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Airbus MRTT Test Aircraft Successfully Completed World’s First Fully Automatic Refuelling Contacts On F-16 Fighter Jets

Airbus MRTT Test Aircraft Successfully Completed World’s First Fully Automatic Refuelling Contacts On F-16 Fighter Jets

Photo caption: The picture shows the first fully automated refuelling contacts between an Airbus tanker test aircraft and a Portuguese Air Force F-16 fighter jet. Credits: airbus Airbus has achieved the first-ever fully automatic air-to-air refueling (A3R) operation with a boom system. The flight test campaign, conducted earlier in the …

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