Airbus has conducted the first-ever fully automatic air-to-air refuelling (A3R) operation with a boom system.
Conducted over the Atlantic Ocean, the flight test campaign involving an Airbus tanker test aircraft equipped with the A3R solution. An F-16 fighter aircraft of the Portuguese Air Force was used as a receiver.
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