Combat Aviator on MSN
Global reach: KC-135 Stratotanker's enduring legacy & future
Few aircraft in history have contributed as profoundly to American military power — and remained as invisible to the public eye — as the KC-135 Stratotanker. While fighters and bombers grab headlines, ...
A U.S. Air Force Boeing KC-135R Stratotanker made an emergency diversion to Royal Air Force (RAF) Mildenhall on Monday morning after declaring an in-flight emergency while cruising over French ...
The veteran tanker being pressed into service that may last a century.
Some of the KC-135s damaged during the opening weeks of Operation Epic Fury are still in depots to fix their significant damage.
Why the Pegasus doesn't roam very far... yet.
An F-15EX Eagle II (center) and two F-15E Strike Eagles from the USAF's 85th Test and Evaluation Squadron flying alongside a KC-135 Stratotanker tanker over the Pacific Ocean (Photo: U.S. Air Force).
The California Science Center will show Endeavour in launch position for the first time on Nov. 13, and the effort behind it ...
A contract notice, first reported on by Aviation Week, was released seeking industry interest for the reactivation and ...
Today, the U.S. Air Force notified Congress that Key Field in Meridian has been selected as one of four preferred locations to be the future home of the new KC-46 aircraft. In response, U.S. Senators ...
The first service member deaths in the war came on March 1, when six Army Reserve troops were killed in an Iranian strike on ...
In 1955, spectators of a hydroplane race on Lake Washington in Seattle were treated to an unexpected thrill when Boeing's prototype 707 went inverted.
Some results have been hidden because they may be inaccessible to you
Show inaccessible results