The United States Air Force will be permitted to retire around 111 fighter jets but not its F-15Es and F-22s, with limits on ...

President Dwight Eisenhower became the first US president to travel by jet when he flew on a new Air Force One plane in 1959. The jet, known as SAM (Special Air Missions) 970, was customized to ...

Four US presidents flew aboard the Air Force One plane known as SAM 970 ... Eisenhower has been accompanied by the briefcase at all times. The safe also held military communication center codes.

The presidential office explained that it was a performance check flight regularly conducted today (10th) in connection with the military human rights ...

including the Air Force’s new robot fighter jets, called collaborative combat aircraft. The CCAs will cost about $30 million per drone, which is roughly a third of the cost of one F-35 jet.