Beech Air Refuelling System

[Jemiba]

On http://crimso.msk.ru/Site/Crafts/Craft21722.htm I've found a photo of a flight test during 1961 of a Beech designed
air refuelling system, with an Douglas Invader as a tanker and A MS.760 Paris as receiver. Caption "A new Beech-designed
and built air refuelling system has passed initial evaluation studies by the U.S. Navy. Extension of the system is through
electrical release of the drogue which pulls out a 40-ft. length of flexible hose. This in turn forces out the boom." The source
is said to be Air Pictorial 10/1961. I'm looking now for better photos of the Paris receiver aircraft.

 

[Stargazer]

The Beech hose-and-drogue system was called the Model 1080. You can see it used on both wings of an Imperial Iranian Air Force Boeing 707-3J9C (which already has the tail-boom at the rear).

 

[Jemiba]

Ah, yes, seen that system before. although I didn't realise, that it was from Beech.
Judging the colour scheme of the MS.760, it could be the demonstrator aircraft given
to Beech in 1958 (see below from http://aviationtrivia.blogspot.de/2010/03/in-1950s-armee-de-lair-french-air-force.html).
The refuelling probe seems to have replaced the landing light in the extreme nose. And
the object mounted over the nose ? A cine camera maybe ?

 

[Jemiba]

.. BTW, the CC-137, the Canadian military version of the Boeing 707 is
fitted with Beech 1050 refuelling pods, too.
http://www.rcaf-arc.forces.gc.ca/v2/equip/hst/707-eng.asp

 

[Stargazer]

.. BTW, the CC-137, the Canadian military version of the Boeing 707 is
fitted with Beech 1050 refuelling pods, too.
http://www.rcaf-arc.forces.gc.ca/v2/equip/hst/707-eng.asp

"1050"? A different version, or is it a typo for 1080?

 

[Jemiba]

Have googled for quite a while now, but without success. May just be a typo, of course, but
different versions don't seem to be too implausible to me.
Especially interesting for me, nevertheless, are the modifications to the MS.760 ....