You could always go the radioactive-tampon route.

And he'll look damn good doing it.

Probably a white balance thing. The boom nozzle light also appears too blue to me. Most of the lights you'd see from a plane with your own eyes appear yellow because the most common lights in cities are street lights and those are so yellow.

These are great shots of night refueling because they give an accurate view of how well illuminated the receiver and boom are. I never was able to capture the way the operation appeared to me, almost always coming up with either super dark photos or super shaky blurry abstract light paintings.

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You don't gauge what's best by comparing objective data or polling a large group for a collective opinion. You figure out what's best by sitting on your ass, daydreaming, thinking to yourself, "Hell yes, this thing rules so damn hard. In fact, take every other thing and toss it in the trash, throw the trash into a…

Looks neat but I use one of these:

You can quit looking. I found it.

I wasn't aware of that, but it makes sense. However, I know for a fact that they still suck FOD up on a regular basis despite that.

One day during a long weekend in England, a friend of mine brought 2 bottles of vitamin water with him on our poorly-thought-out pub and bar crawl. After each drink, he'd take a drink from the vitamin water, and he alleged that it prevented hangovers. I decided to conduct a scientific test and made myself the control…

Guam rules and even though I got kicked out of that all-you-can-eat sushi-go-round for being a loud-and-drunk-sack-of-crap, I have every intention of going back.

I don't have much to add, you actually covered all of the things I had thought about when I watched that strange Sprey diatribe but I wanted to just emphasize something about the low observable stuff.

FOD is big problem, then again the C-17 is designed to work in austere locations, which means dirt and gravel runways. Putting the wings and engines higher help, but there's something they do within the engine that makes it so they can operate in those locations without issues.

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Whenever humidity is high (like in the Persian Gulf countries) or there's water on the tarmac, these vapor vortexes form when they push the throttle up on reverse thrust. Usually it's just the outboard engines, but I've seen all 4 pulling up monster tornadoes before.

"...within 6 to 10 days."

Yeah, poopin' on the plane is a bad time, every time. The only winning move is not to poop on the plane. Thankfully, deployed DFAC food is wildly efficient at stopping up one's tract.

The 'joystick and monitor' is over-simplifying it a tad. The operator sim I played with (not the final version, but still a good representation) had a full control panel for all the lights and various boom and drogue functions, the control sticks for flying and extending the boom, and a large and fairly high…

I liked it but I went in wanting to fly. So fly I did. I was injured and now I am medically retired, but if I had the ability to keep flying, I absolutely would have. Long droning flights burning holes in the sky over Afghanistan, long droning flights cutting a path over some ocean, long droning flights spent…