There are times when you're sitting in a best-in-the-sky Boeing 747 waiting on the tarmac, with nothing to do but watch another 747 in the distance get filled with fuel. A fueling truck slides up ...

Mounted in pairs under the wings, each engine could provide more ... toward Mach 2, raw fuel was injected into the engine exhaust, providing a powerful boost. This afterburner system was similar ...

Two high-bypass turbofans, mounted under 34-degree swept wings, power the KC-46A to takeoff at gross weights up to 415,000 pounds. Nearly all internal fuel can be pumped through the boom ...