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2. Blue force tracking - Wikipedia

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   Blue force tracking is a United States military term for a GPS -enabled capability that provides military commanders and forces with location information about friendly (and despite its name, also hostile) military forces. In NATO military symbology, blue typically denotes friendly forces. The capability provides a common picture of the ...

3. Boeing VC-25 - Wikipedia

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   The Boeing VC-25 is a military version of the Boeing 747 airliner, modified for presidential transport and commonly operated by the United States Air Force (USAF) as Air Force One, the call sign of any U.S. Air Force aircraft carrying the president of the United States. Only two examples of this aircraft type are in service; they are highly ...

4. Air brake (road vehicle) - Wikipedia

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   Truck air-actuated disc brake. An air brake or, more formally, a compressed-air-brake system, is a type of friction brake for vehicles in which compressed air pressing on a piston is used to both release the parking/emergency brakes in order to move the vehicle, and also to apply pressure to the brake pads or brake shoes to slow and stop the vehicle.

5. The Cost To Operate and Maintain Air Force One - AOL

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   As is so often the case, an already big number kept getting bigger and by 2019, Air Force Magazine was reporting that the new planes were expected to cost $5.2 billion. Their 100,000-plus page ...

6. Air Force One - Wikipedia

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   SAM 29000, one of two VC-25As used as Air Force One, approaching Dayton International Airport in October 2012. Air Force One is the official air traffic control designated call sign for a United States Air Force aircraft carrying the president of the United States. The term is commonly used to denote U.S. Air Force aircraft modified and used to ...

7. VC-137C SAM 27000 - Wikipedia

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   VC-137C SAM 27000. SAM 27000 was the second of two Boeing VC-137C United States Air Force aircraft that were specifically configured and maintained for the use of the president of the United States. It used the call sign Air Force One when the president was on board, and at other times it used the call sign SAM 27000 (spoken as 'SAM two-seven ...