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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, ...
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USAF Selects McGhee Tyson ANGB as Next KC-46A Pegasus Base as Boeing Tests RVS 2.0

Boeing is now testing the new Remote Vision System 2.0 for the KC-46A’s troubled telescoping boom system, which addresses serious Category 1 deficiencies.