I’m definitely opposed to giving immigrants a free 747 to cross the boarder. That would spoil them and destroy their work ethic 
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It’s a goodwill gift from a middle eastern ally - it would be foolish not to accept this gesture…
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It’s not at all obvious that our Orange Julius Caesar won’t still be using AF1 four years from now, Ron.
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Honestly, the topic under discussion is shocking yet you choose to ignore it and instead wag a finger at the Editor’s grammar? Maybe a private note to him would have been wiser.
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I’ve just been trying to wrap my head around what a Trump Presidential Library looks like. Maybe a giant smart phone scrolling through his Truth Social account? Perhaps his art collection: statues of himself, AI pictures of himself as Pope, as a Star Wars character, or a GI Joe wannabe (with special orthotics for his bone spurs)? And in the GREAT HALL OF TRUMP’S DIPLOMATIC UTTERANCES, the words, “Vladimir, STOP!”, etched in ten-foot letters in a marble wall.
I will gladly pay the $1,500 (coincidentally, what’s left of my 401K) for the price of admission.
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And what’s the next bribe? A donated private resort in the Pacific to act as a remote White House? Just when one thinks the bottom of the moral and ethics barrel has been reached with MAGA (Morons Are Governing America) there’s an new low waiting tomorrow…
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Grift gotta grift ! The most blatant grift in American History !
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???
The question is possibility of bribing, NOT trade nor immigration.
The US has laws against gifts, to prevent straight bribing.
(But contributing to someone’s favourite charity?)
Would Canada offering to become 5st state of USA be a prohibited gift? :-o)
Reminds me of a flap in northern WA state years ago, locals claiming US was about to invade Canada.
US Army denied that.
Finally local sheriff called Army and said “Look, clean cut young males with new gear are not hunters.”
Army fessed up, just a convenient place to practice or train, c/w a campground.
“So the fact that the Defense Department is getting a GIFT, FREE OF CHARGE, of a 747 aircraft to replace the 40 year old Air Force One, temporarily, in a very public and transparent transaction, so bothers the Crooked Democrats that they insist we pay, TOP DOLLAR, for the plane. Anybody can do that! The Dems are World Class Losers!!! MAGA,” Trump wrote.
I had no idea that there were so many TDS victims reading AVweb, or at least so vociferous.
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Great question and other than all the objects of self-adulation, I suspect the actual number of tomes would be fairly limited: Goodnight Moon, third grade picture book translations of Mein Kampf and Marx’s Manifesto, The Plot Against the King by Kash Patel and, of course, reams of classified documents removed from the first “administration.” And by the way, the anticipated admission price has now risen to $5,000 per person due to a soon to be enacted tariff on all public building admissions!
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Yeah, there be a good mix of posters here usually. But you may want to consider that TDS, BDS, ODS or POS are not real things, and don’t affect real people. Just sayin’.
They’re imaginary, like the Boogeyman or Santa Claus or Stable Genius.
Accordingly, it gives the finger-pointer a bad look, redundantly revealing to everyone that one would rather live in a distorted make-believe land instead of objective reality. And as pilots, is that really a choice we have?
Maybe comment on the subject of discussion. You never know, our ‘Fertilization President’ who intends to ‘protect women whether they like it or not’ might hear about it and even put it on Truth Social! 
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You rather conveniently ignored the topic 
You have to hand it to Donald. He certainly intends to set the bar for “most corrupt president in history” so high that it will never be surpassed.
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Deteriorating attention span, Arthur? The USA made plenty of 747s in 15 years. These are VC-25s, and in fact are spawned from 747s that have already been made. Your criticism of the conversion timeline seems pretentious if we assume you don’t know what goes into the making of a VC-25, albeit these days we have to consider the not negligible probability that you were accidentally included in a Signal meeting invitation to discuss the AF-1 project’s details.
P.S.: We can’t be that impotent if we can make the rest of the world laugh in alarm, bewilderment and thankful relief at the same time.
The sensational news headlines and scandalous articles by which you educate yourself are not Boeing’s track record, they’re not even the truth. They are the desperate, unethical efforts by media reporters to keep the traditional news industry from flatlining and being completely wiped out by the ubiquitous and much more effective Citizen Reporter, made feasible by the internet and multi-media capable handheld computing devices.
Boeing’s track record is the airplanes that fly each day, safely carrying millions of people and cargo, without crashing due to a design or manufacturing defect. The two MAX crashes were due to the pilots not being trained on a runaway trim procedure. That can’t be called pilot error, but the official investigations never explored why they didn’t receive that training—because they were under political pressure to not blame the airlines or local aviation agency and the American news media had already created a number of fallacies in order to blame Boeing—it made for a local and much more interesting story.
Likewise, Boeing didn’t strand two astronauts on the ISS… the spacecraft met the operational requirements to safely conduct the return trip, but NASA officials, afraid of the irrational public reaction if the astronauts were onboard and there was even the slightest glitch, abandoned science and engineering and made the craft return autonomously, and empty—thus stranding the astronauts.
Such is the “stupid” yet intimidating power of the people when they are led by a lying news media. Fortunately, there still are those who really are technical experts and can see through the charades put on by—and because of—the corrupt news media. And they know they can trust Boeing with one of the most complex and secrecy-sensitive projects in the world.
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Who is going to convert this “gift?”
Won’t be Air Force One as the USAF will not accept it!!!
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Onerous security clearance requirements for workers doing the conversions of 747s into VC-25s is holding up the work?!
That seems so incongruous with this administration’s history of handling classified information… storing it in unmarked boxes in random unsecured areas, refusing to return it, showing/discussing it with Tom, Dick and Harry, inviting strangers and spouses to meetings discussing it, etc.
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