As a space buff, I knew the KC-135 was used to train astronauts for weightlessness. But its main mission is USAF aircraft ...

As prep for a Kansas trip to participate in a KC-135 mid-air refueling, we thought it would be interesting to revisit other ...

He leaves behind a legacy as the last F-16 Fighter pilot who flew with the 185th Fighter Wing before the unit’s conversion to aerial refueling over 20 years ago. South Sioux City Good Samaritan ...

The KC-46s belongs to the 931st Air Refueling Wing at McConnell Air Force Base, Kansas, the same unit of the tanker involved ...

In a September 1965 test, a YF-12 successfully launched a quarter-kiloton atomic missile, from an altitude of 75,000 feet at ...

F-16s and other manned aircraft are still needed to find and attack other targets even if the pilots’ radio communications are jammed as pilots can adapt to unexpected situations. There are now ...

In early November, French Rafale jets deployed to Germany, Croatia and Poland, testing NATO’s Agile Combat Employment concept ...

Forest Staggs (Right), 384th Aerial Refueling Squadron KC-135 Stratotanker pilots ... and they clearly have slightly ...

On June 20, 1981, Theresa Claiborne was commissioned as a second lieutenant in the U.S. Air Force. The Air Force’s first Black female pilot, Claiborne would become the first Black woman to command and ...

The following is the Nov. 4, 2024, Congressional Research Service In Focus report, U.S. Air Force Next-Generation Air ...

SIOUX CITY (KTIV) - Iowa Governor Kim Reynolds got a new perspective on the work being done at the 185th Air Refueling Wing ... “To see this F-16 fly in and then this, boom, go out and see ...

The Lockheed Martin F-22 Raptor is a supersonic twin-engine stealth fighter. Designed as an air superiority fighter it has ...