An E-4B Nightwatch "Doomsday" jet left Offutt Tuesday night ahead of approaching thunderstorms. The crew declared an ...
The “doomsday plane” is a modified Boeing 747 built to withstand a nuclear war. British news site iNews was the first to report on the spotting. The modified Boeing 747 was spotted taking off ...
An aircraft created to be a US nuclear deterrent was seen flying around the US Midwest having taken off from Oklahoma ...
By that time the original Doomsday planes will be over half a century old. The current planes will be replaced by a set of Korean Air 747-8 passenger jets which have been bought for $674 million ...
"Doomsday planes" serve as airborne command centers ... The E-4A was developed in the 1970s from the Boeing 747-200 passenger aircraft. The first two were delivered in 1973, with the last arriving ...