A former B-2 Spirit stealth bomber pilot who flew a 44-hour mission in 2001 shares what it may have been like for the Airmen who struck Iranian nuclear facilities last weekend.
maximum endurance operations
Project Magellan is the latest maximum endurance operation (MEO), the term for long-haul missions, meant to test Airmen as transport and tanker crews under Air Mobility Command.
A KC-46 touched down at McConnell Air Force Base, Kan., on July 1 after a record 45-hour nonstop flight around the world. The mission, called Project Magellan, saw the two crews aboard test their limits as they refueled Air Force jets around the planet.
Two crews from the 40th Airlift Squadron used external fuel tanks and human performance science to fly a C-130J more than 26 hours from Dyess Air Force Base, Texas, to Guam, then perform missions when they arrived.
An Air Force C-130J crew braved a long flight around half the planet last week as part of an experiment testing how quickly they could respond to a crisis in the Indo-Pacific. Dubbed Hazard Leap, the test kicked off on April 20 when two full ...
