"The total included 13 boom contacts and nearly 90,000 pounds of fuel offloaded, providing both aerial refueling training for the RC-135 and E-3 crews." One of Metrea's KC-135Rs in 2020. Hans Jacobs ...

The long-established private aerial refueling services company completed the first aerial refueling of USAF fighters in a potentially precedent-setting exercise. Though Omega Air Inc. has been ...

The U.S. Air Force employed for the first time last month a commercial aerial refueling service to refuel a RC-135 Rivet Joint and E-3 Sentry during exercise Resolute Hunter 23-2. From June 23 through ...

The skies over American cities will be filled with Air Force tanker aircraft on Tuesday to mark the 100th anniversary of the first in-flight aerial refueling in U.S. military history.

In fact, the first air-to-air refueling took place between a pair of De Havilland DH-4B propeller-driven biplanes on June 27, 1923, more than a century ago and only a mere two decades (give or ...

The first aerial refueling took place June 27, 1923, when a hose was passed from one biplane to another, according to the U.S. Air Force. Search Query Show Search. News/Noticias.

This event marks the historic achievement of the first-ever aerial refueling mission, which took place on June 27, 1923, led by 1st Lt. Virgil Hine and 1st Lt. Frank W. Seifert.

FORT WAYNE, Ind. (WANE) Tuesday, June 27 marks the 100th anniversary of what at the time seemed impossible; the first aerial refueling involving two aircraft assigned to what was then known as the ...

A KC-46 tanker lost its boom during an F-22 refueling mission, adding to safety concerns around the aircraft's troubled boom ...

Tankers and F-16s from McConnell Air Force Base in Kansas flew over Denver, Boulder, Fort Collins, Colorado Springs, Pueblo to mark anniversary of aerial refueling. Skip Navigation Share on Facebook ...