Traduction de «Cône de ravitaillement de l'avion citerne » (Français → Anglais) :

One of the things that has happened with regard to strategic air refuelling is that the Germans have decided to go ahead and modify some of their Airbus A-310s, the same airplane as ours, to a tanker configuration, and that will significantly reduce the non-recurring engineering costs associated with that particular option.

As it goes on its mission and runs to the point where it's now beginning to run out of gas, it simply refuels from the tanker that is there.

The Marine Corps KC-130J air-refueling tankers completed 6,659 sorties, logged 13,082 flight hours, moved over 11 million pounds of cargo, transported over 32,000 personnel, and offloaded a staggering 83.9 million pounds of fuel.

– (ES) Mr President-in-Office of the Council, the Spanish citizens have not forgotten how Mr Fraga Iribarne, founder and honorary President of the People’s Party, and mentor of the current President, Mr Aznar, as a minister under the dictator Franco, deceived them by swimming in the sea at Mojácar and say that he also did so at Palomares, where four thermonuclear bombs had fallen as a result of a collision during an aerial refuelling operation between a B-52 bomber and a tanker plane. In the meantime, the US cleared and fenced off 105 hectares of land contaminated with radioactivity in a large area which was closed to the Spanish people ...[+++]and referred to as Camp Wilson.