a long rather large diameter hose suddenly floated from the brockhurst along to the lady s. it was quickly manhandled onto the weather deck and connected to a convenient coupling , and within minutes fuel was gushing into lady ss depleted tanks , then a second smaller bore hose quickly followed , and this topped up our aircraft fuel tanks with avcat ( aviation carrier turbine fuel , which is used by gas turbine ( jet ) engined aircraft at sea ) .