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'Doomsday Plane' Would Save President and Joint Chiefs in Apocalypse Scenario
ABC News ^
| June 7, 2011
| MICHAEL MURRAY
Posted on 06/12/2011 8:46:37 PM PDT by sukhoi-30mki
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To: sukhoi-30mki
And why do we know this?? Why does anyone know this? Regardless of the president’s party, why is this public knowledge?
To: DeathBeforeDishonor1
Does it have a golf course?
Will it save Mooshell’s ass too?
To: sukhoi-30mki
“...165,000 pounds of advanced electronics.”
Really? That’s going to take a lot of fuel to keep it up there then. And if it’s a real ‘apocalypse’, where are the refueling planes going to take off from? It would probably be money better spent keeping the whole country safe.
To: sukhoi-30mki
Hope they defund this nonsense someday. The Federal Government has certainly become a thing apart from the people: Government of the Feds, by the Feds, and for the Feds.
I want to see the Obama gear up and lead a few ops FROM THE FRONT in any of the vital, national interest hot spots we’re fighting in at this time. Women in combat? You bet! Put a helmet on Michelle (may not fit in the rest of the uniform) and send her out on Afghan convoys with the rifle and side arms and other ordinances of her choice. Let her eat a few MREs in the sand. Then tell these two bozos to come back and talk to me. Sheesh!
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posted on
06/12/2011 9:05:18 PM PDT
by
dagogo redux
(A whiff of primitive spirits in the air, harbingers of an impending descent into the feral.)
To: sukhoi-30mki
The plane should fit the occupant,the case of the Kenyan mental cripple,would call for a rubber-band powered balsa wood toy.
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posted on
06/12/2011 9:05:47 PM PDT
by
Cheetahcat
( November 4 2008 ,A date that will live in Infamy.)
To: DeathBeforeDishonor1
Does it have a golf course?Yep....and a Baskin-Robbins.
To: Deaf Smith
[It’s a hybrid...that runs on flex fuel...and solar panels... /s.]
Wrong, wrong, wrong. It runs on Bullsh!t which the pResident, congresscritters, and military brass have always been able to produce in sufficient quantity to keep a 747 fueled for day, weeks, months, perhaps even YEARS!
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posted on
06/12/2011 9:07:08 PM PDT
by
43north
(BHO: 50% black, 50% white, 100% RED)
To: sukhoi-30mki
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posted on
06/12/2011 9:07:20 PM PDT
by
JoeProBono
(A closed mouth gathers no feet)
To: sukhoi-30mki
This way, if the world goes nuclear ballistic, Obama can still make his NCAA picks safe and secure.
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posted on
06/12/2011 9:08:11 PM PDT
by
ari-freedom
(All we are saying....is give the military a chance)
To: sukhoi-30mki
To: sukhoi-30mki
Then we can all relax. The President and Joint Chiefs will be safe!
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posted on
06/12/2011 9:09:09 PM PDT
by
garjog
To: sukhoi-30mki
"What goes up . . . must come down. Talkin' 'bout your troubles it's a cryin' sin. Ride a painted pony let the spinnin' wheel spin."
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posted on
06/12/2011 9:10:35 PM PDT
by
GravityFree
(Death is not the end, nor the beginning of the end, but only the end of the beginning.)
To: sukhoi-30mki
Funny, but this almost makes me want to go out in the first wave of whatever apocalypse comes. Last thing in the world I’d want is to be one of the few remaining subjects for emperor sotero to lord over.
Better to be dead.
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posted on
06/12/2011 9:10:35 PM PDT
by
Dr.Zoidberg
(Warning: Sarcasm/humor is always engaged. Failure to recognize this may lead to misunderstandings.)
To: sukhoi-30mki
That plane would end up dropping like a rock. They don’t glide.
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posted on
06/12/2011 9:11:43 PM PDT
by
unkus
To: sukhoi-30mki
"The plane can stay in-flight for days without refueling, a necessity if circumstances demanded the plane's use by the nation's top officials."
Days? I doubt that. Maybe with refueling.
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posted on
06/12/2011 9:11:50 PM PDT
by
upchuck
(Think you know hardship? Ha! Wait till the dollar is no longer the world's reserve currency.)
To: Deaf Smith
The kite string is hard to see in the pictures.....
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posted on
06/12/2011 9:15:04 PM PDT
by
Squantos
(Be polite. Be professional. But have a plan to kill everyone you meet)
To: garjog
“Question: how can it stay airborne for days I wonder? Its a modified 747 and they cant stay up for days.”
1. It has environmentally friendly solar cells mounted on top, and it’s fast enough to stay in sunlight 24 hours a day
OR
2. It has deployable pinwheels that extend from the fuselage attached to generators to run the propellers
OR
3. It is equipped with a Sterling engine and with the Administration on board there is an inexhaustible supply of hot air for operation
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posted on
06/12/2011 9:17:04 PM PDT
by
The Antiyuppie
("When small men cast long shadows, then it is very late in the day.")
To: sukhoi-30mki
Is there room for bo? Or will he be fried like all of OUR pets?
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posted on
06/12/2011 9:17:04 PM PDT
by
garjog
To: DeathBeforeDishonor1
"But did they account for the weight of Michelles fat booty arse?" For that they'll use the cargo version...
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posted on
06/12/2011 9:17:30 PM PDT
by
Hoosier-Daddy
( "It does no good to be a super power if you have to worry what the neighbors think." BuffaloJack)
To: TheCipher
If memory serves, the codename ( callsign ) was Looking Glass.
You are correct - there is nothing "new" about either the E-4A (EC-135J) or E-4B (B747). The first E-4A were delivered in 1974. The E-4B NEACP (National Emergency Airborne Command Post) is designed to survive an EMP with systems intact,[5] and has state-of-the-art direct fire countermeasures. The E-4B uses analog instruments because they are less susceptible to an EMP.[6] The E-4B is capable of operating with a crew of 48 to 112 people, the largest crew of any aircraft in US Air Force history. With in-flight refueling it is capable of remaining airborne for a considerable period (limited only by consumption of the engines' lubricants). In a test flight for endurance, the aircraft remained airborne and fully operational for 35.4 hours. It takes two fully loaded KC-135 tankers to fully refuel an E-4B. The E-4B has three operational decks; upper, middle and lower.
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posted on
06/12/2011 9:20:53 PM PDT
by
Cheerio
(Barry Hussein Soetoro-0bama=The Complete Destruction of American Capitalism)
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