KC-135 Battles Storms And Icing To Refuel Thunderbirds F-16s In Midair
As a space buff, I knew the KC-135 was used to train astronauts for weightlessness. But its main mission is USAF aircraft ...
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A view from inside: Mid-air refueling with the Alaska Air National Guard
Sit inside the cockpit of an Alaska Air National Guard C-17 cargo jet as it links up with a KC-135 Stratotanker out of Eielson Air Force Base to take on fuel mid-air. Inside the Gates ... connects and ...
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56 ARS keeps the Blue Angels soaring
Airmen from the 56th Air Refueling Squadron operated multiple KC-46 Pegasus aircraft to refuel the U.S. Navy Blue Angels’ F/A ...
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'Stealth Tankers' What the F-22 and F-35 Would Love and China Would Freak
Lockheed Martin’s Skunk Works has revealed concept imagery for the KC-Z, a next-generation stealth aerial refueling tanker ...
US Air Force Secretary: Next-Generation Aerial Refueling System May Be Unaffordable
T he United States Air Force has rung the all-too-familiar warning bell that the Air Force's planned Next-Generation Aerial ...
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Next-gen stealth tanker may be unaffordable, Air Force secretary fears
A bow wave of modernizations — including the Air Force's desire to build a sixth-gen fighter and drone wingmen — has ...
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Skunk Works’ Latest Stealthy Tanker Concept Revealed
A mid-air refueling capable KC-135RT about to link up with a regular KC-135 tanker. USAF The War Zone has been highlighting the increasingly critical need for stealthy or otherwise more survivable ...
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High school students visit 171st Air Refueling Wing
PITTSBURGH (KDKA) -- The 171st Air Refueling Wing is trying to find new ways to recruit, so they invited more than 500 high school students to the base Wednesday to learn about opportunities in ...