Women can serve in all roles in the US Air Force (including combat female pilots). Today, many women are training to become pilots, both in the military and civilian sectors. Some physical requirements for women differ from those of their male counterparts and vary depending on the role. Flying airplanes is just one of many jobs in the Air Force; of the total Air Force 689,000 personnel, only a tiny fraction, around 4%, are pilots. As it happens, the US Air Force has the highest percentage of women of any service branch (19% in 2016, according to the Air Force).
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Video: The KC-45 (A330 MRTT) – How Boeing Won A Contract First Given To Airbus
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- January 8, 2025
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February 29th, 2008. It was the day that Northrop Grumman Corporation announced that it had been selected by the U.S. Air Force to provide the KC-45A aerial refueling tanker for the KC-135 tanker replacement program. Most notably, this jet would be based on the A330 commercial airframe, produced by EADS – which, these days, would be Airbus’ Defence and Space division.Unfortunately, the celebrations wouldn’t last long for Airbus and Northrop Grumman.Just days later, Boeing would launch a full-scale counteroffensive to convince the Air Force that it had selected the wrong aircraft. In the end, Boeing was successful in overturning the Northrop Grumman deal, having its 767-based tanker win instead. It’s been quite awhile since this whole ordeal took place – long before our website and YouTube channels existed. So we thought it would be interesting to take a look back for today’s video!