What does it take to be named the top fighter pilot in the US Air Force? For "Fuel," 31st Operations Support Squadron chief of weapons and tactics, it's a culmination of 10 years' work in the Air ...

Narrator: Fighter jets can ... for receiving the fuel from the boom. Kubusek: Generally, while the boom operator is in the back doing all of the hard work, the pilots are up front.

Brown is a former Air Force chief test pilot as well as president ... but it requires the use of the fighter jet's afterburner, which expends more fuel and needs to be used strategically.