This idea was proved pre WW2 but for some reason doesn't seem to have been considered for use in extending the range of LRMP aircraft.
What method was used, my reading of it is that the tanker trailed a hose (with a drogue to prevent wild movements) and the receiving aircraft caught this with a...
anti-submarine warfare
cold war
great britain
in-flight refueling
in-flight refueling tanker
interwar period
luftwaffe
maritime patrol
maritime patrol aircraft
pacific ocean theater
raf bomber command
royal air force
tanker aircraft
thirdreich
united states
united states army air corps
united states army air forces
united states navy
v/stol aircraft
world war ii
avia aksiova aircraft industry company
avia aksiova spolecnost pro prumysi letecký
cold war
czecho-slovak republic
czechoslovak socialist republic
czechoslovakia
first czechoslovak republic
interwar period
post-world war i
post-world war ii
protectorate of bohemia and moravia
second czechoslovak republic
škoda works a.s.
thirdreich
world war ii
axis powers
heavy bomber
heinkel
heinkel flugzeugwerke
heinkel-hirth
interwar period
luftwaffe
nazi germany
night fighter
pre-world war ii
reich ministry of armaments and war production
reichsluftfahrtministerium
strategic bomber
thirdreich
weimar republic
world war ii
Ok, in 1940 the war as just started or was about to start (for Italy and Japan) and things were going fairly well. In Germany and Italy airlines and governments started to plan for the expected post-war increase in air traffic, expecially on the Atlantic routes (sound familiar?).
Diffrently...
airliner
axis powers
civil aviation
empire of japan
kingdom of italy
ministry of aeronautics (kingdom of italy)
ministry of communications and transport (japan)
ministry of munitions (empire of japan)
ministry of the air force (kingdom of italy)
nazi germany
reichsluftfahrtministerium
thirdreich
world war ii
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