The pilot can't possibly see anything.
Is there a reason why they aren't using that tube that comes out of the nose?
How is the F-22 pilot supposed to know where the tube is?
The pilot can't possibly see anything.
Is there a reason why they aren't using that tube that comes out of the nose?
Doesn’t need to. All he needs is to get close enough and the boom operator can steer the boom to the proper place
Tanker boom operator puts the tube in the hole. It's gimballed, not a fixed boom
He knows where the tube is by knowing where it isnt.
That's right. By knowing where it isn't, he knows how to guide the boom to where it should be.
and the boom by being where it should be knows where it is not and thus the boom operator is a troon
He just has to stay still and let it happen.
He's in the airforce, i am sure he has plenty of experience.
I don’t think you realize the fricking helmet technology they have now you fricking imbecile. The helmet the pilot wears makes it seem as if he is flying in a fricking invisible jet. Like a half vr half real life make up of his surroundings. He can fricking see everything.
Why don't they use a bigger tube? Seems awfully small
A size queen eh?
>The pilot can't possibly see anything.
He's in constant communication with the boom operator, and after a couple hook-ups he can use parts of the tanker as reference points to know where he is in relation to the boom. He only needs to get close, as the boom operator can fly the boom to the filling port.
>Is there a reason why they aren't using that tube that comes out of the nose?
Because that's a Navy tanker hook-up. F-22 is Air Force which only uses booms.
DID SOMEBODY SAY BOOM?!
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FUEOOOOOLER detected.
Boom refueling is weird, you just use the lights under the tanker to get your plane in position and the boom operator does the rest. Personally I hate it compared to probe-and-drogue.
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To answer the second part of your question, USAF developed the boom system for its bombers in the '50s. The boom can handle a larger volume of fuel than the probe and drogue system developed in the '40s, and that means less time spent filling up each plane. So, it's more efficient.
The USN never switched over to it, though, because it requires a boom operator, which means you need a large plane that is most likely land-based, and the USN really likes buddy refueling (where one fighter or bomber carries special pods and uses them to refuel the others). Sure, it would have been possible to develop a C-2 or S-3 variant with a boom system, but you'd still be strictly limiting the number of planes that could perform the refueling mission, and that would reduce the flexibility of the air wing. Instead, the USN kept using the older probe and drogue system, built a small number of A-6 variants as tankers (which have since been retired), and today just use F-18s with buddy pods to refuel whenever a land-based tanker isn't available.
If fat people can jerk off then the pilot doesn’t need to be able to see the tube