Aerial Refueling Accidents Examined 

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I hate it when that happens while refueling my jet fighter

fr what I really like about this channel and is extremely underrated, is that for each information you give, whether it's in metric or american system, it has it's equivalent, that way you don't have to constantly think about what is what

Q: how large is your team? I know you always do the voices, but you get alot of information in a pretty fast time.

Hey NWYT, I have an idea. What if you put a note in one corner of the video clips which are accurate, like original footage from the incident for example, and which clips are reconstructed or which are just for visual when theres no original footage available. This might help when watching your videos and shorts, which are great by the way, quite informative, with actual footage and an seemingly well researched backgroundstory, which sadly is not the standard with other channels.

I work with Tsgt’s Smith’s daughter. She always speaks highly of him and often recounts what a great and selfless man he was. He was the embodiment of the PJ’s motto: “these things we do, that others may live”

This channel has slowly become one of my favourites. Nice research and competent narration. Keep up the good work.

"That's what she said, the pilot" Man slick with it.

While I will say that the ch53 was in a good situation to attempt an autorotation, high altitude and forward speed, those big helicopters autorotate like a safe. They expect to lose the tail and roll on their side in a best case scenario. But it's not like aerial refueling is their only hope, they try not to run that low on fuel.

Always get excited when there's a new NWYT video!

Actually at 1:15 the autopilot kicked off, yes because of bow way phenomenon, causing the tanker to climb, because of the out of trim condition. The tail lowers abruptly causing what you see from that time stamp. Very scary for all involved,-exKc-135 pilot

Also the electric igniters on jet engines are _terrifyingly_ powerful.

I really appreciate you including normal people measuring units on the bottom right corner

aerial refueling is saying " i don't need food, i can play outside 400 KM away from my home and super far away from any place to eat food at" then suddenly craving food a few minutes later only for the food to be super unhealthy.

When those tanker pilots received those DFCs I thought, “Dang, I wonder what it was life in the cockpit.”

01:00 Before I heard about the bow wave, I thought the E-3 had just hit the tanker's wing vortices... Another lesson learned! Thanks for that! 👍

Hey, really like your videos and appreciate that you also show the distance and so on in meters. Keep up the good videos:)

My understanding of inflight refueling is that missions are designed with safe diverts available if refueling fails. Assuming a non-catastrophic collision, of course.

Best use I've seen yet for cauliflower.

I love how everyone panicked from refueling except that one lady she casually stopped the pump and pulled out like no biggie

The way you put humor into this stuff is amazing

Amazing video! The "perfect storm" portion w/ the 100ft waves almost made me piss my pants! We grieve for the lost airman. May the memories of him be a comfort & a blessing.

I looove the picture presenting the video. If I'm not wrong it's a Rafale (french fighter jet), my favorite plane! Great to see planes from other nationality than the US on this channel, they are great but it's cool to change ( particularly for french airplanes ;) )

I love this content. Thank you for making it.

Fantastic video. Informative and entertaining. Best yet I think

Incidentally, helicopter autorotation isn't automatic. It requires special control settings, and you have only a couple of seconds to set them after an engine failure.

These dry jokes are the reason I breathe

The amount of sus jokes in this video is astounding…. I have no problems with it

Aerial refuelling which Tom Clancy describes as "intercourse" between two airplanes at 35,000 feet

R.I.P to Sargeant Arden Rick Smith

In the four years I've been in my squadron, two of our jets have only caught two baskets when refueling midair. That basket was clean yanked out both times. One from some AF refueler and another from our wing's tanker squadron. For the tanker squadron, I guess the AD's didn't check those lines well and caused that mishap.

Air to air refuelling, its been described by some RAF pilots as 'attempting to thread wet spaghetti up a cats arse' Vulcan Pilots discontinued mid air refuelling purely because it was too dangerous. But then the Falklands War kicked off and all these skills had to be hurriedly re-learned and the Vulcans had their refuelling systems re-installed. All within about 2 weeks. No pressure!

