Strategic Air Command’s first all-woman KC-135 crew, assigned to the 924th Air Refueling Squadron, Castle AFB, Calif., performs a five-hour training mission that includes a midair refueling of a B-52 bomber.
The KC-Z4, a blended wing body tanker concept being developed by startup JetZero, could fuel larger groups of aircraft at longer range to hold more targets at risk, company officials say.