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The History and Progress of Refuelling in Flight

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 July 2016

Alan Cobham and
Marcus Langley
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My experimental work in flight refuelling goes back over a period of ten years, when I became interested in its possibilities as a means of removing the hazard' of a heavily loaded take-off. My idea was that an aircraft should have a normal and safe take-off, and that when it was comfortably in the air, it should receive its load of fuel, thus being given both an extended range and an increased1 pay-load.

In 1932, initial experiments were carried out on two D.H. 9's, and early in 1933, we continued experiments with a D.H.9 and a Handley Page W.iotransport machine.

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The Aeronautical Journal , Volume 44 , Issue 355 , July 1940, pp. 557 - 603
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Copyright © Royal Aeronautical Society 1940

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