Life Aboard US Tanker Aircraft Cooking Pizza at Extreme Altitudes

[@Pauly365]

About 85% of this had nothing to do with pizza....

[@beepbong]

bros obese brain cant stop thinking about pizza

[@chadly19]

And like half of it is just complete nonsense

[@fudalefu1]

I clicked for the pizza. Doesn’t look that bad. I’d eat it in a pinch and enjoy it immensely.

[@recoil53]

I definitely ate worse in college. I'd eat it if I were in a hurry. I'm just surprised they didn't prep them on the ground.

[@tightlines106]

Who else came here the extreme cooking of pizza

[@ScottMay-m1g]

Add heavy metal music and it's suddenly EXTREME!

[@pwinters8]

Guys is hot as F! Would let him bend me over at any altitude!😅

[@Zebcaramel]

What

[@devinmartin7626]

We came for the pizza cooking not a how its made of a stupid air refuel'r

[@Joan101b]

Where's the pizza?😂

[@MarcSherwood]

The note on the component at 10:56 is an instant classic.

[@wklokow]

Why?

[@tristendo2755]

$90,000,00

[@wileycyote1969]

there is always THAT Senior SNCO that might actually do it, so heed his warning carefully, as you don't get a second warning😂

[@FlushtheSystem]

Bravo Good Sir.

[@Vespyr_]

​@@wklokow Read the note. It's on the device.

[@przemyslawjaworowski9320]

Facts: When you are in service for some reason, people like everything hot. The guy just put jalapeños on the pizzas. Me and my buddies would put hot sauce on everything when we served.

[@MrStensnask]

Probably because everything is so bland

[@EarthPoweredHippie]

Its the same in jail. Anything not served by the state is super spicy, or sweet and spicy

[@wileycyote1969]

Facts: If you're USMC it's to mask the taste of "joining the wrong branch", and that awful taste of "my e-2 buddy in the airforce is eating steak in his apartment sized barracks room" the pain in the spice pulls you back to reality😂

[@patrickharper9297]

we had a hot food competition at ghengis grill in killeen texas when we came back from iraq... i don't think anyone ate all of their food, and im pretty sure everyone got sick that day

[@brickerhaus]

Um a galley on a KC-135 is pretty small. That is not a KC-135 galley. That is a KC-10. Actually the flying boom actually helps stabilize the trailing aircraft.

[@tomking1890]

You are right on that.

[@jacktorrance2633]

What is an "Um a galley"?

[@larry648]

All I remember is “box nasties” from the in flight kitchen. Hot coffee and cold food, it’s the Air Force way. But on the ground we did eat well.

[@chadcook3709]

Umm, go back to watching Star Wars

[@AG-ol2gb]

​@@jacktorrance2633 kitchen aboard a ship, be it under, on, or above the sea.

[@joephillips7612]

Don't drop that laser scanner! 10:55

[@purple_oak]

I didn't notice that sticker at first haha

[@dukeofdevon5608]

I noticed it 😂😂😂

[@BeanzAviation3967]

HAha!

[@LOLTV-rt5dw]

$90k for the laser scanner is definitely a steal comparing to a bag of $90k bushings.

[@Amos-fn7ie]

lol bro

[@brdowns2]

You are mixing aircraft. I was a KC-10 crew chief and then worked on the KC-135. The galley is the KC-10. The drogue shots from the big open window in the back is a KC-10. The sitting boomer (instead of laying down) is a KC-10 shot. A boomer on the KC-10 once told me that he could use the KC-135 boom to move aircraft into the proper position once connected, but not the KC-10 as the automatic disconnect would kick in. Both are incredible aircraft. Sadly, the KC-10 saw it's last flight this year, replace by the KC-46.

[@nicholasklangos9704]

Yup! I crewed 135s for 17 years you are correct!

