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by detaro 3379 days ago
From these two threads, it seems like its a combination of flying very close (avoiding wake from the wing tips) and steeply below the tanker:

https://aviation.stackexchange.com/questions/9572/how-do-air...

http://www.airliners.net/forum/viewtopic.php?t=1022271