Joe Biden’s admin had already been considering buying the plane. This didn’t come out of thin air.
Yes, you say thank you. Even if you scrap it once it arrives, even if congress says that our country can’t keep it. You say thank you. Y’all sound like you have no idea about Arab customs.
Last time Joe insulted SA, we had four years of higher oil prices. Accept that we may not know the whole picture.
The “stripping” would likely be the equivalent of what is called a D check. This involves completely removing the interior and x-raying every panel of the aircraft, looking for cracks. I assume that it is a low time aircraft so fatigue cracks would not be present, but this would show any security concerns.
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Good thing we aren’t Arabs, and there’s no Arabic customs in the Constitution.
For the short period of use after more protection is added and before Trump leaves office the interior would suffice. Stripping it out to search for bugs would be very costly.
Meanwhile Trump already has two 747s that function, and two replacements being made by Boeing once hey find enough production workers eligible for and granted top secret security clearance.
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Not sure a D check would x-ray everywhere, simple structure wouldn’t need that.
Perhaps X-ray can be done without removing interior. And there are devices to detect RF and acoustic emissions.