An early version of a flexible Air Force plane with vertical take-off and landing capabilities.
Fact is, any Air Force plane transporting the U.S. president gets the Air Force One designation for air traffic control purposes.
In 1992, a Zambian air force plane carrying Zambia's national football team crashed into the Atlantic off Gabon killing all 30 aboard.
The BBC's correspondent in Tripoli, James Robbins, said Fhimah emerged from a Royal Netherlands Air Force plane on Thursday afternoon to "tumultuous scenes".
Some 80 Israeli diplomats and their families were driven to the airport under military escort and ferried home by an Israeli air-force plane.
The passengers clapped as they took off on a big gray air force plane headed for the capital, Santiago, which has troubles of its own.
In May 1998, a Peruvian air force plane, a Boeing 737, on charter to an American oil company crashed near the Ecuadorian border, killing more than 80 people.
But video footage of her arrival at Tuzla shows Clinton, then first lady, calmly walking from the rear ramp of a U.S. Air Force plane with her daughter, Chelsea, then 16, at her side.
But the first officer, still believing that the object in the sky above him was the cargo plane, initiated a dive to avoid the perceived imminent collision -- sending the jetliner toward the Air Force plane.
In 1995, a French air force cargo plane landed at the Bosnian city of Mostar, becoming the first aircraft to do so since 1992.
One hundred and fifty orphans and 28 adults died when a US air force transport plane made an emergency landing after a door blew out.
Later, in the departures lounge, I watched the landing of a huge United States Air Force transport plane, which disgorged lots of equipment and loaded several lorries-full of troops.
Photographs show the violent force deformed the plane's fuselage, forced the tail wheel to deploy and likely resulted in the plane's trim tab -- a piece of the tail -- to fly off, the safety board said.
She was known for camping out each summer with the Air Force Academy freshman class, for going up in almost every kind of plane the Air Force flies, and for taking off on early-morning bicycle treks when she visited bases around the country.
He says this angered his government-appointed medical escort, who tried to force Diouf into the plane's lavatory.
The presidential plane Air Force One flew over Iraq for about an hour before heading back to Washington.
Trapattoni has had his squad settled for a while and it seems certain that 27-year-old Montella has done enough to force himself onto the plane to the Far East.
The Air Force began monitoring the plane after noticing it flying erratically over the Gulf of Mexico on Thursday morning, and planes sent up to investigate it reported the Cessna's windows were either iced or fogged over, Edwards said.
Because this was a training mission, the only people on that plane were Air Force personnel.
The Air Force also will have a plane in the air that can detect the release of hydrazine gas.
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The problem is that the Air Force says it needs the plane to counter, in part, U.S. airplanes that have been sold overseas.
There are obviously a number of complicated logistics involved with moving Air Force One, moving a plane of reporters, events, local stops, phone calls involved.
When South Korea detected the plane, six air force jets scrambled to intercept it.
After a five-minute flight over Tampa Bay, the plane entered MacDill Air Force Base's restricted airspace and flew over the runway about 100 feet off the ground, Miller said.
The remains of eight Royal Air Force crew members who died in a 1945 plane crash have been buried in Malaysia.
Lockheed is mobilizing grass-roots Web efforts and traditional lobbying to keep the plane going, and the Air Force will ask Defense Secretary Robert Gates for more planes.
This appears to be the mindset of the Air Force regarding its experimental X-37B space plane, the billion-dollar robotic vehicle's orbital flight being extended beyond the 270 days it was initially designed for.
The unmanned plane will be launched from Edwards Air Force Base in California and will fly for only about 10 seconds before it crashes into the Pacific Ocean.
And on Thursday, his casket was wrapped in an American flag as it was transported off a military plane onto the tarmac of Dover Air Force Base in Delaware, according to the U.S. Air Force Mortuary Affairs Operation.
Without a military space plane, there is no way the Air Force can become the Air and Space Force.
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