Instructors were excited "Like little kids" when they were invited on a refueling flight through the Air National Guard, in what was a once in a lifetime opportunity for many of them. Corey Pettit is enthralled by the view, and the chance to have full range of the KC-135 plane.
May 3, 2023
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During a roughly 3 hour flight from Fairchild Air Force Base, Lakeland High School students had full range of a KC-135 plane to do whatever they wanted, and watched as air guard pilots refueled a plane from inside the “boombox”, where they were close enough to see the patches on the other pilots’ uniforms.