Supply chain problems have delayed an effort to redesign the KC-46 tanker’s refueling boom, keeping the plane years away from being able to gas up the entire Air Force inventory. Engineers are ...

A KC-46 tanker lost its boom during an F-22 refueling mission, adding to safety concerns around the aircraft's troubled boom system.

Air Force officials are investigating a mishap that heavily damaged a KC-46 Pegasus tanker plane while it refueled a fighter jet last month, Air Force Times has learned.

The notional concept comes as the U.S. Air Force prepares for an analysis of alternatives for the Next Generation Aerial Refueling System (NGAS). Lockheed Martin’s secretive Skunk Works division ...

CLEVELAND, November 12, 2024--Intelligent power management company Eaton was awarded a $3.5M Air Force Research Lab (AFRL) contract to design a new podded refueling boom, enabling traditional and ...

U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) wrote in January 2022: "Under the Air Force's KC-46 program, Boeing is developing an aerial refueling tanker from a commercial aircraft design.

U.S. Air Force Tech. Sgt. Matthew Blevins, 9th Aerial Refueling Squadron flight engineer, tracks flight data aboard a KC-10 Extender Sept. 13, 2019, above Oregon.

Expensive, bulky, and heavy, the flying boom nonetheless offered the considerable advantage of delivering fuel more quickly and it remains the Air Force’s primary aerial refueling method ...

The world’s skies will be a little less sexy starting next year. The Air Force on Sept. 1, 2024, will retire its fleet of KC-10A Extenders, aerial refuelers that can also transport troops or ...

Intelligent power management company Eaton was awarded a $3.5 M Air Force Research Lab contract to design a new podded refueling boom, enabling traditional and non-traditional tanker aircraft to ...

Intelligent power management company Eaton was awarded a $3.5M Air Force Research Lab (AFRL) contract to design a new podded refueling boom, enabling ...