The KC-135 Stratotanker, which has been in service since 1957, refuels America’s bombers, carries cargo, and even ...

Every time a B-52 Stratofortress thunders toward a target thousands of miles from the nearest friendly airfield, or a B-2 ...

Boeing continues to provide recurring engineering services for the KC-135 Stratotanker. Boeing has obtained a $14.51 million contract modification from the US Air Force Life Cycle Management Center to ...

A KC-135 Stratotanker from Royal Air Force Mildenhall, England, refuels a pair of F-16 Fighting Falcons in flight. The first U.S. Air Force KC-135 aerial refueling airplane being rolled out from the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. All six crew members were killed when a US Air Force refueling aircraft crashed in Iraq on Thursday, US Central Command announced ...

Calls for a specific squawk code to be designated for gliders have emerged after a USAF KC-135 Stratotanker came within 15 metres of colliding with a glider over Eastern England. On Apr. 8, 2025, a KC ...

A crazy cool video shows something you don’t see too often: a KC-135 tanker in the famous “Mach Loop” low flying area. Certain scarcely populated areas of the UK, known as ‘Low Flying Areas’ (LFAs) ...

There is no doubt about the fact the KC-135 Stratotanker is one capable flying machine, but no one can really say this flying gas station is a mean-looking (or mean-acting) beast. Yet, this is exactly ...

The U.S. Air Force (USAF) has made a habit of releasing with regularity images of its machines in action. It does so, probably, for two reasons. First, spectacular images have a great chance of ...

The KC-135 Stratotanker has been in service since 1954. Using computation fluid dynamics, the Air Force discovered it can improve the plane’s aerodynamic efficiency by one percent simply by changing ...

A KC-135 Stratotanker made a precautionary landing Wednesday at Kadena Air Base on Okinawa, according to a local media report. The aerial refueler landed at 2:47 p.m., the Okinawa Times reported, ...