[@darwinawardcommittee]

Are the probe couplings magnetic? I’ve always wondered

[@NordicDan]

Beat me to it. Crew chief on 135s for ten years and been aboard 10s a couple times. The 10s are a lot more "cushy", when they actually fly 😂 135s are very spartan on the inside. Also no extreme altitudes or speeds on these. No different from a smaller airliner.

[@Jduc750]

the 95 % of us non military viewers could care less………

[@dynamo1796]

They’re even mixing airforces lol - there’s a a shot of an RAF Pilot Officer at the start

[@telekommandant]

This pizza is the most freshest food item you would ever get on any aircraft of the world. Even in 1st class they just served pre-prepared meals.

[@johnsmith9161]

The Pizza and toppings were pre-prepared I used to make the meals for airlines any food that is 2 days old goes in the staff lunchroom fridge. On the ground the food is delicious I put on 30LB in 6 months I lived solely on these meals. It is a real science how these meals are prepared all learned from NASA. When putting meals together for the Pilots nothing came from the same batch or preparation area unlike on this aircraft where they both ate from the same batch and same food. We all ate the food and knew what tasted the best and that's exactly what we gave the Pilots. You could not fit another grain of rice on the trays after we finished loading them up.

[@fudalefu1]

“It’s a drone that can re-fuel an aircraft. Virtually no drawbacks” “On cool, cool. Can we stick an anti ship missile in it?” That’s the most America thing I’ve seen in a while. God bless America.

[@michaelbell9475]

That was a KC-10 galley not KC-135

[@ahill209]

And it wasn't being prepared at "extreme altitude". Cabin altitude in a KC-10 is about the same as the DC-10/MD-11. Like making a pizza in Denver for most cruising altitudes.

[@jeadie2273]

Yup, no 135 I’ve ever been on has a galley like this.

[@anthonygnewbreast1609]

Doesn't matter it was pizza

[@jeadie2273]

@@anthonygnewbreast1609🤣🤣🤣

[@nicholasklangos9704]

Looked more Mexican...

[@Beauxtrux]

Pizza anywhere is worth a look!

[@alexsnell8177]

That’s why I clicked on it!

[@nghtwtchmn129]

To paraphrase Daria Morgendorffer's graduation speech: There in no time in life that cannot be improved by pizza.

[@alexsnell8177]

@@nghtwtchmn129 sadly, I can name a few times pizza wouldn’t help. 😞

[@nghtwtchmn129]

@@alexsnell8177 Well, yes, but let's not be too literal here.

[@evanshannon]

“Military aircraft can stay aloft as long as their fuel lasts” *pilots have entered the chat*

[@ErikOlaf-g9y]

AS long as the "pilots fuel" lasts...bladder as well....

[@Narel666]

Dont the fighter jets have a rudimentary toilet in them as well??? ​@@ErikOlaf-g9y

[@robertwilkins8357]

What you men and women do is so amazing to me , what you learn and make happen, God bless warriors!

[@scottd9448]

I still find it amazing that there are so many 707's in service.

[@tomking1890]

Many of those aircraft were on alert for weeks at a time so the total hours per year were low. That extended their life.

[@stuartdavis798]

Actually a 717. NKAWTG!

[@BobSpiffy1]

The kc-135 is different from a 707. It is technically the first Boeing 717. It does not have a flight engineer’s panel. Systems operation and management was done by the copilot. There were many 707 and 720 series aircraft in service with the U.S. military. Just not the KC-135.

[@truethought2581]

322,500 lbs. And it flies, safely. Thank you Wright brothers. I'll bet they would have never thought that amount of weight could fly. Amazing stuff.

[@Oooonumbers]

It is. Now consider a 777 max takeoff weight is 775,000 lbs and can hold 320,000 lbs of fuel, a 747 can be over 980,000 lbs and can take up to around 420,000 lbs of fuel, and an A380 is over 1.2 million lbs and can hold around 560,000 lbs of fuel. Before the AN-225 was lost in the Ukrainian war, it could takeoff at over 1.4 million lbs and hold 660,000 lbs of fuel.

