How Jets Refuel on Atlantic Flight -- A B-29 tanker plane with a fuel hose trailing out behind it is abut to make contact with an F-84 jet fighter in practicing the refueling operation being used on today's London-to-New York flight by two single-engine jets. Te jet plane here is one of the two making the flight. In the operation, the jet pilot rams a small boom extending from his wing into the funnel-shaped nozzle at the end of the tanker's hose. September 22, 1950. (Photo by AP Wirephoto).