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KC-135 Stratotanker Touch and Goes

A KC-135 Stratotanker aircrew descends to the runway at McConnell Air Force Base, Kan, Dec. 18, 2018. Aircrews practice their approch and landings repeatedly to perfect their abilities of manuevering the aircraft. (U.S. Air Force photo by Staff Sgt. Chris Thornbury)
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KC-135 Stratotanker Touch and Goes

A KC-135 Stratotanker soars above McConnell Air Force Base, Kan, Dec. 18, 2018. The KC-135 has been refueling U.S. Air Force and ally aircraft for more than 62 years, enabling rapid global reach. (U.S. Air Force photo by Staff Sgt. Chris Thornbury)
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KC-135 Stratotanker Touch and Goes

A KC-135 Stratotanker approaches the runway at McConnell Air Force Base, Kan, Dec. 18, 2018. The KC-135 is a force multiplier by mfurthering long-range bombers reach and keeping fighters on target longer. (U.S. Air Force photo by Staff Sgt. Chris Thornbury)
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KC-135 Stratotanker Touch and Goes

A KC-135 Stratotanker approaches the runway at McConnell Air Force Base, Kan, Dec. 18, 2018. The KC-135 is a force multiplier by furthering long-range bombers reach and keeping fighters on target longer. (U.S. Air Force photo by Staff Sgt. Chris Thornbury)
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Frontiers in Flight Open House and Airshow

The Tora! Tora! Tora! Flight Demonstration Team fly in formation during the Frontiers in Flight Open House and Airshow, Sept. 8, 2018, at McConnell Air Force Base, Kan. The demonstration is a re-creation is of the December 7th, 1941, attack on Pearl Harbor. (U.S. Air Force photo by Senior Airman Jenna K. Caldwell)
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Frontiers in Flight Open House and Airshow

Members of the Patriot Parachute team parachute into the airfield during the Frontiers in Flight Open House and Airshow, Sept. 8, 2018, at McConnell Air Force Base, Kan. The team is a professional skydive demonstration team owned and operated by former Navy SEALs. (U.S. Air Force photo by Senior Airman Jenna K. Caldwell)
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Frontiers in Flight

Brian Correll performs an aileron roll while popping smoke from his highly-modified Pitts S2S during the Frontiers in Flight Open House and Air Show Sept. 8, 2018, at McConnell Air Force Base, Kansas. Correll is a major with the 931st Air Refueling Wing and flies the KC-135 Stratotanker. (U.S. Air Force photo by Staff Sgt. Chris Thornbury)
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Frontiers in Flight

Red Line Airshows performs during the Frontiers in Flight Open House and Air Show Sept. 8, 2018 at McConnell Air Force Base, Kansas. Red Line Airshows feature two dynamic acrobatic pilots who have teamed up for 12 years. (U.S. Air Force photo by Staff Sgt. Chris Thornbury)
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XPX team innovates solar power comm system

Senior Airman Aaron Walls, 22nd Air Refueling Wing Plans and Programs innovation team member holds up a radio antenna August 27, 2018, at McConnell Air Force Base, Kansas. The radio system has a range of 240 miles and is expected to save the Air Force over $12,000. (U.S. Air Force photo by Senior Airman Jenna K. Caldwell)
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XPX team innovates solar power comm system

Senior Airman Aaron Walls, 22nd Air Refueling Wing Plans and Programs innovation team member, tests out a portable radio August 27, 2018, at McConnell Air Force Base, Kansas. Walls helped create the harnesses, basket, face plate and antenna apparatuses for the portable solar powered radio system. (U.S. Air Force photo by Senior Airman Jenna K. Caldwell)
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XPX team innovates solar power comm system

A solar powered portable radio system, designed by the 22nd Air Refueling Wing Plans and Programs innovation team sits outside, August 27, 2018, at McConnell Air Force Base, Kansas. The system contains a Harris 117F radio system, direct current to alternating current converter and a 12-volt 150-amp hours battery—commonly found in solar-based homes. (U.S. Air Force photo by Senior Airman Jenna K. Caldwell)
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XPX team innovates solar power comm system

