Oh my god excuse me while I finish laughing. Good god this is the funniest "chemtrail" plane picture I've seen to date.
I'm sorry, but that's a refueling probe mounted on the wingtip of a KC-135. It's used to refuel US Marine, US Navy, and foreign based planes in
flight. They don't use the fueling boom like the USAF does, because their planes don't require a high flow rate during refueling. They're not
even close on most of the description either. The propellor in front provides power. The "funnel cone on the engine" is part of the exhaust,
it's normal on many engines, and on ALL CFM-56 engines. The black lines are to show different parts of the hose mechanism. The gap (D) is because
this pod was an after production modification that was only done within the last 20 years or so. With the refueling boom, you can only refuel one
type of plane or the other. To refuel anything using the probe system, you have to attach a drogue to the boom, which means that they can't refuel
USAF planes at the same time. With this pod they can. Their "brush like object" is the drogue. It exits the pod on a hose and expands to allow
the drogue to connect and fuel to flow into the receiver.
Here are some pictures:
This is the old system, as you can see it blocks the refueling boom from being used, except for the drogue system.
Again, old system:
Wingtip system, notice how they can now refuel two aircraft at once.
About 45 US Air Force KC-135R Stratotankers are fitted with mk32B wingtip hose and drogue air refuelling pods, which are supplied by Flight
Refuelling Ltd. These are capable of refuelling Navy and NATO aircraft, which use a probe and drogue system instead of a boom and receptacle. The
receiving aircraft approaches the tanker and its probe makes contact with a hose reeled out and trailing from the tanker.
The additional system allows the KC-135R to refuel both probe / drogue and boom / receptacle aircraft on a single mission and to refuel two
probe/drogue aircraft simultaneously.
The installation of wingtip refuelling pods involves a major modification and refit to the entire aircraft, including modifications to the wing and
fuselage fuel tanks, additional fuel control systems and the installation of indicators and circuit breakers on the flight deck.
Inside the refuelling pods, a collapsible funnel-shaped drogue is attached to a hose, which is reeled out to trail behind the wing of the aircraft.
The hose is fitted with a constant tension spring to give stability to the hose while it is extended.
www.airforce-technology.com...
[edit on 5/11/2008 by Zaphod58]
[edit on 5/11/2008 by Zaphod58]