For actually funny aerial refueling erotica, check out the opening credits of "Dr Strangelove, or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb." Of course, that film had the genius of Stanley Kubrick working in its favor.
"Putting it in the basket" would seem to have heterosexual double-entendre potential, but gay? Only if you're predisposed to think of that sort of thing. As Seinfeld said,"Not that there's anything wrong with that..."
Plus, now that I'm a "plugger" too, I've got to stand up for the practice.