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- Refueling simulator cuts expenses, expands learning at MacDill AFB
Operators of the booms feeding fuel from KC-135 Stratotanker jets to thirsty fighters and bombers sit in front of a jazzed-up video game called a Boom Operator Weapons Systems Trainer. There they practice the delicate in-flight maneuver that links up two aircraft zooming through the skies at several hundred miles per hour.
Aug. 27, 2013 - Stars and Stripes