Gassing Up Some HAWGS!
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 20 ก.ย. 2024
- Welcome to my channel!
My name is Rod Jones. I'm a 5th generation farmer and KC-135 pilot in the Ohio Air National Guard.
I was Active Duty Air Force for 16 years and have been with the Ohio Air National Guard for 4 years.
If you, or anyone you know, may be be interested in military service, please send me an email and I will be happy to offer my thoughts/experiences from the past 20 years.
rod_jones29@yahoo.com
Thanks!
Thanks for sharing! I grew up outside of Fairborn and my first summer job in the early 1970’s was gassing the planes at the Wright-Patterson Aeroclub. My first summer the club was at Wright field and then it was moved into the fighter hangers at the end of the runway at Patterson. I watched the B-52s and 135s launch everyday between chores at the club learning about airplanes. I am greatly enjoying your content.
Thanks! That must've been a pretty cool summer job!
@@ohioflyingfarmer7050 It was two summers and it was the coolest job. I got the job at age 13 because my mother worked at a laboratory on Wright field and she was taking lessons on the dare of the Colonel she worked for. Prior to getting the job, I lived at the museum when it was on Patterson field. So she asked if I could work at the club and I rode with her to and from the base. The A&P put me straight to work and I learned about in detail about what has been a lifelong passion.
I agree with your A-10 comment. They certainly can lay down a lot of hate on the enemy. As a vet from northern Ohio I want to thank you for your service and sharing your experience.
Thank you for your service as well! A-10 is definitely one of my faves!
Awesome. The A-10 is the best. Being a boots on the ground. I have to love the Hog.
Yeah, I would not want to be a bad guy with one of those circling overhead!
@@ohioflyingfarmer7050 I have seen what they can do. You are correct Sir. LOL
Great Beautiful Videos. Thank You and Your Crew.
Those A-10's are bad ass! Thanks for your service!
Yes they are!
Love it!
I was fuel cell on the KC135 at McConnell. I always felt enlisted boom and tank rats were always good friends
Thanks for your service Roland!
I imagine that wasn't the most glorious of jobs, but a ver important one!
Putting faces to the term of Air Force is the best. We need to see the people that take up the challenge and put in the hard work that make up our armed services. I can’t thank you enough for involving everyone in your videos. Getting them to talk and letting us know a little about them. Another good choice of music. Stay safe all of you.
Appreciate it Otto! I'll try to get the crew more involved!
I saw these guys at that Chicago air and water show! The land at Gary airport and I work at the steel mill that’s right north east of the airport!
That's pretty cool!
@@ohioflyingfarmer7050 yeah we got a week long air show as they where practicing over the lake and city!
The level of skill and knowledge you all possess amazes me. Another great video.
Thanks Joe! My job is pretty easy. The guys in back have the hard jobs!
Subway!? We flew with Jimmy Johns.
BTW , nice video gentlemen.
JJ's is good, but not many of them around these parts!
damn look at those beauties...
thanks for your service!
Thanks for watching!
Great color video of A10's refueling.
Thanks!
thanks for your service not only in the military but as a farmer also
Former dairy farmer and retired Navy A-7 pilot. Vietnam era. 29 years active and reserve. Grey card. Are military retired ever allowed to ride along?
Thanks for your service!
I'm not sure about the other branches, but the USAF has a program called "Space-A", which stands for space available.
Essentially, if we are going on a trip, current and retired military may ride along free of charge, as long as there is space available.
Being retired, you and your spouse can travel the world on military aircraft free of charge.
As for our local training sorties, usually not.
We have certain restrictions, that are not conducive to training, when passengers are on board.
@@ohioflyingfarmer7050 thanks. As an A-7 driver we didn’t need gas as often as other tactical a/c. Could fly 2.7 hours depending on the profile. A-7 pretty easy to plug in smooth air, day or night. The A-7 was occasionally used as a tanker off an aircraft carrier buy adding the drogue package (buddy store) plus a fuel tank on the other wing but other a/c (particularly F-4s) didn’t like plugging into a smaller jet.
