Air Force Secretary Troy Meink said today that modifying a Qatari jet to serve as Air Force One would likely cost "less than $400 million," despite some experts positing it could cost upwards of $1 billion. Meink, speaking during a House Armed Services Committee hearing, declined to go into the specific retrofitting needs for the jet -- a Boeing 747 owned by the Qatari government and offered as a gift to the U.S. Meink gave the estimate after a back-and-forth...
