Tom_Waarne
Ask the Qataris’ to donate it to Orbis or another deserving charity. The goodwill would be enormous.
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Ask the Qataris’ to donate it to Orbis or another deserving charity. The goodwill would be enormous.
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Maybe it’s just me, but this has the feel of a little preemptive damage control.
I wish all these moronic clowns would ride into the desert on a horse with no name. More drama, some extra drama for grandma, some for uncle Joe and a whole lot of news-dominating bullshit to keep the masses busy and with a spinning head.
Agree wholeheartedly ,more of the same from this administration!
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Lovely three BR, two BA, with 2-car garage and pool, in affluent neighborhood, at a great price. Potential bug infestation, but trust us, we got them all…
So, the plan is for the US to accept this “gift” airplane and then spend tremendous amounts of money hardening it for service as AF1 and then take it out of service in 2028 at which time some other AF1 will replace it.
Drain the swamp? Eliminate waste, fraud, and abuse? Uphold the Constitution? Sure, whatever they say.
How is this thing going to fly with so many right wings on it?
A bill to ban the use (candidacy) of a foreign-owned airplane for AF1? The two airframes currently being modified for the job were originally purchased by a Russian airline, no?
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Excellent idea, Tom Waarne.
(Orbis is a flying eye surgery hospital that visits cities to help people.
An episode of Mighty Planes covers it, including a maintenance challenge to diagnose and fix engine surge landing in India on its way to China.
A DC-10 at that time, probably replaced by an MD-11.)
Good question.
They’ll need stripping of interior anyway, whereas the Sheik’s from Qatar has a good interior.
A real epistemology circus, new ‘facts’ all the time.
With confusion over ownership, I thought a Sheik did not Qatar though ‘thick as thieves’ there.
Odd that the owner replaced it with one that is larger and newer, little need for larger, perhaps newer one has more range.
The airframe was purchased by a Russian airline, but never delivered. The airline went bankrupt before the build was complete, so the airframe had never left the US. The Qatari royal family has been using the subject airframe for many years, and had stopped using it because of inefficiencies compared to their replacement. The security risk is likely real, even though the intererior and all systems will have to be converted to AFO operational specs, there will always a risk to security.