What a great video - this definitely got me to SMASH the subscribe and like buttons! I, for one, would love to see an “extended cut” of this without the #2-4 hawgs sped up. I love every bit of watching #1 and would be ecstatic to see the others in real time. Thanks for posting!
Thanks Josh!
We refuel A10s quite often. I'll get some more footage just for you!
@@ohioflyingfarmer7050 Please!!! We "fly" the DCS world version of this bird as desk bound nerds. Watching this vid actually made me feel better. I approach the tanker just like that first bird, and thought I was a really poor student.
What exactly is DCS?
@@ohioflyingfarmer7050 DCS is an acronym for “Digital Combat Simulator” - it is a pretty thorough simulation of a multitude of modern and historical aircraft which players can fly in different simulated eras and locations. You can divide it into WWII, Cold War, and modern. It runs on Windows machines and people like myself and Brrt Nerd organize sorties and fly online together. Its as close as guys like him and I will ever get to flying an actual combat aircraft. Sometimes we take it WAY too seriously.
AAR is a notoriously difficult right-of-passage for DCS pilots - and watching this video did indeed hit home. I can’t tell you how many times I had left a tanker with not enough fuel, but plenty of stress-induced carpal tunnel from gripping the damn stick too hard.
Also, I’m pretty certain I saw that 4-ship down in Chicago early 2022. I live in the suburbs and we were downtown during their practice day. We were driving up Lake Shore Drive watching a multitude of different jets flying over the lake when all of the sudden my wife shouts out, “Look - a Warthog!!”. And I’ll be damned if she didn’t see them before I did.
So proud of her ;)
Josh you NAILED it; That video was so good that I could have watched those A-10s belly-up to the flying gas tank all day. Honestly, I would have watched all of the other stuff during fast-forward, too. Excellent Audio and Video. Loved the way he teased his co-pilot about his lunch. It was like it was the 80s again with simpler times.
Seeing you guys feed those Hawgs reminds me of a scene from the original book version of Tom Clancy's "The Hunt for Red October", where KC-135s refuel some ANG Hawgs on their way to rattle the hell out of a Soviet Navy task force off the US East Coast...
The A-10 is a mean machine for sure!
Maryland Hawgs! Thats where i’m at. 175th!
Thanks for the ride! It’s absolutely amazing, have a great day crew!
Great video says your mom!!😉 Love the music!
Thanks for bringing this to us, incredible footage and very interesting. Great job, thanks to you, your crew and the Hawg pilots for your service!
You're welcome!
Sure would love to strap a Hawg on and play for an hour or so. Enjoyed the video Col. 🛬🛬🛬
Thanks Tom!
I almost tried for A-10s out of pilot training, but they didn't have Hawgs in Ohio, which is why i chose tankers.
Do you tell the crew that you are refueling that you are recording for TH-cam’s?
Sure do ol bud!
So Rod I'm watching your cool video and around 6:50 I hear something familiar but I'm not paying very close attention but then at 7:40 I hear it again and thought shit that sounded like my voice and tail number😀 And then I remembered I was flying from Ohio to Rhode Island and getting close to the Duke MOA when the controller told me about you and the 4 A10's. I had my camera ready but unfortunately never saw you guys. Thanks for the great videos!!!
I think I remember hearing you on the radio!
@@ohioflyingfarmer7050 I thought about deviating for a bit to the north to have a better chance seeing you guys but I was running behind already!!!
Bring back the Cold War when in the UK at Woodbridge and Bentwaters we had 6 squadrons of A-10s to admire.
That's a whole lot of firepower!
Thanks for sharing
When I was in the military I loved hearing them coming in firing the gun. You knew you had an angle looking out for you. The other guys didn’t like it to much. Great video.
Yeah, I would not want to be a bad guy on the ground with those things above me!
I loved the A10. I took a pic with my Kodak 110 back in 1980 from the 33rd bomb dump. The plane was so low crossing over us heading back to the test wing. I used to see pairs come in from the gulf and as soon as they hit the beach they would swing in opposite directions. That lane just looks like it would be a ton of fun to fly.
