Midair refueling is pretty standard business these days, but like all the other milestones in flight history, someone had to ...

Aerial refueling is actually a patented innovation. It all began in 1921, as an invention by U.S. War Department engineer Alexander de Seversky. It's now practiced by air forces around the world ...

Aerial refueling could keep drones such as the NASA's Global Hawk airborne for up to a week. Now two drones have taken a record-setting step toward that future by flying as close as 40 feet apart ...

The skies over American cities will be filled with Air Force tanker aircraft on Tuesday to mark the 100th anniversary of the first in-flight aerial refueling in U.S. military history. More than ...

YOKOTA AIR BASE, Japan — A U.S. Air Force KC-46A Pegasus aerial refueling aircraft landed safely at this airlift hub in western Tokyo after declaring an in-flight emergency Tuesday, an Air Force ...

The Marine Corps expects to have its V-22 Aerial Refueling System (VARS) ready for early F-35B operations despite a one-year delay in securing funding, the Marines’ top aviator told USNI News.

The YU-20, the latest large tanker aircraft of the Chinese People's Liberation Army (PLA) Air Force, recently hosted aerial refueling exercises for the J-10 fighter jet in a move experts said ...

A total of 27 PLA aircrafts, including two KJ-500 early warning aircrafts, a Y-9 electronic warfare aircraft, five H-6 bombers, a Y-20 aerial refueling aircraft, six J-10 fighter jets, four J-11 ...