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KC-46A Completes Record 24.2-hour Mission: Longest Flight In The History Of AMC

May 10, 2022 Stefano D'Urso

According to the U.S. Air Force, this is the longest flight in the history of the Air Mobility Command. A few days ago, on May 5 and 6, 2022, a KC-46A Pegasus tanker of the […]

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Force Multiplier: We Refuel F-35s, Tornado, Typhoons and Another KC-767 During Mission With Italian Air Force Tanker

April 19, 2021 David Cenciotti

We took part in a mission aboard the Italian Air Force KC-767 and had the opportunity to refuel receivers using different both the “flying boom” and “hose and drogue” systems. The Italian Air Force (Aeronautica […]

Aviation Safety / Air Crashes

Following F-35B, KC-130J Collision Former USMC F-4 Pilot Tells Us About the Risks of Midair Refueling

October 2, 2020 Tom Demerly

We Talk to Retired U.S. Marine Corps Pilot John Trotti About Midair Refueling. “I’m not sure I’d characterize Air-to-Air refueling (AAR) itself as risky. Rather, I always thought of it as requiring strict attention to […]

Military Aviation

An Airbus MRTT Test Aircraft Has Carried Out The World’s First Ever Fully Automatic Refuelling Contacts

April 17, 2020 David Cenciotti

The A330 MRTT will be equipped the first automatic aerial refueling with a boom system. An Airbus MRTT test aircraft has successfully completed the first ever fully Automatic Air-to-Air Refuelling (A3R) operation with a boom […]

Military Aviation

Cockpit view: F/A-18F Super Hornet Refuels from another Super Hornet

June 10, 2012 David Cenciotti

This video provides a different point of view: this is what refueling your F/A-18F Super Hornet from another “Rhino” (as the SH is dubbed in the naval aviation “slang”) looks like. The buddy refueler in […]

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