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JohnB: I believe you are mistaken that the F-104 was ever equipped for boom refueling
I never said the F-104 was. My statement was "....but there are exceptions of a few USAF aircraft having probes (including some F-102's, F-104's)" I never said anything about F-104's having a receptacle for a traditional flying boom- but to get technical booms could be equipped with a drogue so: a probe equipped F-104 could receive fuel from a boom equipped tanker if a drogue was mounted to the boom
My point was a few USAF aircraft have had probes to receive from a drogue, but the USAF has generally used the boom/receptacle method.
Correct on the F-102 probe being a scabbed on affair- apparently it was quite noisy and draggy.