Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Photographs show the boom of a KC-46 Pegasus was ripped off during a mishap while refueling F-22 Raptors last week. (Air Force) ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A KC-46A Pegasus connects with an F-15 Strike Eagle for an aerial refueling test over California in 2018. Three of the Air Force’s ...

Thousands of feet up and racing across the sky at hundreds of miles per hour, US Air Force tankers close to within just 12 feet of fighter jets to refuel them in flight, sometimes as little as 8 feet, ...

How long can a fighter jet fly on one tank of fuel? Modern American jets can’t cross the Atlantic without aerial refueling a process jokingly referred to as “mating” because of how close the planes ...

U.S. Air Force Airmen assigned to the 459th Air Refueling Wing, conducted an aerial refueling mission in support of the 4th Fighter Wing on April 22. The mission included preflight preparations, ...

The KC-46A Pegasus tanker aircraft is based on the Boeing 767-200ER and features a fly-by-wire refueling boom, a separate hose and drogue system, and a camera-based remote vision system for the boom ...

Remaining stable enough to allow for the fuel transfer between two aircraft at high speeds in midair can require pinpoint flying, though the process is eased through constant communication. Aerial ...

A rendering shows a KC-Z4 refueling future fighters and collaborative combat aircraft. Credit: JetZero LONG BEACH, California—Blended wing body aircraft startup JetZero recently completed a study on ...

After decades of service, a legendary tanker says farewell. Alan de Herrera A retired KC-10 Extender known as Excalibur awaits a six-day mothballing process at Davis-Monthan Air Force Base in Tucson, ...