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Air Force One may soon get its first new paint job since the Kennedy years — here’s what it was like on JFK’s version of the presidential airliner

April 29, 2020

The Pentagon’s latest budget request, released on Monday, <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/paint-job-plans-new-air-force-one-trumps-private-jet-2020-2" style="background-color: initial" t…

Ukrainian president says compensation offered by Iran for shooting down airliner not enough

April 29, 2020

By Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy has said in televised remarks that Iran offered $80,000 per victim after it shot down a Ukrainian passenger jet on January 8, but that Ukraine did not accept the offer because “it was too little.”

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This was the plan for a 747 aircraft carrier

April 29, 2020

By Logan Nye

Longtime readers of WATM know that the U.S. Navy had flying carriers in the 1930s that eventually failed as zeppelins began crashi…