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How boom operators aboard the US Air Force's flying gas stations keep their cool doing an 'inherently dangerous' job
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, ...
A U.S. Air Force investigation found that incorrect manual control inputs by a KC-46A's boom operator, as well as a F-22A Raptor pilot not accounting for the other aircraft's "stiff boom ...
The KC-46 tanker’s refueling boom has gotten stuck in at least three fighter jets during missions, resulting in three accidents and damage measured in the tens of millions of dollars, the Air Force ...
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