That crash between the KC130J and the F35B were both USMC aircraft, not USAF.

"I'm thirsty, please give me a sip".

Love the content bro

Nicely done

While on the Nimitz off Iran during the Iranian hostage boondoggle, I was flying in Lockeed S-3 Vikings. Because we had a much higher carrier landing weight performance, we were utilized to download excess fuel off the duty tanker in order to conserve the fuel that would otherwise have to be dumped. On one evolution, we exceeded the capture speed and caused a sine wave (like the one shown). We had a solid capture but the sine wave came down the hose and it ripped the “basket” from the hose with the basket still connected to our refueling probe, which bent the probe pipe straight up. The KA-7 tanker had to make an immediate trap after the fuel finished draining from the “buddy pack”. We then trapped with the evidence clearly wrapped around our refueling probe. On another incident (same deployment) the bow wave of the S-3 caused the basket to deflect above the aircraft and then came down on the system operator’s canopy (directly behind the pilot’s canopy) crashing through it. That basket may look small, but it is about 2 - 3 feet long and is made out of metal slats with steel cables to absorb the stress put on them by air refueling exercises. Fortunately, they landed safely and the operator’s only injury was to his flight suit. Long hours of tedium, punctuated by moments of stark terror.

Excellent and interesting video.

That had to be the greatest transition into a mobile game ad, and I was so happy when it wasn't that one that we all know and hate

"that stallion way never boink again, but you can!" got me

As a boom operator on a Kc-135, that E3 video is pantshitting levels of scary.

God bless these brave people and the families of those who lost their lives.

Just amazing How Pilots are brave just to try do it midair.. congratulations boys and girls

5:00 fantastic editing.

Thanks for converting to metric, i really appreciated

Your longer videos is the bomb

Man that was a nice the first out to show is, the f-111 aardvark always did like see that jet fly.

I hate getting disturbed by Kingdom Maker ad while refueling my helicopter in mid-air

I hate to admit it but once i accidentally left my car running while refueling shockingly nothing happened except for the crippling disappointment in myself

good job with the commercial intro

Gotta love the KC-130

The last one, the helicopter was piloted by an air national guards woman who had been to Afghanistan as a dust off pilot. She wrote a book called Shoot Like A Girl. It has that experience in it and she is insane

Damn it’s incredible how talented some of these pilots are.

Awesome!

damn I love this channel

I appreciate the feet and F° translation

use of cellular phones during refueling can ignite fuel vapors with an electrical discharge. This is commonly due to static electricity and not because of a faulty device, as most phones, especially phone cases, can produce a lot during handling.

I'm happy the pilots were still able to say "Flee land!".

Dude, your graphic at the 1:07 mark...lol That's a picture of an F-16 aircraft, which can aerial refuel, but does NOT have a probe that sticks out from the nose. It has a door that opens up behind the cockpit, centered on the fuselage.

that ww1 plane collision was the funniest cartoon like thing ive seen this week

The men and helicopter from the doomed rescue mission were from the 106th Aerospace Rescue and Rescovery Squadron (A.R.R.S.), based out of Gabreski Airfield, here on Long Island, NYS. The call sign "Jolly 110" is a reference to the early days of this rescue unit, when they flew the HH-3C, known as the Jolly Green Giant. The HH-60G Pavehawk is a fine aircraft, but it is not suited to rescue missions in such severe weather. Even the aircraft I use to work on (MH-53H Pavelow III), while much larger, and thus, much more stable in flight, would have had a hard time in such extreme conditions. GOD rest Pararescueman, Technical Sergeant Smith

Thank you for using the Metric system

A slight nitpick, in the 2020 incident it was 2 marine aircraft, the kc-130 from vmgr-352 and the f-35b from vmfa-121.

