First phase of funded study provides key insights for full large aircraft and boom automation MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Reliable Robotics, a leader in safety-enhancing aircraft ...

Boston-based Merlin Labs, Inc. said on May 30 that it is using data from flights of a KC-135 at MacDill AFB, Fla., “to better understand crew workload drivers and gather data to expand the autonomous ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Jim Clash writes about extreme adventure and classic rock. Being a longtime space buff, I know about the KC-135. In the day, it ...

[Music] hello everyone and welcome back to the fluctus channel aerial refueling is so common that one would think this is an easy process in fact refueling aircraft in flight takes a lot of skill and ...

MARCH AIR RESERVE BASE, Calif. (Tribune News Service) — Marlo Fleck might be the world’s most highly trained gas station attendant. That’s how Fleck, a 37-year-old U.S Air Force Reserve major, ...

The Stealth F-117s were late and more than 180 miles away. There was little for the crew of the KC-135 refueling jet to do but maintain their holding pattern over southern Idaho and scan the horizon.

A KC-46 Pegasus refuels an F-16 at night, as seen through the updated version of the Remote Vision System, or RVS 2.0. (Boeing) The KC-46 Pegasus refueling tanker’s troubled remote vision system is ...

A KC-46 Pegasus refuels an F-16 at night, as seen through the updated version of the Remote Vision System, or RVS 2.0. (Boeing) The KC-46 Pegasus refueling tanker’s troubled remote vision system is ...

OVER EASTERN INTERIOR ALASKA — On a July morning, Airman 1st Class Tylar Hoffert stared down at the glaciated mountains near Paxson from a narrow window at the back of a military fuel plane. Lying ...