RAAF KC-30A refuels ‘Bone’

A Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF) Airbus Defence and Space KC-30A Multi-Role Tanker Transport (MRTT) has conducted refuelling trials with a US Air Force B-1B Lancer. The trials, part of a flight-test programme at Edwards Air Force Base, California were carried out by a test team led by the RAAF’s Aircraft Research and Development Unit and the USAF’s 418th Flight Test Squadron. All parameters of the air-to-air refuelling procedures between the two aircraft were examined during 185 dry contacts and