The new Qatari 'Flying Palace' has arrived in the United States to be reconfigured as the next US presidential transport ...

Installing capabilities equivalent to the decades-old 747s now used as Air Force One would almost certainly consign the project to a similar fate as Boeing's replacement initiative, which has been ...

United States Air Force Secretary Troy Meink told Congress on Thursday, June 5th, that it would “probably” cost hundreds of millions of dollars to transform the civilian-spec 747 received from Qatar ...

WASHINGTON, June 5 (Reuters) - It will cost hundreds of millions of dollars to retrofit a Qatari luxury Boeing 747 jetliner to fly as the new Air Force One, Air Force Secretary Troy Meink said on ...

The Boeing 747-8 is currently the world's longest commercial jet in history with a fuselage measuring 250 ft 2 in (76.25 m), eclipsing the Airbus A340, which was 247 feet (75.30 meters) long. The ...

Currently, the Air Force One fleet includes two customised Boeing 747-200B series aircraft. While the name of the Presidential jet is widely recognised today, it wasn’t until 1954 that this call sign ...

Today, with hindsight being 20/20, we know how the Boeing 747 revolutionized air travel. But that was anything but a sure thing back when it was still on the drawing board in the mid-1960s.