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Standing in the doorway of a Boeing 747, former president Barack Obama has one arm wrapped around Michelle Obama. The pair are waving, smiles plastered across their faces.
The growth of Amazon.com and e-commerce in general is bolstering the fortunes of Rockford, Ill.' s Chicago Rockford International Airport and two air cargo carriers that use the airport, elevating the profile of a facility that must compete for air traffic with the Windy City's dominant O'Hare International Airport.
A China Airlines Boeing 747-400 freighter, registration B-18711 performing freight flight CI-5148 from Anchorage,AK to Chicago O'Hare,IL with 4 people on board, was on an ILS approach to runway 10L at 09:57L when the crew advised they were going around having had a last minute deviation on the runway. The crew of another aircraft on the ground advised the aircraft had gone off the runway, a third crew advised tower the runway needed to be inspected.
The next generation of Air Force One will abandon the planes' traditional color scheme in favor of red, white and blue, President Donald Trump told CBS News in an interview that aired Tuesday , confirming reports about changes to the planes' iconic look . The interview came the same day that the Department of Defense announced that Boeing had secured a $3.9 billion contract to build two new Air Force One planes.
One of the largest airplanes in the world -- a jet that forever changed America's military and airline industry -- is turning half a century old. When you see a C-5 Galaxy on the ground for the first time, the first thing that strikes you is... it's freakishly huge.
Really if you want to watch the nightly news one of the best outlets is Seth Meyers' late night show. Last night he marveled at the fact that Kim Jong-un brought his own portable toilet to the summit so that Western spies won't use the sewer system to check on his health.
Sun Country Airlines now says it plans to reimburse passengers left stranded in Mexico after the carrier canceled its last flights of the season following a late-season blizzard in Minnesota. Instead of extending its schedule or sending charters to bring home about 250 passengers from the Mexican resort cities of Cabo San Lucas and Mazatln, Sun Country opted instead to refund fliers' fares and then told them they were on their own to find a new way home.
US President Donald Trump gestures as he boards Air Force One at Joint Base Andrews, Maryland on 12 January, 2018, for a weekend trip to Mar-a-Lago: AFP Air Force One , the military-spec jet liner that ferries President Donald Trump around the globe, is to receive a $24m refrigerator upgrade. Boeing was handed the contract to design and install two gigantic chillers on the aircraft that will store enough food to keep crew members, travelling journalists, Mr Trump and his advisers going for weeks at a time.
Under a new government contract awarded to Boeing, the U.S. Air Force will pay the aeronautics behemoth $23,657,671 to replace two of the five chiller units on the plane currently used by President Donald Trump. Both of those units, which are used to store food, were installed on the plane when it was originally delivered in 1990, according to the Air Force.
President-elect Donald Trump wants to clip the wings of a new Air Force One, saying the customized 747 is too expensive. "The plane is totally out of control," Trump told reporters Tuesday morning.