The new OSHA crane rule (29 CFR 1926 Subpart CC) requires operators to be certified when using cranes with capacities exceeding 2,000 lb. in construction applications The National Commission for the ...

Thousands of feet up and racing across the sky at hundreds of miles per hour, US Air Force tankers close to within just 12 feet of fighter jets to refuel them in flight, sometimes as little as 8 feet, ...

A KC-46A Pegasus like this one flew an entire aerial refueling mission with one pilot and one boom operator, two people - just as with the F-15E pictured here - on October 25. The Air Force’s newest ...

Just days before his 90th birthday, Retired Master Sgt. Eugene T. Beal had the opportunity to test out his muscle memory about 50 years after his retirement as a boom operator in the U.S. Air Force.

SOUTHWEST ASIA – Air Force Senior Master Sgt. Floyd W. Atkins, a 340th Expeditionary Air Refueling Squadron boom operator, has reached 8,000 refueling hours in his career, a rare feat for a boom ...

On a poorly lit, dead-end street in an industrial section of Oakland Park, the lone house was known as the Boom Boom Room, a bordello offering food, alcohol, drugs and sex with women and underage ...

Ken Nightingall, a veteran boom operator who is known to many “Star Wars” fans as “pink shorts boom guy,” died Tuesday at his home in the United Kingdom. He was 92. Nightingall worked on over 47 films ...

The boom operator is the assistant to the production sound mixer on a TV show, film or commercial. What a boom operator does: A boom operator is responsible for holding a microphone called a boom mike ...

So what do mushrooms sound like? Does anyone know...? Are they squishy or buzzy or just silent? This fun experimental animated short film titled Sounds Good follows a curious boom mic operator "on a ...

Business Insider recently interviewed a US Air Force boom operator at a base in England. The boom operator is responsible for setting up the midair refueling for a receiving aircraft. They shared how ...

Ken Nightingall, who had a long career in the biz as a boom operator and spawned his own cosplay phenomenon among Star Wars fans, has died at the age of 92. AMPS, the Association of Motion Picture ...