Nearly all internal fuel can be pumped through the flying boom, the KC-135's primary fuel transfer method. One crewmember, known as the boom operator, is stationed in the rear of the plane and ...

The Air Force may have to keep its aging KC-135 tankers flying beyond their planned 2050 retirement, depending on how many ...

Now, I don't think I could have picked a better aircraft," he said. "I’ve been flying the KC-135 since 2006, and I don't want to do anything else," Gould said. "This particular aircraft is ...

These aircraft are conversions of the civilian DC-10 passenger airliner, developed to meet a demand for a platform with greater capabilities than the KC-135. The KC-10 typically operates as a ...

That visit, alongside my meetings with Israeli and British security forces – some of which, for obvious reasons, I can’t ...

The F-16 has completed the test phase for the integration of the AN/ALQ-167 Angry Kitten electronic warfare pod, as the USAF considers the platform for other aircraft types like the C-130, KC-135 ...

U.S. Air Force plans have called for moving four more KC-135 tankers by the end of September to Eielson AFB, Alaska under the 168th Wing, and a service ...