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Getafe, Madrid, Spain, October 11, 2023 <\/strong>\u2013 Airbus Group SE (Paris: AIR<\/a>)<\/strong> and the Republic of Singapore Air Force (RSAF) worked together to successfully complete the automatic air-to-air refuelling (A3R) flight test campaign with the Airbus A330 Multi Role Tanker Transport (MRTT) and F-15 fighter, ahead of its certification in the first half of 2024.<\/p>\n

Over the course of three weeks in August, a RSAF A330 MRTT made more than 500 automated wet and dry contacts with the air force\u2019s full fleet of receiver aircraft, including the F-15SG aircraft, a customised variant of the US-built F-15E Strike Eagle air-to-ground fighter jet.<\/p>\n

The flight tests with F-15SG were conducted in Singapore, covering the whole operational AAR envelope in different weather conditions under the supervision of the Spanish certifying authority, called INTA (National Institute for Aerospace Technology).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Getafe, Madrid, Spain, October 11, 2023 \u2013 Airbus Group SE (Paris: AIR) and the Republic of Singapore Air Force (RSAF) worked together to successfully complete the automatic air-to-air refuelling (A3R) flight test campaign with the Airbus A330 Multi Role Tanker Transport (MRTT) and F-15 fighter, ahead of its certification in the first half of 2024. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":12500,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10172,4510,9316,798,4813,3965,7890,89,5804,5637,4552,13618,8222,1836,5174,10339,5992,5670,7929,2203,4957,5676,8651,13831,13579,13156,10674,5446,10169,13863,10617,10176,1397,10195,10171,868],"tags":[7816,7924,739,16021,10260,167,539,47,464,2340,2909,160,41,3977,988,5248,2168,7087,4512,8088,3740,16022,8860,3271,1087,2837,595,5243,2245,2039,16024,16023,1184,1483,660,1001,2985,11039,1555,745,5129,16025,589,2980,889,11222,5364,843,412,4913,3598,100,11808,1899,5367,14249,1286,413,1932,2977,101,530,981,1093,1646,7290,1691,1658,632,3588,2477,6408,3896],"class_list":["post-12499","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-aerospace","category-aerospace-news","category-air-force-news","category-airbus-news","category-airplane-news","category-airport-news","category-asia-news","category-aviation-news","category-avionics","category-business-news","category-cargo-news","category-communications-news","category-consumer-news","category-defense-news","category-drone-news","category-e-commerce","category-economic-news","category-economy-news","category-european-news","category-finance-news","category-global-politics","category-international-news","category-joint-venture-news","category-manufacturing-assembly-news","category-marine-ocean-news","category-maritime","category-military","category-military-news","category-news","category-oil-gas-news","category-pacifica","category-stock-news-2","category-stock-news","category-transport","category-transportation","category-transportation-news","tag-7816","tag-7924","tag-a330","tag-a3r","tag-aar","tag-aerospace","tag-air","tag-airbus","tag-aircraft","tag-authority","tag-automatic","tag-aviation","tag-boeing","tag-built","tag-business","tag-campaign","tag-certification","tag-certifying","tag-communications","tag-complete","tag-conditions","tag-contacts","tag-custom","tag-dry","tag-eagle","tag-economic","tag-economy","tag-envelope","tag-exchange","tag-f-15","tag-f-15e","tag-f-15sg","tag-fighter","tag-fleet","tag-flight","tag-force","tag-full","tag-getafe","tag-ground","tag-group","tag-institute","tag-inta","tag-jet","tag-madrid","tag-military","tag-mrtt","tag-multi","tag-national","tag-news","tag-october","tag-operational","tag-paris","tag-refuelling","tag-republic","tag-role","tag-rsaf","tag-se","tag-singapore","tag-spain","tag-spanish","tag-stock","tag-strike","tag-tanker","tag-technology","tag-test","tag-together","tag-transport","tag-transportation","tag-us","tag-variant","tag-weather","tag-wet","tag-work"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12499","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12499"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12499\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12501,"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12499\/revisions\/12501"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/12500"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12499"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12499"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12499"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}