[@truethought2581]

@Oooonumbers lololol thanks for making it even more amazing!! Love flight and all the science involved.... Still amazed all that weight gets airborne safely, daily... Hey, be blessed and thanks for the numbers.... really appreciate it. 👍

[@SeanBZA]

@@Oooonumbers And that AN225 often needed every foot of the runway, plus a bit more, to take off as well with a full load.

[@truethought2581]

@@SeanBZA cool stuff.

[@mjsbbs]

That refueling drone is really cool. Haven't seen that one before.

[@hectormelendez4891]

I came here to see pizza cooked in a sky. What the hell??

[@Howtofewithlove]

Like the military cares about the environment.. And thankyou for the 30 seconds of pizza....

[@softwareshinobi]

i chuckled so much at "it's a drone and it refuels and also it drops bombs". i mean... why wouldn't it? why not.

[@robertwilkins8357]

My buddy was the crew chief and was the youngest , he got me the flight in the Huskie over Newfoundland. He still working for the government and insisted late 70s. He did Air Force and then Navy and did extremely well I think retired. He is a brilliant guy.

[@livefromrestonva5025]

Did he cook pizza at extreme altitudes?

[@robertwilkins8357]

@livefromrestonva5025 come on are you real?

[@chapman1569]

Turbulence is probably the biggest thing to overcome when refueling. This was a very interesting video, thanks

[@mephistosprincipium]

eating pizza, hanging out with your buddies while flying and operating military equipment, I should have joint the air force

[@Ozandup-only]

40 minutes of just refueling in the air sounds crazy.

[@MaggieKeizai]

Once I took a KC-10 flight across the pacific. It was fun when the pilot casually popped back into the passenger seat area and joked around with us while he heated up his leftovers in the oven. Just a hungry guy getting his lunch fixed up.

[@SeanBZA]

Same with me, accidentally getting a trip in the presidential aircraft, because the aircraft assigned to us was not actually going to the destination, and this one was, doing the IFR as well, with a perfect view out of each side as well. We did also need all 4000m/13000ft of runway, plus a little bit more, to take off. 1742ft altitude and 41C/106F ambient, and probably closer to 45C/113F on that runway, with no wind.

[@joshflugel]

Best pizza I ever had. The altitude made the yeast in the dough so damn good.

[@johnwhite2293]

Absolutely amazing, people and plains, I bet they get free beers at every bar they go to if there’s other pilots there

[@SeanBZA]

The kitchen is a lot better than the alternative of eating MRE's, or having a prepacked meal from the local mess that came on board with you, getting the meal of the previous day in most cases, and in general no condiments at all.

[@samlogan8096]

Retired in 96, but I'll reminisce about the famed Air Force box lunches from the 70s. They were about the size of a shoe box, served cold, but included fried chicken, sandwiches, juice, milk, chips, a dessert/candy bar of some type, and an apple. Each base prided itself with the quality of the box lunch. Some may prefer the warmed up microwave dinners of later times, but the cold box lunch could keep you happy for six hours.

[@SeanBZA]

@@samlogan8096 You were lucky. my one neighbour worked at what was called the Food Factory, where I often got hints on what to avoid in the following week, on the grounds that "It was not my best". when you get a breakfast that was cooked a week or more ago, and then frozen, including the toast, the eggs and the mystery meat mix, you knew you might not like it. Lucky I had a friend who worked at Q stores, where we could get the expiring 7 day rat packs, and use those at work, though not using the smokeless heaters, as we did all have microwave ovens, or just leave the can on top of the test bench to warm up. Then spent 6 weeks at another place on TDY, where I found you can make a boiled egg that will both bounce, go through a windscreen, and be totally black inside. Also a municipal bus driver who would drop us off at a point, go through into an area, with the Borg cube in it, and collect us on the way out. He had the correct security clearances for there, in a municipal bus, while we did not.

