ROYAL AIR FORCE MILDENHALL, England — Air Force 1st Lt. Jessica Bishop, 351st Air Refueling Squadron, simulates turning a KC-135 Stratotanker in one of the many worldwide landscape scenarios used in the simulator here. The KC-135 costs about $25 million, but one hour of training in the simulator costs around one-tenth the amount it costs to fly an actual jet for the same amount of time.
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2008-03-05
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