⛽️🫎 Nobody hauls ass without tanker gas. Altus Demo Team KC-135 and C-17 in pre-contact aerial refueling formation
✈️ ↖️ Aircraft: 🇺🇸 Boeing KC-135R Stratotanker, quad-engine fixed wing military aerial refueling tanker and transport aircraft
🌀 Powerplant: 4× CFM International CFM56-2B1 (F108) high-bypass turbofan engines
🗂️ S/N: 63-8033 (38033)
🛠️ C/N: 18650
✈️ ↘️ Aircraft: 🇺🇸 Boeing C-17A Globemaster III fixed-wing four-engine military transport aircraft
🌀 Powerplant: 4× Pratt & Whitney PW2000 (F117-PW-100) turbofan engines
🗂️ S/N: 98-0055 (80055)
🛠️ C/N: 50059 / F58
💡 Fun fact: Telescoping refueling boom of KC-135 is controlled aerodynamically by ruddervators
🧑✈️ Assigned to: Altus Air Force Base, 97th Air Mobility Wing
🎪 Airshow: 2025 Beale Air & Space Expo
📍 Location: Beale Air Force Base, California, USA
🙏 Special thanks to Beale Air Force Base Public Affairs for providing me with a media pass
🖼️ Prints available 🔗
📷 Fujifilm X-H2S
🔭 Fujinon XF200mmF2
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