That must of been a Chinook, the tandem rotor blades would be a dead giveaway. I didn't know they could refuel in flight. When I was in the Army at Ft. Rucker, Alabama at ATC school I use to go and study at a lake. It was quiet and they had benches and nobody would be around on a weekday to bother you. Here's a bit of Army training inside info. I had a lot of incentive because if you flunk out of ATC school, you go to door gunner school. It's the physical, we had a class II and door gunner's have a class III, so we qualify. Just like helicopter pilots who have a class I physical and flunk out, usually because they can't solo in 16 hours, they then go to ATC School. As it turned out, I was honor graduate in a class of 24 and made grade E-4.
I'm sitting on this bench and the world is quiet and suddently a Chinook helicopter, in the Army they are a CH-47, lands in the lake. He made touch and go landings all morning in that lake, I would of never believed it. I found out if they had a certain amount of fuel and had the back ramp door closed, they can land on water.
