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

During a commercial airline flight a Navy pilot was seated next to a young mother with a babe in arms. When the baby began crying during the descent for landing, the mother began nursing the infant as ...

Lockheed Martin’s Skunk Works has revealed concept imagery for the KC-Z, a next-generation stealth aerial refueling tanker ...

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

The F-15 Eagle, a fourth-generation fighter first introduced in the 1970s, has been America’s premier air superiority jet, ...

The Navy's X-47B unmanned fighter has hit yet another milestone, successfully refueling in mid-air over the waters off Maryland and Virginia. With every milestone, the X-47B seems just a little ...

US Air Force B-52 planes conduct aerial refueling which helps keep the planes airborne longer and saves time landing and refueling. Following is a transcript of the video. US Air Force B-52 planes ...

The Milwaukee 128th Air Refueling Wing is not getting the new ... version of what the Air National Guard uses to re-fuel jets ...

MOSCOW, November 21. /TASS/. Pilots of MiG-31 interceptor fighters and Su-24 bombers of the Northern Fleet’s air regiment practiced mid-air refueling from an Il-78 aerial refueling tanker in ...

MOSCOW, July 27. /TASS/. The crews of Tupolev Tu-95MS strategic missile-carrying bombers practiced mid-air refueling from an Il-78 aerial refueling tanker during training flights in the skies over ...

The aircraft have been part of the special operations mission since the mid-1980s. They provided critical air refueling to Army and Air Force helicopters during Operation Just Cause in Panama in 1989.

This was the first time Iran had faced a sustained attack by a foreign adversary since the Iran-Iraq War in the 1980s.