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Originally Posted by pavulon View Post
This seems to be an image taken by a digital camera of a B-29 using in air refueling which I don't think was ever an option(??). So, does that make it a modern image of a Russian Tu-4?
It actually became one of our first tankers. Here is a KB-29 refueling another KB-29:




Some had the fixed boom, others had the drogue. Oh, and the TU-4 went out of service in the '60's.
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