Airbus A380 display at Paris Airshow 2017 #A380 #Airbus #Aircraft #Airplanes #Airshow #Avgeek #Aviation #France #Paris #ParisAirshow #PAS17 #Planes #Travel #wemakeitfly #photography (Instagram 04.02.2018)
Airbus has achieved the first ever fully automatic air-to-air refuelling (A3R) operation with a boom system. The flight test campaign, conducted earlier in the year over the Atlantic Ocean, involved an Airbus tanker test aircraft equipped with the Airbus A3R solution, with an F-16 fighter aircraft of the Portuguese Air Force acting as a receiver.