Vice President JD Vance flies in a C-32, a custom military version of a commercial jetliner. It features a communications center, stateroom, and 32 seats for journalists. For vice presidents of the ...

President Harry Truman used The Independence, a Douglas VC-118, as his Air Force One plane. The aircraft entered service in 1947, retired in 1953, and became a museum piece in 1965. Visitors at the ...

Sierra Nevada Corp. plans to turn five Boeing 747-8 aircraft into the Air Force's new fleet of Survivable Airborne Operations Center planes, which would allow the president to direct forces during a ...

In a meeting of the cutting-edge and the mundane, the US Air Force has awarded a contract to purchase Reliable Robotics' autonomous flight technology and integrate it into an ordinary Cessna 208B ...

SAM 26000 operated as Air Force One from 1962 to 1998, carrying eight US presidents. Lyndon Johnson was sworn in on board, and the plane transported John F. Kennedy's body from Texas. SAM 26000 is ...

Abstract: Admittance control enables supple control of a robot through force-motion mapping, allowing robots to actively adapt to forces exerted by humans during interaction, which are typically ...

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket blasted off late Thursday, propelling a reusable X-37B Space Force rocket plane into space on a classified long-duration mission. It was the eighth such flight since the ...

The latest mission of the U.S. Space Force's mysterious X-37B space plane is underway. The robotic X-37B lifted off atop a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from NASA's Kennedy Space Center (KSC) in Florida ...

A secret space plane from the U.S. Space Force is set to fly on its eighth mission − one aimed at demonstrating critical space technology for deep space exploration. Just under six months post-landing ...