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Thursday, January 15, 2009

Boeing Completes 1st Aerial Refuelings of 737 for Australia's Wedgetail AEW&C Program

The Boeing Company today announced it has completed the first aerial refuelings of a 737 platform.

The historic flights were conducted for Project Wedgetail, Australia's airborne early warning and control (AEW&C) program.

Flying at 25,000 feet above Edwards Air Force Base, Calif., on Jan. 7, Boeing pilot Ron Johnston maneuvered the 737-700 AEW&C aircraft into a U.S. Air Force KC-10 tanker's refueling boom envelope and easily maintained its position below the tanker.

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2 comments:

  1. Maritime25/3/09 06:38

    Good Afternoon, may I ask the question, did Autralian Defence Forces do not have any AEW&C capibility yet?

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  2. Unknown25/3/09 07:40

    From Australian Airpower:
    It is in fact surprising that neither the RAAF nor RAN had ever focussed on AEW in the past, as the need has always been there. The way things are at this time, any aircraft from the Tu-20s of Soviet Long Range Aviation forces to low flying Cessnas, flown by drug traffickers, can cross the coast without being detected, let alone challenged.

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