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I hadn't heard this one before. Anyone heard of this/know any further details on this one?

...the aircraft ran out of fuel reportably as a result of refusing to refuel from a USAF female tanker crew. The crew then elected to fly to an alternate base at lower altitude thus burning more fuel, ultimately running out a few kilometres short.

Stupid should hurt.

Click Click D'oh wrote:

...the aircraft ran out of fuel reportably as a result of refusing to refuel from a USAF female tanker crew. The crew then elected to fly to an alternate base at lower altitude thus burning more fuel, ultimately running out a few kilometres short.

Stupid should hurt.

I never realized a "sex check" was part of the A2A refueling checklist for the RSAF.

The tornado database has 765/ZE126 BS168/CS011 crashing on 1/20/91. Cause of crash is listed as "Crashed 7m short on appraoch to Hafar Al-Batin air field. Pilot Error, failed to take aerial re fuel opportunity and subsequently ran out of fuel and crashed"

Lucky that they survived - the Tornado is a heavy beast not known for being a capable glider.

Click Click D'oh wrote:

...the aircraft ran out of fuel reportably as a result of refusing to refuel from a USAF female tanker crew. The crew then elected to fly to an alternate base at lower altitude thus burning more fuel, ultimately running out a few kilometres short.

Stupid should hurt.

There are various instances of such cringe-worthy stupidity throughout Bae/Panavia's dealings with the Saudis. One story went that some urgent parts for an AOG were refused because the final inspector was called Leslie, the Saudi recipients not clocking the fact that Leslie is also a man's name.

JLAmber wrote:There are various instances of such cringe-worthy stupidity throughout Bae/Panavia's dealings with the Saudis. One story went that some urgent parts for an AOG were refused because the final inspector was called Leslie, the Saudi recipients not clocking the fact that Leslie is also a man's name.

Next Red Flag they get invited to the aggressor squadron needs to find all the female pilots they can.. To absolutely kick the ever loving shit out of them.

I would expect this kind of nonsense from some illiterate backwards sandmonkey
who has received no further education than that out of their little book of
horrors , but from an officer/fighter-pilot who must have had more than your average level of education and exposure to the rest of the world , certainly by Saudi standards, this is a little bit worrying to say the least.

But than again speaking from personal experience, maybe I'm not that surprised at all.

captoveur wrote:
Next Red Flag they get invited to the aggressor squadron needs to find all the female pilots they can.. To absolutely kick the ever loving shit out of them.

That is an excellent idea!

Arniepie wrote:I would expect this kind of nonsense from some illiterate backwards sandmonkey
who has received no further education than that out of their little book of
horrors , but from an officer/fighter-pilot who must have had more than your average level of education and exposure to the rest of the world , certainly by Saudi standards, this is a little bit worrying to say the least.

But than again speaking from personal experience, maybe I'm not that surprised at all.

The RSAF isn't so much an Air force as a Royal Flying club. Don't expect too much.

Maybe he wasn't keen on the imagery of her huge fueling boom penetrating his aircraft and filling it to the brim with her powerful and explosive fluid.

Fumanchewd wrote:Maybe he wasn't keen on the imagery of her huge fueling boom penetrating his aircraft and filling it to the brim with her powerful and explosive fluid.

So what are you saying?
He wanted it to be a man who put his huge fueling boom penetrating his aircraft and filling it to the brim with his powerful and explosive fluid.

Arniepie wrote:

Fumanchewd wrote:Maybe he wasn't keen on the imagery of her huge fueling boom penetrating his aircraft and filling it to the brim with her powerful and explosive fluid.

So what are you saying?
He wanted it to be a man who put his huge fueling boom penetrating his aircraft and filling it to the brim with his powerful and explosive fluid.

Yes! It is certainly better for him to not be emasculated by a woman perhaps.