In an unimaginable display of precision, RAF top gun pilots refuel their jets mid-air as the battle for air supremacy takes a sinister twist - and the Mirror went along for the ride ...

This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Captain RK Smithley, a pilot flying ... as a team with the tanker base, with the mechanics who keep us rolling, the air traffic controllers ...

Daher plans to start assembling TBM aircraft at its new Florida campus in 2027 as part of a strategy to expand capacity to ...

First, a US Air Force F-35 Lightning II moves into position, adjusting its speed to 280 knots to match the tanker. So secretive is its mission that cameras are forbidden. Its pilot makes precise ...

Photo: Tayfun Coskun/Anadolu/Getty Images Tanker 47 rears up as ... Montero, his co-pilot, flew in the Bolivian Air Force before becoming an American citizen; Trivellin is a former U.S. Army ...

I'm a third-generation ground firefighter who ended up in the air fighting fire, so my career has come full circle. Starting at age 16, I spent 16 years as a volunteer firefighter in southwest ...

Firefighting aircraft have been unleashing tens of thousands of gallons of water and bright-pink fire retardant on the wildfires ripping through Los Angeles over the past week. These aircraft have ...

was the first front-line officer of the Falkland War to become professional head of one of the three armed services, as Chief of Air Staff. He was one of the RAF's pilots who in 1982 joined their ...

In the five or six daily runs he's performed in Los Angeles over the last week, Calderoni's DC-10 air tanker has been buffeted by updrafts and downdrafts, while also getting pushed by strong ...

Air Mobility Command ... any given moment -- has dropped on most of the cargo and tanker aircraft that AMC relies on. The figure has become a key metric for measuring the state of the military ...