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Baby Wants a Shiny New Air Force One NOW! [1]
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Date: 2025-02-20
The Seattle Times reprinted an article from the NYT about Drump wanting a new Air Force One "pronto". He wants Muskmelon (and the Tech Brats?) to “explore options” to speed up production of new planes. He is considering relaxing security clearance standards for “some” who work on the presidential planes, acquiring a “luxury jet” and outfitting it, etc.
Somehow, getting the master of Rapid Unplanned Disassembly as your consultant in finding a new plane capable of holding all the countermeasures and communications gear and having the range of a specially outfitted 747 in a hurry sounds like a high tech snipe hunt to me.
I saw some articles about the possibility of building cargo planes and possibly a couple of Air Force One models based on the A380 for US use — but that was back in 2007-2009. It came up again in 2020 in Simple Flying, but it’s not as fuel efficient, is too big for some airports, and didn’t have in flight refueling capability — so it looks like the only near term candidate is to upgrade from the current 747 V25As to newer model V25Bs.
Maybe DOGE and Musk could find a nice, used crop duster and Drump can taxi it around on the ground. That might finally give DOGE some semblance of doing actual cost cutting. Hey, crop dusters for all the cabinet members. That will also cut down on embarrassing gaffes abroad.
Edit — added “near term” to “candidate”
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