How Air Force One stacks up to the Qatari 747, Trump's coveted 'palace in the sky' President Donald Trump says Air Force One isn't as impressive as some of the planes of the leaders of Qatar ...

The “tape test” has been an on-again/off-again part of Air Force body composition standards for close to a decade. A test that measured only waist circumference was dropped in 2020, but the ...

The flyover included B-2 stealth bomber, the B-1B Lancer, B-52H Stratofortress, F-22 Raptor, F-15C Eagle, F-16C Fighting Falcon, attack aircraft, the A-10 Thunderbolt II, according to Air Force ...

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 ...

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.

“We believe the actual retrofit of that aircraft is probably less than $400 million,” Meink told the House Armed Services Committee, noting the Air Force had already accounted for spare parts.