I like to imagine they were refueling the truck. I wonder if anyone's ever refueled an automobile from a plane in flight.
On this Day 1907 Flt Lt Ted "Teddy" McTedson became the first pilot to carry out Air-to-Ground recharging, his Spitfire had to maintain a speed of 87mph while its USB charging cable was attached to a Landrover Mobile Charging Vehicle for 17hrs at #RAFLuton #AvGeek
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I thought that was a training leash.
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Looking forward to the "Thats not a spitfire" etc etc
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Very risky operation. One mile an hour faster and they’d have both ended up in 1958!
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How many attempts did it take to plug in the USB cable the right way around?
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3 ..... as standard
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It’s was a Lightening connector rather than USB I understand
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So that the current would flow at Mach 2.
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