan1818 nah man BOEING WON THE CONTRACT!!! the new tanker will be the Boeing KC-46A
YanYan1337 1 year ago
my dad used to be a navigator in a kc 135
Tomhenry795 3 years ago 2
I get it. Jurassic Park. Dinosaurs. KC-135. Old. Ha.
vtkev62 3 years ago
Very Nice Video to one of the most unrated aircraft ever to serve the fleet. I was a crew chief on TN#59-1493 with 101st ARW. A tough lady who always got us home safe. To all who them, past and present, God Speed to all!Lets kick the tires and light the fires!
ffmedic1493 3 years ago
Way to go, Sra. Moeller. I flew the -135 for 17 of my 21 years in the USAF. It is truly a testament to the enginuity and endurance of American aviation. Your tribute does it justice!
denniswofford 3 years ago
this is a very moving video. thanks!
chubbs1800 3 years ago
Retired KC135 crew cheif and Hydro here 931 ARG FtW
Leetsquad 3 years ago
I'm pretty sure all the 56 models are at DM.
031467794 3 years ago
518 was stationed at Dyess in Abilene Tx. It is currently stationed in Peru, in in the AFRC at the old Grissom AFB.
Actually the best 135 is 56-3635 It had 103 consecutive on-times before she lost water and went late. I love the water wagons, R's were fun but they didn't have the drama of will all engines hit water. :D
031467794 3 years ago
No joke. I saw the last A-model water takeoff in history (last 135A Vomit Comet on its last mission from Ellingotn Field, TX) and when they hit the water it blew my mind (and eardrums). Definitely a hell of a site.
Spook50 3 years ago
I was a Boomer on the KC-135 and to see your tribute just broght tears to my eyes. I showed my Wife and could not even talk seeing it again, Thank you so much for puting the 135 Tribute together.
day8765 3 years ago
LOL the things is as old as a dinosaur....
tbomb83 3 years ago
The Boeing KC-135 Stratotanker is no doubt the greatest aircraft in the world's history of Air Power!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! For some reason, "135" must be my lucky number.. I see it a lot. Also ever since I was little I always liked the "Air Force Tankers" Even when I liked trucks way more than airplanes I've always had a love for the Tankers!!! Beautiful planes!
kc135dood 3 years ago
I crewed the 135 in Minot AFB, 57-2596.
Sweet bird!!
BlkHawks67 3 years ago
I've been crew chiefing on 135's for 26 years now from the A models to E models and finally the R's. Currently 62-3521 at Grissom A.R.B. You can't find a better airframe anywhere! I'll even bet that these new computer designed planes will never last this long. They just don't build them like this any more. Great Tribute!
wingnut3521 3 years ago
cool a F-22 raptor
Lamborghini89636 3 years ago
I crewed the 553142 KC-135, It loved to leak fuel. Did not spend much time on the alert pad. She was a good old girl though. 82 to 84.
KC-135's rule!!!!!!!!!
Kingflyer47 3 years ago
Cool plane. We're going to miss them, especially since now France is going to be building our new tankers and if we want spares and replacements we're going to have to care about what they think of our foreign policy decisions now. Sad but true.
Antiworld23 4 years ago
You speak the truth. The bureaucrats heading the KC-X competition stiffed Boeing by changing the specs they wanted and still urged Boeing to submit the 767, knowing that it wouldn't meet the specs. Had Boeing known what was going on behind closed doors, they would've designed and submitted a KC-777, which would've far exceeded the specs and still met the bid price.
Spook50 4 years ago
very nice! truly interesting.
encarnadenoche 4 years ago
Damn good video!!! I've flown on the "E" "R" and "T" models. Your video makes me realize more and more that I'm going to miss is alot when I go over to the KC-10
135boomer 4 years ago
*sorry for double comment*
Loved the video. My dad flew those. Still has his flight suit, and working on software for the newer models.
SDChick 4 years ago
Is the music from "Jurassic Park"?
SDChick 4 years ago
I mean "R" model with the CFMs..... got ahead of myself!!
1hijax 4 years ago
That is correct. I love working T models, just for the fact that the dual SPRs mean we can double pump and turn 'em quicker! Watch out for that No. 2 valve though...
Spook50 4 years ago
Those are "E"models with the CFMs no more "A" the special "T" model at the time only re-fueled the SR71
1hijax 4 years ago
i flew on 3 kc 135s. best birds in the air!
gocolts1490 4 years ago
I worked on tankers in the mid '80's at RAF Fairford. Great video!
beerbrewer737 4 years ago
PS - Love the music !What is it ?
jbryant13 4 years ago
Brings back lots of memories for me too. I crewed the old A models from 70-74 at Wurtsmith AFB MI. DAMN that was (is) a good airplane ! My entire tech school class from Chanute (8 guys) all got stationed at Wurtsmith together and I was the only one that got assigned to Tankers and initially I was pissed. LITTLE DID I KNOW WHAT A BLESSING THAT WAS ! Lots of TDY's (((SIGH))) - God I miss the Air Force !
jbryant13 4 years ago
Brings back lots of memories. I crewed at McConnell AFB for 9 yrs. We were the first to get the R model. My aircraft was the third R model package, 0293 was the first, It could receive and offload(ARR)
flyboyviiiv 4 years ago
wholly crap, wholly crapola frikin wow crap, and wholly shit even with a hint of jesus christ wow! I did this stuff, that was my jet in the AF. OUTFUKINSTANDING! thank you for making my feel like I might have just made a modecum of a difference instead of just being another number in the military.
justoffabit 4 years ago
Glad to see you liked it, and that my video did that for you. It's definitely a good feeling, knowing you made a difference, isn't it?
Spook50 4 years ago
Jurrasic Park Anyone?
iheart707 4 years ago
Great tribute, what is the song? I worked environmental systems on all c-135 variants and B-52G/H for 13 years, the 135 is the best plane ever built, and that is because it is a Boeing!! Thanks for the tribute, Charles
charles2664 4 years ago
It's the theme from Jurassic Park. I'm now a SSgt and reenlisted for another four years of maintaining these bad boys. At this point I plan on working them until they're out of service.
Spook50 4 years ago
Well lets hope the out of service thing doesn't happen for many years. I think it is the best airplane ever built, but since I started working on them in 1979, guess it is my favorite. What system do you work on, or are you a crew chief, or boomer? Are you on myspace? I am, have a page dedicated to the 135 series there. Do you mind if I use your video there on my page? Take care, Charles
charles2664 4 years ago
Forgot to tell you that this was great! Best video I have seen. How did you get the footage?
lsteph58 4 years ago
Crewed 135's at Griffiss, great planes
Lostsocks 4 years ago
Great Job ! I got choked up watching that - I was a Crew Chief on A models (water injection J-57s!) 69 - 74 - what a GREAT airplane !
jbryant13 4 years ago
my dad refuelled the veryfirst F16
LodiFlames24 4 years ago
Nice video boom. Must have just missed you at Fairchild... you might enjoy my deployment video. Made it in 2004 and just got around to posting it!
DRSH0CKER 4 years ago
My brothers a kc-135 pilot at fairchild :)
Jefe314159 4 years ago
What's his name? I have have gone TDY or been deployed with him.
Spook50 4 years ago
nice jarasic park theme
PortugalKid18 4 years ago
Yeah it seemed fitting when it came up on my playlist while going through photos of my last deployment.
Spook50 4 years ago
Thanks for posting this. My dad was a boomer on KC-135s for many years. The plane always reminds me of him.
skooz86 4 years ago