Members of the 22nd Air Refueling Wing Plans and Programs innovation team complete the wiring on a solar powered radio system, August 20, 2018, at McConnell Air Force Base, Kansas. From concept to design, the team put in over 400 man hours into completing the project. (Courtesy photo)
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Vietnam veteran shares story of history-making flight

Retired Lt. Col. Dick Trail, a U.S. Air Force veteran, stands in front of a private aircraft March 9, 2018, at Yingling Aviation fixed-base operator in Wichita, Kansas. Trail is a freelance instructor pilot who continued to teach after retiring with 21 years of service in the Air Force. (U.S. Air Force photo by Airman 1st Class Alan Ricker)
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Vietnam veteran shares story of history-making flight

Retired Lt. Col. Dick Trail, a U.S. Air Force veteran, inspects the wings of a private aircraft March 9, 2018, at Yingling Aviation fixed-base operator in Wichita, Kansas. Trail and his crew performed a triple air refueling over the Gulf of Tonkin during the Vietnam War. (U.S. Air Force photo by Airman 1st Class Alan Ricker)
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Vietnam veteran shares story of history-making flight

Retired Lt. Col. Dick Trail, a U.S. Air Force veteran, poses for a photo with Maj. Brittany Gilmer, 22nd Air Refueling Wing director of staff, March 9, 2018, at Yingling Aviation fixed-base operator in Wichita, Kansas. Trail was a student of the first class to graduate from the Air Force Academy in 1959. (U.S. Air Force photo by Airman 1st Class Alan Ricker)
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Airman improves efficiency, runway safety

Tech. Sgt. Eric Rhodes, a 22nd Operation Support Squadron airfield management operations noncommissioned officer in charge March 3, 2018, at McConnell Air Force Base, Kansas. Rhodes created an airfield lighting map which identifies outages in the airfield lighting system and where they are located that improves maintenance efficiency. (U.S. Air Force photo by Senior Airman Jenna K. Caldwell)
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Tanker Mission continues despite winter weather

Snow removal vehicles remove ice from flight line Feb. 20, 2018, at McConnell Air Force Base, Kansas. The snow removal team helps ensure the efficient takeoffs and landings of all inbound and outbound aircraft on the flight line. (U.S. Air Force photo by Senior Airman Jenna K. Caldwell)
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McConnell’s Red Flag team innovates to save sorties

An F-16 Fighting Falcon approaches the boom of a KC-135 Stratotanker above the Nevada Test and Training Range during Red Flag-Nellis 18-1, February 14, 2018. The Red Flag Tanker Task Force is responsible for providing aerial refueling capabilities to more than 90 coalition aircraft during the international exercise. (U.S. Air Force photo by 2nd Lt. Daniel de La Fé)
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McConnell’s Red Flag team innovates to save sorties

Maj. Bradford Ragan, Red Flag Tanker Task Force detachment commander and 349th Air Refueling Squadron assistant director of operations, and Rod Kallman, Cirrus flight instructor, pose for a photograph next to a chartered aircraft at a local airfield in North Las Vegas, Nevada, January 29, 2018. Ragan and Chief Master Sgt. Seth Thomas, 931st Maintenance Squadron superintendent attached to the task force, chartered a local aircraft to retrieve a hydraulic part at March Air Force Base, California, to repair a grounded KC-135 during Red Flag-Nellis 18-1. (Courtesy photo)
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Jack of all trades: CE Airman TDYs to Spain

Tech. Sgt. Clayton Allen, 22nd Air Refueling Wing Plans and Programs NCO in-charge, installs a communications antenna October 10, 2017 at Moron Air Base, Spain. Allen, a water and fuels systems maintenance Airman by trade, is self-taught in computer programming, satellite and ground command and control radio systems. (Courtesy photo)
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