[@stuartdavis798]

@@samlogan8096 When I was single I would even get on when all we were going to do was the pattern. I really liked the fried chicken at Loring!

[@AndrewEvrard-oc8ig]

I caught a hop McCord to Andrews a few years ago. They let me lay in the boom operators couch. I watched America for a couple of hours, great flight.

[@stevesmodelbuilds5473]

Awesome levels of skill. Train, train, train.

[@iU0n]

I wonder if this job is as fun as it looks

[@xyzzy09876]

Don't drop that laser!

[@TaigaShaman]

Pre-flight checklist: - pizza ✅ - Coca-Cola ✅

[@midwaythomastaylor7thss688]

As former maintenance and occasional crew for this aircraft the KC-135. Never have i ever seen a set up like that. Only if we had some sort of high level General or something else on the aircraft is when we had seats. Otherwise no seats just cargo. If we had a galley it sure would have helped during those long flights overseas. We had to bring our own food and maybe a bagged lunch was provided.

[@mendodsoregonbackroads6632]

We didn’t have all that protective gear for a plane wash when I was in back in the 90’s. We just wore our uniforms and were soaked to the skin with all those cleaning chemicals and the soot and residue from the aircraft.

[@justis4men211]

Airman get screened at your local VA for Exposure.

[@stevodakine1]

I can’t imagine having to do that day in and day out. Special guys.

[@truethought2581]

I fly a flight simulator that's very accurate. In my F-16 it took my many many flight hours to achieve a successful Ariel refuel... These young men make it look easy. Trust me, it is not. God bless our troops. Their actions keep us safe.

[@Douchebigelow7368]

In the simulator do they make pizzas in the galley under Xtreme conditions?

[@truethought2581]

@Douchebigelow7368 lolol... no. Too funny. 😉 Be blessed.

[@MikeFL2TX]

@@Douchebigelow7368maybe they eat hot pockets or pizza rolls to simulate!?

[@vanroeling2930]

Dominos Pizza delivers!

[@christopherrobinson7541]

In flight refeeding?

[@joefnh]

30 minutes or less or it’s free !

[@tackuyumcu2626]

8:50 cleaning ASMR 🙂🙂

[@aquilaz56]

I came here to learn about high altitude cooking of pizza. Not inflight fueling like I have seen multiple times.

[@Truthbomb918]

U want to know how an oven works is it?

[@dmac7128]

Its interesting to note that the US Navy and Air Force use different refueling systems. I believe the reason the US Navy uses the drogue system because it is more compact and able to be installed on smaller carrier based aircraft, such as the tanker variants of the F/A-18 and the older A-6s when they were in service. Plus that system can be used tor refueling rotor based craft like the SH-60s and V-22 Ospreys. The boom system probably has some advantages though. Overall it seems to be safer and gives more precise control and placement of the probe. If you notice on nearly every aircraft with refueling capabilities in the Air Force, there are markings on the dorsal side in front of the site where the probe connects to the receiving aircraft. I believe this is a visual aid for the boom operator to line up the probe for docking.

[@48pluto]

I came to the video for the pizza. Surprised that they still don't have a atomic food replication device in this type of aircraft. Well maybe in 10 years from now. Pizza still didn't look bad but... Yeah it is what it is. There is room for improvement for sure.

[@alexsnell8177]

Can you imagine refueling back in the day??? “The bi planes of the 1920s attempted to refuel by passing back and forth gas cans” can you imagine the skill that required??

[@wileycyote1969]

1:33 tell me im not the only one that saw Tobey Maguire😂💀

[@bdogjr7779]

Bravo《☆》👍🏾😎🏈👉🍕🍺

[@ainhoasamford8046]

Pilotos pero no dejan de ser una gasolinera con alas, es todo un arte mantener el avión estable para el suministro de carburante

[@rhinkletattoo]

90k for a laser!? lol wonder if Knapp ever had to hold up his end of the deal lol. Very cool content! Keep it up 🤘💯

[@marleyboy7732]

I bet a bit of air turbulence during the fueling makes for a huge pucker moment!😅

[@j.b.335]

12:15 ... cuz we aint gonna build a damn thing unless we can strap a weapon to it .

