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A comment on JP-7.

Re:JP-7 by pram on Wednesday July 29, 2020 @07:22AM (#23985473)
I was an inflight-refueling technician in the USAF and there was a variant of the tanker (KC-135T) that had isolated tanks to specifically carry this stuff, for refueling an SR-71. Sadly that was before my time. A neat little factoid tho, I guess.
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Re:JP-7 by savoytruffle on Wednesday July 29, 2020 @11:17AM (#23987564)
Wikipedia indicates it was originally KC-135Q with the unique fuel system (which separates the exotic SR-71 fuel payload from the typical fuel to fly the refueling plane). KC-135T was the re-engined variant using modernized engines like the rest of the fleet.
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