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USAF Seeks Air Force One Replacement
Tyketto writes "The United States Air Force has taken the first public step in the search for a replacement of the Boeing VC-25, also known as Air Force One, saying it is no longer cost effective to operate and modernize the two 19-year-old VC-25s, which are converted Boeing 747-200s. Airbus has already submitted data for the A380, and while Boeing has had the Air Force One contract for nearly 50 years, delays with the Boeing 787 Dreamliner and Boeing 747-8, as well as the KC-X Tanker competition, may see the USAF looking to Europe for its next presidential aircraft."
Because Bono says we're supposed to.
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How about Russian? Nothing would say badass as showing up in an An-225 Mriya
Presidents tend to have pretty big egos, so maybe the space is needed.
On the other hand, the Senate scolded the American Big Three for their corporate jets. Maybe the Air Force should be a better role model, and go for something smaller.
I was thinking of something like this: http://www.jamesbondmm.co.uk/vehicles/little-nellie?id=002
The President could have some real fun with that, and it would add teeth to his domestic and foreign policy.
Schroedinger's Brexit: The UK is both in and out of the EU at the same time!
Hey, it's illegal to make threats against the president of the USA...
Or did they finally fix the V22 ?
I've had it with these --ing Presidents on this --ing plane!
You left out it's also a transformer.
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American plane, European plane; all parts made in Taiwan!
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it is quite appropriate for the dot
"I was in the 'Dot, man! You don't know what it was like! You weren't there!"
The correlation between ignorance of statistics and using "correlation is not causation" as an argument is close to 1.
Please. I know from extended studies of Dr Who that the British don't even notice when their prime minister is abducted by blubbery, farting aliens.
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an F-22 Raptor?
That would one bad-ass mo-fo ride.
I would NOT want to mess with him in that.
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Well, at first my mind translated it as Plonker of the bUnited States but then I realised thay was only true until Jan 20