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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 […]

Italian Air Force

"Yes we can": KC-767 refueling another KC-767

March 21, 2012 David Cenciotti

Some of the readers of this blog have noticed that the text “Yes we can”, the catchphrase used by Barack Obama in his concession speech on Jan. 8, 2008, is written on the nose of […]

Aviation

Operation Unified Protector (was Odyssey Dawn) explained (Day 81 – 104)

July 1, 2011 David Cenciotti

Previous debriefings: Archive With the air campaign in Libya in progress for more than 100 days, I think it’s better to give the blog’s reader an extremely quick recap of the main political and military […]

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