The activity of supplying or taking on fuel

Usage examples of refueling.

Atlantic, using Wallops Island as their point of reference and their refuge if emergency landings or refuelings became necessary.

The nonstop flight from Ukraine to Las Vegas had taken only nine hours, including two aerial refuelings.

His Tomcat touched down gently, despite the lengthy ride and three aerial refuelings, because Robby still thought of himself as a fighter pilot, and therefore an artist of sorts.

With only two aerial refuelings, he could fly halfway around the world--but more impressive, he could fly over their fleets, their capitals, their cities, their military bases, and he could unleash devastating weapons on all of them, and those on the ground would not know he was ever there, even after the missiles hit!

One unmanned Agena-Three supply tanker carrying sixty thousand pounds of water from earth would be enough for satellite, shuttle, and hypersonic plane refuelings and full station operation for a month.

The last two relationships were important because if administrators of the base got into trouble, they could always have easy access to the high command in the nation’s capital, and if airplanes on test flights had really difficult maneuvers to perform, they could fly out over the [280] Atlantic, using Wallops Island as their point of reference and their refuge if emergency landings or refuelings became necessary.

That flight had been an epic nightmare, requiring multiple midair refuelings and continuous, nerve-wracking close-formation flying, a tactic designed to make several planes appear as one on enemy radar.

There would be three midair refuelings on the three-thousand-mile route to Libya.