The steeply banked go around by a KC-135 at RAF Mildenhall was not just a viral clip of a big jet muscling through the sky.

Capt. Jordan Wesemann, a KC-135 tanker pilot, refueled his twin brother Jared's F-35 fighter jet during an exercise in Japan. Their father is a former Air Force rescue pilot.

The Air Force may have to keep its aging KC-135 tankers flying beyond their planned 2050 retirement, depending on how many new tankers it buys in coming years and whether a next-generation refueling ...

Acceptance of the "airworthiness plan" allows the KC-135 autonomous flight test program to get underway, Merlin said. [Courtesy: U.S. Air Force] The U.S. Air Force has signed off on a plan to put AI ...

UK investigators have underlined the importance of transponders, after a serious airprox incident in which a US Air Force Boeing KC-135 carried out an evasive manoeuvre to avoid an undetected glider.

The 20-year-old exercise saw a series of firsts during its Sentry Aloha 25-1 edition. In fact, the 169th Air Defense Squadron provided a team of Battle Management Operators aboard the KC-135 ...

TYSONS CORNER, VA, April 10, 2017 ” CAE (NYSE: CAE) has secured approval to link its KC-135 Stratotanker simulator to the U.S. Air Force‘s Distributed Training Center Network in efforts to support ...

A USAF KC-135 tanker performed a steeply banked approach into RAF Mildenhall before initiating an unexpected go-around. The ...