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Video: Blue Angels and Thunderbirds aim for flyover of Baltimore, Atlanta and DC this weekend
The U.S. Navy Blue Angels and U.S. Air Force Thunderbirds performed a very rare joint flyover above New York City, Trenton, Newark, and Philadelphia on Wednesday to honor health care and essential workers fighting the COVID-19 pandemic. (dcnewsroom.blogspot.com) 更多...
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It would be great if FlightAware could track the progress of these flights as they transit between the three main cities. Presumably they will be flying over a large part of the East Coast and it would be fun to wave as they pass overhead!
Question. In the video the AF and Navy planes were refueled in different ways, do tanker have the ability to do either way or are they single purpose?
Tankers have flying boom for AF and drogue for Navy and Marine Corp.
I believe the new KC-46 Pegasus will have both capabilities from the outset. KC-135 modified with wing mounted HDU's are available, don't know how common they are. (Sargeant-Fletcher pods-also adapted to smaller aircraft KA-6 Intruder, KA-3 Skywarrior platforms)
