Elon Musk visits Boeing about delayed new Air Force 1 jets
Boeing is working with the Trump administration to speed up delivery of two replacement presidential aircraft, better known as Air Force One, Boeing CEO Kelly Ortberg said in an interview on Tuesday.
Boeing CEO Kelly Ortberg said on Tuesday he is "not too worried" about the Trump administration's threats to impose tariffs on trade partners, including countries that are important parts of Boeing’s far-flung supply chain.
Elon Musk is working with Boeing on behalf of President Donald Trump in order to speed up replacements for the president’s planes, known as Air Force One, that are over budget and behind schedule.
With Donald Trump swearing-in on Monday as the next President of the US, the "Air Force One" title will be upon any Air Force aircraft that he travels in.
Just before 3 p.m. on Dec. 18, a surprising visitor showed up at Boeing Co.’s military aircraft facility in San Antonio, Texas: First Buddy Elon Musk.
In an interview with The Seattle Times after reporting grim financial results early Tuesday, Kelly Ortberg said that six months into the job, he thinks Boeing is "starting to turn the corner."
Airplane maker’s whopping losses for the fourth quarter and full year illustrate the urgency for the company, which has about 3,000 employees in San Antonio.
The 737 fuselage made by Spirit AeroSystems was delivered to Boeing's factory in Renton, Washington on 22 January, where it will be assembled into the first prototype of the US Air Force's E-7A Wedgetail airborne early warning and control jet.
A Virgin Atlantic aircraft, too, once managed to achieve high subsonic speed in 2019 on a flight from Los Angeles to London. With a strong tailwind, the aircraft, a Boeing 787 Dreamliner, topped at 801 mph (1,289 km/h). The airline’s founder, Richard Branson, put out the following cheeky message on X (formerly known as Twitter).
The midair collision Wednesday night between an American Airlines passenger jet and a U.S. Army Blackhawk helicopter is the most severe air travel accident in Washington since a passenger jet crashed into the 14th Street Bridge just moments after takeoff on a snowy January day 43 years ago.
Donald Trump has confirmed there are no survivors of a collision between an American Airlines passenger jet and a helicopter above Washington DC. Meanwhile a report has found air traffic control tower staffing at Reagan Washington National Airport was "not normal" for the time of day.