The Boeing KC-135 Stratotanker is an American military aerial refueling tanker aircraft that was developed from the Boeing 367-80 prototype, alongside...
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Stratofreighter. It replaced the KB-29 and was succeeded by the Boeing KC-135 Stratotanker. The KC-97 Stratofreighter was an aerial refueling tanker variant...
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fixture of the United States Air Force. It was developed from the Boeing KC-135 Stratotanker. In the early 1960s, the Military Air Transport Service operated...
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States Air Force (USAF) as the winner in the KC-X tanker competition to replace older Boeing KC-135 Stratotankers. The first aircraft was delivered to the...
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The Boeing NC-135 and NKC-135 are special versions of the Boeing C-135 Stratolifter and Boeing KC-135 Stratotanker modified to operate on several different...
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its oldest KC-135E Stratotankers. Most USAF KC-135s are of the updated KC-135R variant. In early 2002 the USAF began negotiations with Boeing on the lease...
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replacing the aging Boeing KC-135 Stratotanker tankers currently in service. However, the contest was reopened in July 2008, after Boeing's protest of the...
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Missing or empty |title= (help) Hopkins III, Robert S. (1997). Boeing KC-135 Stratotanker: More Than Just a Tanker. Leicester, England: Midland Publishing...
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aerial refueling tanker aircraft to replace some of their older Boeing KC-135 Stratotankers. The contest was for a production contract for 179 new tankers...
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Operation Looking Glass (redirect from EC-135 Looking Glass)
(1997). Boeing KC-135 Stratotanker: more than just a tanker. Aerofax. pp. 116–117. ISBN 978-1-85780-069-2. Strategic Air & Space Museum: EC-135: Looking...
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built as KC-97 Stratofreighters for inflight refueling. The KC-97 began to be phased out with the introduction of the Boeing KC-135 Stratotanker in 1957...
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On 16 January 1965, a U.S. Air Force Boeing KC-135 Stratotanker crashed in the central United States, in a neighborhood in north-eastern Wichita, Kansas...
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Dawn). During the Vietnam War, doubts began to form regarding the Boeing KC-135 Stratotanker fleet's ability to meet the needs of the United States' global...
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On June 27, 1958, a Boeing KC-135 Stratotanker attempting to break a world speed record crashed shortly after takeoff from Westover Air Force Base, killing...
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tenant Air Force Reserve Command wing at Beale AFB flying the Boeing KC-135 Stratotanker, operationally gained by Air Mobility Command (AMC). Beale AFB...
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smaller Boeing KC-135 Stratotanker under the USAF's KC-X program. Boeing officials have described the KC-777 as suitable for the related KC-Z program...
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Refueling Wing at McConnell Air Force Base, Kansas. It operates Boeing KC-135 Stratotanker aircraft conducting air refueling missions. The squadron, was...
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and executes McDonnell Douglas C-17 Globemaster III, Boeing KC-46, and Boeing KC-135 Stratotanker pilot and aircrew training, providing formal school initial...
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Stratojet force. In 1964, the squadron converted to the Boeing KC-135 Stratotanker and supported Boeing B-52 Stratofortress, then General Dynamics FB-111s...
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