Cockpit view: F/A-18F Super Hornet Refuels from another Super Hornet

June 10, 2012 Military Aviation
David Cenciotti

This video provides a different point of view: this is what refueling your F/A-18F Super Hornet from another “Rhino” (as the SH is dubbed in the naval aviation “slang”) looks like.

The buddy refueler in the video is an F/A-18E in a “five wet” configuration, that is to say it carries five external fuel tanks.

Notice how many corrections are required to eventually plug the probe into the basket.

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David Cenciotti is a journalist based in Rome, Italy. He is the Founder and Editor of “The Aviationist”, one of the world’s most famous and read military aviation blogs. Since 1996, he has written for major worldwide magazines, including Air Forces Monthly, Combat Aircraft, and many others, covering aviation, defense, war, industry, intelligence, crime and cyberwar. He has reported from the U.S., Europe, Australia and Syria, and flown several combat planes with different air forces. He is a former 2nd Lt. of the Italian Air Force, a private pilot and a graduate in Computer Engineering. He has written five books and contributed to many more ones.

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6 Comments

  2. That’s interesting to watch. I’ll bet the pilot made it look a lot easier than it really is.

  3. The use of the Super Hornet as a tanker is a bit silly considering the aircraft itself has a relatively limited range and endurance…

    Frankly, retiring the KA-6 and then the S-3 tankers in favor of the tanker-configured Super Hornet wasnt the Navy’s brightest idea. I think the consolidation of the US Naval Aviation went a bit too far…

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