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A rare sight in the skies over San Antonio this demo featured a C-17 Globemaster III and a KC-135 Stratotanker performing a ...
The Boeing KC-135, nicknamed Stratotanker is an aerial refueling aircraft that has been in continuous service with the USAF for over 60 years with over 800 examples of the C-135 series built. The ...
KC-135 Caught Refueling C-5 Galaxy in Mid-Air in Google Earth! June 25, 2006. Yesterday, ... Don’t tell me it isn’t fake. I flew C5 Galaxies for 25 years. The markings, ...
The mainstay of the U.S. Air Force’s strategic aerial refueling fleet, the KC-135 Stratotanker is a military version of the 1950s-era 707 commercial passenger jet.
KC-135 The KC-135 Stratotanker's primary mission is to refuel long-range bombers. It also provides aerial refueling support to Air Force, Navy, Marine Corps and allied aircraft. Four turbojets ...
DBJ reporter goes on flight with U.S. Air Force for a refueling mission where a KC-135 Stratotanker fills up a C-17 Globemaster. ... Inside a KC-135 Stratotanker as it refuels a C-17. 1 of 21.
Boeing’s KC-135 Stratotanker is an aerial refueling aircraft that provides core aerial refueling capability for the U.S. Air Force and has excelled in this role for more than 60 years.
The crowds then lined the Pease runways to salute the KC-135 as it made a final pass with its refueling boom extended. Pease will receive its first new KC-46A later this year.
Almost 70 years after the type’s first flight, the KC-135 Stratotanker remains the U.S. Air Force’s primary and most numerous aerial refueling aircraft. Now supplemented by the KC-46A Home ...
An F-16 Fighting Falcon, assigned to the 64th Aggressor Squadron, conducts air-to-air refueling with a KC-135 Stratotanker during U.S. Air Force Weapons School Integration at Nellis Air Force Base ...
Air refueling tankers have operated out of Manas since 2001 in support of the air war over Afghanistan. The KC-135 has been in service since the late 1950s and is among the oldest U.S. Air Force ...