During tests in 2013, the Calspan Learjet 25 fitted with a refueling probe and with X-47B's avionics, autonomously connected with a KC-707 tanker as if it were refueling operationally.

Alternatively, probe-drogue refueling (PDR) involves coupling a probe on a receiver aircraft with a probe receptacle (drogue) attached to a flexible, fuel hose from the tanker aircraft. PDR requires ...

The pole in question is a refueling probe that enables the helicopter to top off its fuel from a tanker without landing. Read more: 10 Of The Strangest Military Helicopters Ever Made.

F-35B tail number "BF-17" flew over Edwards AFB recently on a series of trials aimed at testing a new white refueling probe light. The dusk timing, desert locale and the F-35’s metallic skin ...

DARPA), in a joint effort with NASA Dryden Flight Research Center, performed the first-ever autonomous probe-and-drogue airborne refueling operation on August 30, ...

Moog engineers designed and built a 54-ft track, probe cart, and controller to simulate the impact that a jetâ s probe and a tankerâ s drogue experience when coupling for refueling.

The refueling probes are in support of a second V-22 multiyear award from the U.S. Naval Air Systems Command, and follow a memorandum of understanding that was inked last year by Boeing and Cobham.

Private Astroscale probe will refuel Space Force satellites high above Earth on landmark 2026 ... After docking with and refueling a Tetra-5 spacecraft, APS-R will back off, scan for leaks, ...

Whenever a plane or helicopter needs some extra juice to keep flying, it hovers up behind the KC-135 where a boom operator will move the refueling probe into position to refuel. Fueling up for decades ...

This means that the YU-20 likely has a three-point refueling system - two probe-and-drogue refueling pods under the wings and one hose-and-drogue installed at the tail, analysts said.