This week Nike teamed up with South Korean designer Hyein Seo for an updated take on the Ava Rover silhouette. This sneaker ...

The US Air Force successfully conducted Operation Midnight Hammer, demonstrating its reach and precision, but the operation’s ...

The Air Force estimates retrofitting a Qatari Boeing 747 for Air Force One will cost less than $400 million. Skip to content. NOWCAST WXII 12 News at 12 pm.

Air Force Secretary Troy Meink told lawmakers on Thursday that it will “probably” cost the Air Force less than $400 million to retrofit a luxury Qatari plane that President Donald Trump has ...

Air Force Secretary Troy Meink told lawmakers on Thursday that it will “probably” cost the Air Force less than $400 million to retrofit a luxury Qatari plane that President Donald Trump has ...

“Air Force One costs over $2 billion a piece so there’s almost a factor of 10 difference in the cost of just the airplane and what it takes to make it into an Air Force One,” the person said.

Pricey ticket. According to Kenneth Walsh, author of “Air Force One: A History of Presidents and Their Planes,” the cost to operate presidential aircraft in the 1950s was roughly $348 per hour.

The aircraft that most often serve as Air Force One are two Boeing VC-25As, which are highly modified Boeing 747-200Bs. The United States Air Force (USAF) selected the Boeing 747-8 to replace them ...

The Eisenhower era saw Air Force One brought into the jet age. In August 1959 Eisenhower first flew aboard VC-137A, a Boeing 707 Stratoliner nicknamed “Queenie” that had been part of the ...