1:14 I’m not saying conclusively that that didn’t happen, but the horizon stayed consistent for the whole time until the E3 dived down. If the bottom of the refueller was pushed up by the bow wave of the E3 then you would expect the refueller to nose down which would mean we would see more sky. But instead the horizon stayed the same which just makes me think this was human error with pilot induced oscillation.

So sad regarding the PJ’s and crew on the HH-60G. “That Others May Live.”

This ended on such a sad note RIP Also, two questions: 1 Did they make the decision to ditch the heli later when they still had 20min of fuel left, or did they physically ditch the heli even though it had 20min worth of fuel? If the latter, how come? 2 What is/are the correct actions to take in the case that a fire starts when refuelling your car? Keep the nozzle in? Fire exstinguisher? Or just run for your life?

All videos are informative, but in the ending of this, may the guy rest in peace.

It should be remember that the TAMAROA put itself in extreme danger to make those rescues. She got laid over on her beam ends more than once during both the transit and the rescue. Every man who went topside to effect the rescue was a volunteer. There was no shortage of volunteers that night.

I'm in the squadron that had the KC-130 crash in Thermal. They cut off the tail of the aircraft and it's on display in the parking lot.

That KC-130J incident involved an F-35B of the Marines

Hilarious commentary!

I've never thought about this now I'm high asl watching this Edited: this gotta b one of the zestiest yet informative vids yet🤣🤣🤣

I had the opportunity to watch that air to air refuelling, and it is very stressful on the pilots, even in smooth clear weather. Would hate to think of doing it at night, in a storm, as even in the smooth air the new pilots took a few attempts to connect, and the one finally did so, but was not watching his relative velocity, so drifted to in front of the tanker. Corrected with full speed brakes, and in the tanker we all had a jolt as that pipe disconnected. The valves are not meant to close so abruptly, so the aircraft was gently banking away, nicely shiny and with a instant full wash in jet fuel, to go get into the correct envelope to do an in flight restart, because that sudden blast of fuel had flamed his engine out nicely. 10 minutes later he came back up, connected correctly, got his positioning right, and got his remaining fuel pumped in in just under a minute. You only need a minute or so to fill up, those pumps move the 2000 US gallons needed to fill you at a pretty high pressure.

that boink clip etc was funny af,and you have 3,god help them haha

Rest In Peace to PJ Arden Rick Smith

This channel: 20% actual facts 30% memes 50% not what you think

That was actually EXACTLY what i thought happened to the fueless chopper in a hurricane. But ill let you have this one... lol

Never mess with the HOSE!

Rest in Peace PJ

Autorotate a 40K lbs. Helicopter? Had a crew chief in Corps explain autorotation after the pilot left the room. Gunny: "Look straight down." Marine: "Why Gunny?" Gunny: "Because that's the scene of the crash, and we're gonna be the first ones there."

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The last part was sad 😞

I wish I could subscribe more than once 😩

One of my questions

Major Buscemi is looking pretty stoic @6:48

Helpful 🙏😊

Port and starboard are boat references. When does a plane sail into port?

Got to love the dad jokes 🤣

This was pretty weird as you used metric and imperial system, nice work for the representativeness in your vids

Wasn’t the marine corps the ones flying the 130&35 when they collided. The A refuels via a boom.

Always annoys me... "You must turn off your car while refueling" - It's a friggin DIESEL! It's fuel won't catch fire at room temperature! :(

It was a long rd to get us to where we are w/ aerial refueling. It is a very dangerous thing to do.

What is the plane on the cover of the video?

Cool!!

“When aerial refuelling goes wrong” It can be way worse than it is.

Next time, just fit long fuel line like a mile long for refueling with ease and little to no danger. Plus bring fire extinguisher line near it.

Been wondering all along air refueling is a task pilots wished it'd disappear since it looks boring & dangerous. Now that I've seen this vid, kinda breaks down one's morale in becoming a pilot. The next vid must be one to boost morale to become a pilot

Pilots require a lot of skill and patience to get this stuff right.

You've been messing with us lately NWYT

Watching this as someone who actually tests the refuelling pods 😄