Hi, today I am presenting you the story and the tech behind the Boeing E-4, The National Operations Airborne Center E-4B, ...
Air Force One is known as the "flying Oval Office," but there's a lesser-known presidential plane that can operate as a ...
One of America’s “doomsday planes” made flight to Joint Base Andrews in Washington, DC Tuesday night as President Trump weighs whether to strike Iran’s nuclear facilities. The E-4B Nightwatch – which ...
When nuclear-tipped missiles can reach their targets in minutes, and cyber warfare can cripple entire nations with the click ...
From the outside, the E-4B’s blue-and-white livery resembles that of Air Force One, the presidential aircraft—also built from a Boeing 747. Inside, the two are nothing alike. Innocuous enough from the ...
The U.S. Air Force E-4B Nightwatch is a modified Boeing 747-200, also called the Doomsday airplane. Built in the 1970s, the four E-4Bs were designed to act as a flying White House in case a nuclear ...
Maj. Ted DeBonis , left, and Lt. Col. Peter J. Amaral exit a E-4B Nightwatch at the Lincoln Airport on Tuesday. Two of the four planes in the E-4B fleet sit at the Lincoln Airport on Tuesday. Air ...
From the outside, apart from that weird hump, the E-4B Doomsday Plane could be mistaken for a standard Boeing 747, or at least a presidential one. In reality, it's a plane that serves a very specific ...
Maintainers from the 595th Aircraft Maintenance Squadron prepare the E-4B for flight as a visiting documentary production team loads onto the Nightwatch to film a local training sortie and air ...