Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Air Force Capt. Jordan Wesemann, left, a KC-135 pilot, and his twin brother Capt. Jared Wesemann, who flies F-35s, connected on a ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Business Insider recently interviewed a US Air Force boom operator at a base in England. The boom operator is responsible for ...

Five Russian aircraft were intercepted by the North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD) while flying near the Alaskan coast Thursday. NORAD detected and tracked two Tu-95 bombers, two Su-35 ...

Dec. 4 (UPI) --The U.S. Air Force took delivery of its 99th and 100th KC-46A Pegasus air-refueling tankers at Travis Air Force Base in Fairfield, Calif., on Tuesday. The Pegasus is capable of single- ...

The joint Franco-German C-130J squadron is integrating the air refueling capability, with the Germans refueling the Eurofighter and the French refueling the Mirage 2000 and Rafale aircraft. In a major ...

While much is said about how many fighter jets a country has, those jets have little ability to project power more than a few hundred miles from their forward operating bases without aerial refueling.

The Air Force refueling tanker was flying without its location transponder activated and could not be detected by air traffic control. By Riley Mellen The pilot of a JetBlue flight reported on Friday ...

Thousands of feet up and racing across the sky at hundreds of miles per hour, US Air Force tankers close to within just 12 feet of fighter jets to refuel them in flight, sometimes as little as 8 feet, ...