You’re flying at hundreds of miles an hour, thousands of feet above the Earth. What would you be doing while two planes are tethered during a refueling run?
You'd be totally serious, during the maneuvers. Or you could take the lead from Senior Airman Jordan Smith, who has a tendency to lighten the mood when he's filling up fighters from his flying gas station in the sky, according to the Defense Department.
Smith is a member of the 380th Air Expeditionary Wing and is a crew member on a KC-10. He’s also known as the crew’s chef or the pizza guy who cooks for his crew while they’re in the air.
Credit: Screengrab: Dvidshub.net
Credit: Screengrab: Dvidshub.net
He will crack jokes or have riddles for the pilots of F-22s as they wait to top off their fuel tanks, according to the Defense Department.
They also talk about what they miss while on deployment, like Chick-fil-A.
Click here to listen to some of the other banter between crew members aboard the two planes.
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