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Santa’s ‘sleigh’ receives fuel from Mildenhall tanker

December 24th, 2009
'Twas two weeks before Christmas in the European sky ... I witnessed a KC-135 Stratotanker pumping fuel so a fighter could fly.

A 100th Air Refueling Wing KC-135 aircrew airborne over Denmark refueled 30 Royal Danish Air Force F-16s Dec. 8.

Royal Air Force Mildenhall Airmen were all busy at work ... not realizing in the sky arose such a quirk.

I was taking photos of a formation of four Danish F-16s flying of the right wing of the KC-135 when the most peculiar thing happened.
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