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Originally Posted by Diaphone Jim
VC10: four engines, 10 barndoor flaps, .50 cal nose gun. That's a lot of plane.
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Actually, that's a flight refuelling probe.
The RAF use the 'probe and drogue' method of air-to-air refuelling and the VC10 was capable of receiving, as well as supplying, fuel mid air.
Illustrated here...