Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
The Boeing KC-135 Stratotanker is an American military aerial refueling tanker aircraft that was developed from the Boeing 367-80 prototype, alongside the Boeing 707 airliner. It has a narrower fuselage and is shorter than the 707.
The aircraft, which was heavy with fuel for the non-stop trip to London, sprayed gasoline as it hit the ground, which set fire to the roadbed, a barn, and the surrounding woods. [3] The flight of the fourth KC-135 was canceled after the accident. The two already in the air, Alpha and Bravo, continued to London and broke the world record.
The Palomares incident occurred on 17 January 1966, when a B-52G bomber of the United States Air Force's Strategic Air Command collided with a KC-135 tanker during mid-air refueling at 31,000 feet (9,450 m) over the Mediterranean Sea, off the coast of Spain. The KC-135 was destroyed when its fuel load ignited, killing all four crew members.
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, after taking off from McConnell Air Force Base. [1] This resulted in the deaths of all seven crew members on board the aircraft and an additional twenty-three people on the ground. [2] [3]
Employed KC-135, RC-135, SR-71 and U-2/TR-1 aircraft and crews on loan from U.S. based SAC wings for air refueling and reconnaissance operations. With pending inactivation of SAC in 1992 and transfer of European USAF air refueling aircraft assets to USAFE, wing inactivated and was replaced by USAFE's 100th Air Refueling Wing .
The 384th Air Refueling Squadron is an active United States Air Force unit, stationed at Fairchild Air Force Base, Washington, where it is assigned to the 92d Operations Group and operates the Boeing KC-135 Stratotanker aircraft conducting air refueling missions.
The squadron was activated at Orlando Army Air Base, Florida on 1 June 1942 as one of the four original squadrons of the 100th Bombardment Group, [4] [5] It was intended to equip the squadron with Consolidated B-24 Liberators The Army Air Forces (AAF) decided to concentrate heavy bomber training under Second Air Force, and before the end of June, the squadron moved to Pendleton Field, Oregon.
It operates Boeing KC-135 Stratotanker aircraft conducting air refueling missions. The squadron, was activated as the 350th Bombardment Squadron during World War II as a heavy bomber unit. It served in combat in the European Theater of Operations, where it earned a Distinguished Unit Citation and the French Croix de Guerre with Palm for its ...