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Aircraft. Airbus achieves Automatic Air-to-Air Refuelling contact
Madrid, Spain - With boom performed for first time ever
Airbus Defence and Space has successfully demonstrated automatic air-to-air refuelling (AAR) contacts with a fighter aircraft from a tanker’s refuelling boom – the first time in the world that this has been done. Its A-310 MRTT company development aircraft performed six automatic contacts with a F-16 of the Portuguese Air Force in a demonstration of a technique which the company believes holds gre...
fra/pec - 1204272
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