On 23 January 2007, the KC-767 flight test aircraft set a program milestone by making its first hookup with a receiver aircraft, a Boeing B-52 Stratofortress.
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The flying boom is attached to the rear of the tanker aircraft . The attachment is gimballed, allowing the boom to move with the receiver aircraft . The boom contains a rigid pipe to transfer fuel.
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Modern specialized tanker aircraft have equipment specially designed for the task of offloading fuel to the receiver aircraft, based on drogue and probe, even at the higher speeds modern jet aircraft typically need to remain airborne.
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This is so that if a large side or vertical load develops while in contact with the drogue, the rivets shear and the fuel valve breaks off, rather than the probe or receiver aircraft suffering structural damage.
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;An-12BZ-2 : In 1969 Antonov proposed IFR tanker and receiver variants of the An-12B . The An-12BZ-2 was the receiver aircraft with a fixed probe above the cockpit.
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At the Victor's final refuelling bracket, the sortie flew into a violent thunderstorm, during which the receiver aircraft's refuelling probe failed, forcing the provider aircraft to swap places and take back the fuel.
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In June 1943, in-flight refueling trials were conducted at Eglin with a Boeing B-17E Flying Fortress as a receiver aircraft by Pennsylvania Central Airlines with the assistance of Flight Refuelling Limited engineers from the United Kingdom.
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The cost of the refueling equipment on both tanker and receiver aircraft and the specialized aircraft handling of the aircraft to be refueled ( very close " line astern " formation flying ) has resulted in the activity only being used in military operations.
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Tension on the hose is aerodynamically'balanced'by a motor in the HDU so that as the receiver aircraft moves fore and aft, the hose retracts and extends, thus preventing bends in the hose that would cause undue side loads on the probe.
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The two wing-mounted hose and drogue refueling pods ( made by Sargent Fletcher ) can each transfer up to 300 gallons per minute to two aircraft simultaneously allowing for rapid cycle times of multiple-receiver aircraft formations ( a typical tanker formation of four aircraft in less than 30 minutes ).
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