Yeah, they are slow, but that is on purpose!
Deadliest aircraft in our arsenal for sure!
Another great one buddy. A10s are bad ass, even more so in real life. Thanks for taking us along.
Yeah, they are MEAN airplanes!
Proud of you all! Thumbs up for the Hawg driver’s👍
Thanks Michael!
Love those Hog's, is the boomer an enlisted person?
Yes, all boom operators are enlisted.
I live right down the street from the Warthogs. See them every day going to and from work.
Awesome! So you're from Baltimore, or one of the other HAWG bases?
@@ohioflyingfarmer7050 I grew up just south of Baltimore. Little town called Linthicum Heights. I was in the Navy early in the 70's. I was a flapjack king. For 43 yrs I was a local owner operator truck driver. Used to go on the MANG base in Middle River to make
deliveries. I am now retired.
Good show as always!
Thanks Jeff!
no pickup trucks and trailers where sunk in the making of this video,thats what brian said.
Ha! Yeah, pickups in a pond are one thing, airplanes submerged in water are another!
Thanks for watching!
Yet another incredible video! The comms between you while fueling was really cool. I watched the B2's fly right over my house here in Fairborn last week. If it's ok with you I'm going to share a screenshot of your video to my Fakebook with a link to your channel in hopes it gains you at least a few more subscribers. Thanks for bringing us along with you guys and I'll see you in the next one.
Thanks Kevin! I'm trying to get a little better each video. One of these days, I'll figure it out!
Wow nice video!!
When is harvest time on your farm?
Enjoy each and every one of your videos! Thank you!
We hope to be harvesting in about a month. Beans are just now starting to turn.
FNG 🤣🤣🤣 👍🏼
Ha! We've got a lot of those right now!
Was great to see the hogs. Was a load toad on them back in the 90s out of dmafb oson Korea then in Germany. Kind of miss loading the big burrrt special. Brought back a lot of good memories thanks
Glad you enjoyed it!
Thanks for your service!
Cool suggestion by the TH-cam gods. I'm an A-10 Crew Chief out of Ft Wayne and have ridden plenty of tankers and watched this live a couple of times, but this was still very cool. I was wondering if the Baltimore Hawgs were heading to Chicago since they each had two travel pods. My weekender ACC got to work on these at Gary where he works civilian. Oh, and Crew Chief shenanigans...it's all part of being one. ;)
Thanks for your service! We refuel the Ft. Wayne guys quite often!
@@ohioflyingfarmer7050 Thank you for yours sir!
What does it mean when you ask for the “option”?
Great question!
It means we have the option to make a low approach or do a touch and go.
I’m guessing the touch and go is for practice then.
Never get bored of watching these takes such great skill fro all the pilots and crew to do such thing. What kind of air speed are you doing these refuels at ?
I'd rather not get into specifics regarding airspeeds for security reasons, but I'll tell you we have to slow way down for A-10s.
That is just amazing to see how that works. Do you do any night refueling? Carl
Hey Carl!
Yeah, we do some refueling at night. When the days get shorter this fall/winter, I should have some night footage.
Is there a certain plane that is a pain in the ass to refuel or one that make you nervous?
Not really, but some receiver pilots are better than others!
A-10 is also my favorite aircraft it’s so awesome such a great machine and that cannon just wow they said on a documentary that plane put the fear of god in the enemy when it was on mission lol I’d love to see one operate but not in real action lol thanks for sharing buddy always a great video
Yeah, I've heard they started with the 30MM cannon, then built the airplane around it!
@@ohioflyingfarmer7050 right I think that’s what they said on the doc too just awesome
That's pretty cool but I think I will keep my feet on the ground I have never been on a plane before
You need to try it ol bud!
FNG messing up or gettin reps?! Lol
Ha! No, he did fine. Just letting him get some practice in!
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Friendly new guy got better on his third try, lol.
If you're talking about the third landing, I think that one was mine!
@@ohioflyingfarmer7050 Then don't tell him what I said. Don't wanna crush his confidence completely,
First. As if it matters.lol
Heck yeah it matters!