Military Aviation History on MSN
100 years of in-flight refueling – how pilots learned to stay aloft forever
What began as a risky stunt in the 1920s became one of aviation’s most important breakthroughs. In-flight refueling turned ...
Commercial aircraft, in lots of ways, are the typically slower and more practical relatives of military aircraft. The U.S. Air Force's fighter jets, for instance, are often armed with an array of ...
The Brazilian air force (FAB), Embraer and Saab have completed a certification flight-test campaign to clear the Gripen E for in-flight refuelling operations with the KC-390 tanker. Named Operation ...
Deployed Eurofighter Typhoons from the UK Royal Air Force (RAF) have for the first time undergone air-to-air refuelling behind a German-operated Airbus Defence & Space A400M tactical transport, during ...
The test is aimed at expanding the refueling envelope of the A400M to refuel a wide variety of NATO aircraft, and follows the first ever refueling of a V-22 in early 2025. A German Air Force ...
AayulSAT targets a year-long mission to test propane-based refuelling in low Earth orbit, extending satellite lifespans and ...
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