Lakeland High School instructor Corey Pettit and junior Brent Hill stand in front of the KC-135 they flew in April 26. They watched as the Air National Guard crew refueled a P-8 plane and sat in the cockpit as the plane landed in Fairchild Air Force Base.
May 4, 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.