USAF Seeks Air Force One Replacement

Posted by Soulskill on Saturday January 10, 2009 @03:19AM from the get-off-my-plane dept.

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."

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Re:Air Force One replacement by BWJones · 2009-01-10 04:00 · Score: 0, Offtopic

I suppose your comment is from the "Hey! You kids... Get off my lawn!" category. Especially seeing as how you have invoked "douche" in your last couple of posts. Is that your word of the day? :-)
Seriously though, POTUS is an accurate description I suppose given that you can replace 9 syllables with 2 when one is talking. It also saves space and effort when typing.

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