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US Air Force celebrates 70th anniversary of one of its most important aircraft
The KC-135 Stratotanker, which has been in service since 1957, refuels America’s bombers, carries cargo, and even ...
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US military plane KC‑135 Stratotanker sends emergency signal near Qatar. Here's what happened
A KC-135 Stratotanker operated by the United States Air Force declared an in-flight emergency while flying near Qatar on Tuesday, according to Iranian media reports and flight-tracking data, sparking ...
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 ...
The KC-135 made its debut on Aug. 31, 1956, and still remains vital even as the Air Force continues to modernize its air ...
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) ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Rockwell Collins prevails over six other bids to provide new COTS SATCOM solution for KC-135. Inmarsat SATCOM equipment on the KC-135 Stratotanker will be replaced by Collins Aerospace under a $27 ...
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, ...
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