20 hours non-stop

[G-CPTN]

Just pitch up next to the tanker cockpit at Oh-dark-thirty, wait for him to notice you, drift back and follow the traffic lights.

How did the tanker ID you (if you were maintaining radio silence)?

[Fox3WheresMyBanana]

No need.
If you were a bad guy, you'd have already shot him!

He could tell your aircraft type, of course.

And if he had been told to save some for specific mission support, then he would give you what he could. Sometimes you'd see fuel flow stop after 1,500 kgs and get an amber light to pull out. They knew that was what you needed to do another supersonic intercept, then you'd have to try your luck with another tanker after that.

[ian16th]

In the early days when the tankers were anti-flash white Valiant's, we fitted a flashing yellow light to the tail cone and it reflected of the underside of the tailplane.

The story was that the lights were sourced at Halfords!

[Woody]

The world's longest non-stop commercial flight has landed in New York, ending a journey from Singapore of more than 15,000km in 17 hours and 52 minutes.
Singapore Airlines relaunched the service five years after it was cut because it had become too expensive.
Flight SQ22 landed at 0529 US Eastern time with 150 passengers and 17 crew.
Geoffrey Thomas, editor-in-chief of Airlineratings.com, said the time passed swiftly and had not seemed like a 17-and-a-half hour flight.
He told the BBC: "The flight was effortless and very smooth.
"On board the consensus was that the time passed very quickly and didn't seem like 17.5 hours."
The inaugural flight from Changi Airport to Newark's international airport, which services New York, took off amid much fanfare.