[@martykarr7058]

This stuff started back with the B-36. You see, to reach the targets at the speeds the aircraft flew at took many hours, so in the middle of the HUGE plane they had an area with bunks and a small kitchen. You reached it from the flight deck via a tunnel over the bomb bays.

[@BigD-t1u]

I saw this on that movie Air Force One and it didn’t go too well.

[@wannamontana4130]

Here's my question: If would be good to hear more about how they continually balance the weight that is continually changing as they offload fuel to differing planes. This must be quite delicate given the need to be very steady.

[@idubzh243]

10:38 : Windows 98 ! For sure these footages are not recent... And I remember to have seen the cooking of pizzas several years ago in another video (filming the same crew cruising).

[@coldsamon]

Could be using virtualization to run older software. Many banks are using software from the 1980s for ACH transfers in particular.

[@idubzh243]

@@coldsamon Nah, like many enterprises they have specific software that comes with the computer. They are not going to buy a new computer and virtualize anything. They have an old laptop with the adequat software and that's all... They are workers fixing things on the plane it needs to work straight from the box. They are not geeks, or maybe they are, but in their private life.

[@coldsamon]

@idubzh243 You changed your narrative. Typical.

[@idubzh243]

@@coldsamon No I didn't ! But you want to see what you want to see. I'm telling the footages are quite old, and W98 is a proof for that. I don't know if you mean what w98 is ? They could use XP in 2005 to run their software but they didn't... So, it is quite old footages you are watching and they are not telling it to you. That's my point. I don't see people watching their phones neither, even alphanumeric mobiles. Because it was filmed when nobody as a mobile phone... This sounds (to me don't get me wrong) like an old postcard you can buy today as if it is brand new. But it's not. New or not, the picture on card is very old. It's not because it's not in black & white that it can't be old...

[@user-cr8xm1gw6y]

Nope, this is Window 7 Windows Classic theme you can google it

[@infini.tesimo]

I feel like they could get away with having an air fryer in there and really make some good food

[@goodwinter6017]

Where's the pizza cooking?!?!

[@trentmiller5072]

And 9 months later we have baby jets 😊.

[@zargonfuture4046]

How do you beat a nation that can make pizzas🍕 for their crew in their war machines in the sky...😳😳😳 ....

[@ronaldckrausejr7762]

Take popcorn onboard a ship or a plane. It has that mystery ingredient that someone can smell it from far away. Just how far? If one were to cook it at one end of an aircraft carrier, they could clearly smell it at the other end of the carrier

[@RichardJones-fr7xn]

I love people who know it all about nothing

[@BagoPorkRinds]

They didn't have these luxuries such as an oven or microwave when I flew Space A in a KC-135 from Hickam to Fairchild in the early 1980s. The toilet was a just a plastic bag in a metal trash bin with no seat. 😅

[@TheFlyingZulu]

4:34 not a KC135... at least that's not how the 100s of KC135s that I worked on was set up. The small toaster oven was on the right side of the aircraft just aft of the avionics computer rack.

[@bobbybabsonjr787]

The one on my ACFT never worked, crew just are box nasties, good times .

[@naeemmohammed6542]

pizza on air i like good job

[@Sevisstillalive]

I swear i watched this like 2 3 years ago.

[@gigginbig3]

Improving the moral😂

[@alexsnell8177]

Pizza looks tastier than an MRE.

