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Take A Look At The Crazy Cool Shots Of A Dutch KDC-10 Tanker Refueling Polish F-16s Taken With A Telescope

January 21, 2020 Jacek Siminski

Here are some great aerial refueling shots taken with a telescope. To maintain currency the pilots have to train numerous procedures so that they simply do not forget how to execute them. Aerial refueling is […]

At the Tip of the Spear: Midair Refueling F-35As and F-15Cs With the USAF 514th Air Mobility Wing.

April 12, 2018 Tom Demerly

We Flew a Refueling Mission with the F-35A Joint Strike Fighter and F-15C Eagle. Four miles above the open Atlantic I’m sitting in the cockpit of a KC-10 tanker with a hundred tons of explosive […]

We Encountered The B-2 Stealth Bomber At Night in Stormy Skies To Get These Crazy Cool Photos. Here’s How It Went.

October 9, 2017 Todd Miller

Close Encounter With Two Ghostly B-2 Spirit Stealth Bombers At Night. “It’s go time!” The crew announcement snaps me from my sleep. It’s near zero hundred and we fly in dark skies over western Missouri. […]

This Photo Shows The Damage Caused By A Tanker’s Refueling Boom To The Nose Of An A-10 “Warthog” Aircraft

May 11, 2017 David Cenciotti

No, that’s not a bullet hole. Taken at Moody Air Force Base, Georgia, by U.S. Air Force’s Staff Sgt. Ryan Callaghan, this photo features the A-10C Thunderbolt II aircraft 81-0995 from the 75th Fighter Squadron […]

Marine MV-22 Osprey Tilt-Rotor Aircraft Complete First Pacific Crossing

May 3, 2017 Tom Demerly

Four U.S. Marine Corps MV-22 Ospreys Have Crossed the Pacific for the First Time. A flight of four U.S. Marine Corps MV-22 Osprey tilt rotor aircraft has completed a historic first ever long-range flight across […]