After decades of service, a legendary tanker says farewell. Alan de Herrera A retired KC-10 Extender known as Excalibur awaits a six-day mothballing process at Davis-Monthan Air Force Base in Tucson, ...

Thousands of feet up and racing across the sky at hundreds of miles per hour, US Air Force tankers close to within just 12 feet of fighter jets to refuel them in flight, sometimes as little as 8 feet, ...

Business Insider recently interviewed a US Air Force boom operator at a base in England. The boom operator is responsible for setting up the midair refueling for a receiving aircraft. They shared how ...