[@aaaaaaaaaa97]

that pizza video has been reused so many times now and so old. the original showed so much more of the pizza

[@kfcriss]

lunchables in the microwave while working at the flying gas-station, lololol

[@artvandelay6306]

“You may approach.” “Okay, boomer.” “You son of a…”

[@fudalefu1]

The fact that they put an anti ship missile on a refueling drone is the most American fuck yeah thing I’ve seen in a while. Like yeah it’s just a drone to refuel, but can it also have a missile?

[@mcs2468]

Came just for pizza 🍕 nothing else

[@nola3864]

i can confirm my lunch on the KC-135 is a 4 pack of uncrustables, next question thank you.

[@kenjkbs]

Jesus! The pizza making starts at 4mins inyo the video

[@pate7179]

Why would you even want to try to fight these guys they have burger kings and pizza with them no matter where they go

[@ConKhiMyDen]

wHeRe aRe ThE GlOVes?

[@filipecoutinho5706]

Total of 10 secs of the dude cooking ...

[@gerardomorgado6853]

Qué lástima que estos documentales no estén en español

[@FeyTheBin]

7:18 Seeing an Osprey refueling gives me anxiety.

[@retrorewindllc9363]

If u could only smoke while working ... Man.. mmm..

[@bigkilla2608]

3:50 plane looks tiny in comparison

[@Tuskil1]

@4:35 that is not a KC-135. It could be some other 135 or 707 variant. But not a KC-135.

[@IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII-q1b]

It looks like a cessna 172 to me.

[@Tuskil1]

@@IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII-q1b 🤣😂

[@IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII-q1b]

@@Tuskil1 🤣🤣🤣

[@lutomson3496]

when we flew missions we ordered our meals from the mess hall ahead of time we specified what we wanted rarely did we cook anything takes time and resources...

[@bigbadjohn8207]

“Ok boomer”

[@pedrogunner9750]

I’d just like to point out that I was Air Force air crew. We didn’t have any of these nice things on our helicopters. No AC, not much heat and the seats were not comfortable haba

[@명균오]

제목이 유조선 항공기? 번역을 잘못한건지 아쉽네

[@italjahcorntrashroller]

I had a repurpased kc135 that i would load cauasulties into using the high deck truck at bagrahm. 1 of 3. Any one else?

[@TheCabledawg1]

They showed the place where they make the pizza, but why not show the laundromat, bowling alley, and barber shop in the aft section?

[@howardsternssmicrophone9332]

What aircraft refuels the Air Tanker when the Air Tanker gets low on fuel?

[@Ozandup-only]

That 90k scanner might be the only tool they got the actual price on😂 everything else is 100x its actual price for them

[@Rickyboricky]

You guys have a galley? I thought you subsisted on box lunches.

[@w0web]

Can they refill the drop tanks inflight????

[@wannamontana4130]

Imagine: MQ-25 Drones delivering fuel to drones to keep them on location indefinitely

[@jamesarnett2118]

we didnt have ovens when i worked on the kc135a in the 80s

[@plplerer11]

هل أنتم مجرمون

[@RealMTBAddict]

Ok

[@martingrof1685]

@@plplerer11 ?

[@ericvonp]

Tru dat….

[@tomwilson1006]

Bcuz it was a KC-10 in the video.

[@본성구-q9r]

It would b safe to install the air fuel injection port of all kinds aircraft in the front of the aircraft. More safe especially night time

[@brianbursaw9296]

I've been watching for 4 minutes now. I've yet to see a single pizza :(

[@Dan-o4c6g]

Draining the old bladder

[@Twikkilol]

Just for the young audience here, no the "boomer" is not an old person

[@ajspice]

12:20 Those anti-shit missles don't mess around.

[@Truthbomb918]

It's tough being in the Airforce alright

[@JustinToby-s9f]

There ain’t no kicking-a$$ without tanker gas.

[@templeton3504]

Bahahaha damn i was really hoping they were gonna show the KC-135 kitchen/galley/forms desk and how it cooks a pizza assuming it works, Lucky you can heat water most times 😂