Dec. 13—Four additional KC-135 Stratotankers, the lynchpins of the U.S. military's aerial refueling operations, have been assigned to Eielson Air Force Base near Fairbanks, and with them around 220 ...
The aircraft were originally expected ... with years of stalling and rejection on the part of the Air Force to deliver vital aerial refueling assets to Alaska and with the state of aerial ...
Merlin will begin that series of basic air refueling operations with reduced crew workloads before eventually reducing the size of the crew itself. The test campaign will be a crucial step toward ...