C: MO - Using a tanker to ferry aircraft long distances.

In this video, we take a look at a simple trick to make tankers "drag" other aircraft long distances thanks to constant refueling.

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They should probably patch this bug, KC-135s can only refuel 2 planes at a time.

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It's not a bug per se, rather a deliberate abstraction in the interests of simplicity/reliability. The initial implementation did feature realistic hose-level restrictions for the number of concurrent receivers, but ended up with a lot of edge cases where e.g. receiver #1 would hog the fuel transfer and everyone else in the flight would run out and ditch. So to prevent such cases this abstraction was used instead. The tanker's offload rate is divided by the number of concurrent receivers, so at the end of the operation you have the exact same amount of fuel transferred at the same time that it would take with a realistic per-hose limit. So the end result is the same.