"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 ...

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.

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.

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 ...

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.

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 ...