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F 14 Combat Refueling (Enhanced Video)

[UPDATE 3-21-2019: New video, F-14 Cloud Surfing, uploaded here:    • F 14 Cloud Surfing  ] Here's another one from the archives. I will keep uploading periodically until I run out (which won't take long). This was a night mission over Afghanistan in January or February 2002. Back then, virtually the whole country was enemy territory. The nearest divert was in Pakistan. This made night refueling especially stressful--if you couldn't get gas, you may well be out of options. What would cause you to not get gas? Well, if you can't get in the basket. Or worse--and as happened on a few occasions--if you stab the basket too hard, causing the hose to crack like a whip, and ripping the basket clean off its hose. Now you're not only out of gas, but you have no means to get more. In this particular mission, not only were we refueling at night, but we were doing so on top of a thunderstorm (you can see the lightning in the clouds as we approach the British RAF tanker). Some nights are rougher than others, and this time it took my pilot several tries to get in the basket, with the frustration building each time. He stays calm, however, and finally gets in. We take our gas and head back out on patrol.