No matter where you're going, commercial flights require a lot of fuel. Despite that, refueling in the sky isn't standard ...

Fighter jets (and other aircraft, like helicopters) often have to travel extreme distances, so how do they stay fueled? Easy. They refuel in the air.

Welcome back to The Daily Aviation for a feature on how the US Air Force refuels aircraft mid-flight utilizing the KC-135 ...

Germany Leads EU Uncrewed Refueling, Medevac Effort is published in Aerospace Daily & Defense Report, an Aviation Week ...

Though in-flight refueling might ... the range of an airplane by mid-air refueling became a demonstrated fact.” Today, the military has a fleet of refueling aircraft, including the workhorse ...

The KC-46A Pegasus is the latest Boeing-designed tanker used for mid-air refueling of aircraft ... the risk of scraping the boom on other aircraft mid-flight. The Air Force designated the problem ...

Members of the Pease-based 157th Air Refueling Wing took flight for several hours Tuesday ... flying underneath it — the first instance of mid-air refueling using a gravity-flow hose, according ...

A shot from the refueling system’s camera on the flight engineer ... fuel mid-air during a test to expand the envelope for Germany’s A400M Atlas tactical transport aircraft.

Separately, a Boeing-owned Stingray demonstrator, the “T1” (see Figure 1), conducted its first flight in 2019 and its first mid-air refueling of another aircraft in 2021. The T1 lacked some ...

Refueling operations ... where aircraft stopped their main engines to receive fuel, and reduced their flight time. This afforded the crews an opportunity to rest mid-mission, and effectively ...

The tail section is critical to flight because it provides stability ... The Boeing-made KC-135 is a mid-air refueling aircraft that’s been in service since the late 1950s.