Every inch could hold revenue-generating passengers, United said ... with a fuel load similar to the KC-135 and KC-46, around 200,000 pounds. But the Z4 would use that fuel more efficiently ...

If the KC-135s are indeed still in service in the 2050s, “that timeline would put the KC-135’s service life near 100 years,” Air & Space Forces Magazine reported. That’s a long time.

The U.S. government has been flying military versions of civilian aircraft since the early days of aviation. The Ford Trimotor, made between 1926 and 1933, also came in an Army Air Corps version ...

There were no survivors among the 64 passengers on the jet and three crew ... In addition to the 10 KC-135 Stratotankers assigned to the 134th Refueling Wing at the McGhee Tyson Air National ...

Sixty years ago, a Boeing KC-135 refueling tanker carrying more than ... Utah State in Logan, Utah, carried 37 passengers and three crew members. Of those, 29 were killed at the scene, and two ...

United States Air Force KC-135 aerial refueling and airlift aircraft ... It is also capable of transporting passengers and patients for aeromedical evacuation, as well as carrying up to 83,000 ...

Additionally, the KC-46 can transport cargo, passengers and provide aeromedical evacuation when ... of Liberty Air Show will include the C-17 Globemaster III and a KC-135 Stratotanker. Civilian acts ...

a requirement for the modified aircraft to begin transporting cargo and passengers for customers. The company’s airworthiness plan for autonomous KC-135 testing was accepted by the Air Force in ...

Noteworthy, the U.S. Air Force has a KC-135 Demonstration Team based at Fairchild ... The KC-46A can accommodate a mixed load of passengers, aeromedical evacuation and cargo capabilities.

Flight testing of an autonomous KC-135 Stratotanker may begin next year. Boston’s Merlin Labs, Inc. and the U.S. Air Force’s 6th Air Refueling Wing at MacDill AFB, Fla., have been testing the ...

Photo by Yasuo Osakabe) “KC-46s will replace KC-135 Stratotankers at the final decision ... The aircraft have a variety of uses including refueling, passenger transport, medical evacuations ...

The story of the KC-10 began during the Vietnam War as the U.S. Air Force began to stretch its KC-135 Stratotanker fleet ... and the ability to carry 75 passengers. It would have a crew of four ...