Foxtrot Alpha reader 'B-1 Pilot' sent over this awesome video showing what it is like refueling a B-1B 'Bone' via a KC-135R over Afghanistan. You can see that the first connect resulted in sheet of fuel-spray covering the windscreen, the second worked better.
The hand-eye coordination to make a regular feat like this happen is just bewildering.
Just as a bonus, here is another one of 'B-1 Pilot's' videos showing what cloud surfing in a quarter of a million pound, supersonic swing-wing bomber is like:
A Big thanks to B-1 Pilot for sending us these awesome videos. Keep safe over Afghanistan and please, send more!
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