Boeing proposed a series of 12-engine tanker aircraft to transport oil from the field.
The fighters were able to return to Hawaii by following tanker aircraft.
The flying boom is attached to the rear of the tanker aircraft.
This version is a tanker aircraft, which means that it carries a lot of jet fuel to give to other planes.
It can be refuelled during flight from a tanker aircraft.
"He is a few minutes from rendezvousing with a tanker aircraft as we speak."
Each pair of Tomcats had a tanker aircraft in attendance.
He did not have enough fuel to make it to a tanker aircraft over Laos.
T-1A students go on to fly airlift and tanker aircraft.
The F-14 should stick with the tanker aircraft, to protect them against a possible attack.
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