The U.S. Air Force has signed off on a plan to put AI in the left seat of its KC-135 tanker fleet. Autonomous flight ...
The USAF has approved Merlin’s AI-driven pilot for testing on the KC-135 Stratotanker with flight trials slated for 2025.
This joint USAF and Merlin project will evaluate the viability of scaling the AI copilot to large transport aircraft, ...
In an extreme demonstration of US Air Force interoperability, a US aerial refueler refuels Russian-built fighter planes.
This marks the first publicly acknowledged instance of a U.S. Air Force KC-135 tanker refueling a Russian-made Su-30MKM ...
Flight testing of an autonomous KC-135 Stratotanker may begin next year. Boston’s Merlin Labs, Inc. and the U.S. Air Force’s ...
At McConnell AFB in Wichita, Kansas, maintenance of KC-135 and KC-46 refueling aircraft is taken very seriously. Meet the two ...
The National Cold War Center in Blytheville will be working with the Woodrow Wilson Center for International Scholars, a D.C.
Autonomy company Merlin can begin the process of introducing certain software-controlled cockpit actions in Boeing KC-135 tankers, the Boston-based company said on Nov. 11. The U.S. Air Force ...
On June 20, 1981, Theresa Claiborne was commissioned as a second lieutenant in the U.S. Air Force. The Air Force’s first Black female pilot, Claiborne would become the first Black woman to command and ...
It will also feature a Boeing B-52 Stratofortress and Boeing KC-135 Stratotanker. According to Smith, the museum is on the ...