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The President's $223million 'doomsday' plane that protects him against nuclear war, asteroids ....
DailyMail ^ | 6 November 2012 | Hayley Peterson

Posted on 11/10/2012 6:01:53 AM PST by Daffynition

It can withstand a nuclear bomb, asteroid blasts and terror attacks while staying airborne for days without refueling: It's the president's $223 million 'doomsday' plane and it's on standby 24 hours a day, 365 days a year, ready to launch at a minute's notice.

The United States' so-called Doomsday plane is a jumbo jet on steroids, set apart from other Boeing 747's by its radiation-protected shell, 67 antennae and satellite dishes that can communicate with anyone on the ground, advanced heating and cooling systems and loads of other high-tech top-secret gear.

In the case of a national disaster, the plane's four turbofan jet engine can fly for days without refueling and it can reach speeds of up to 620 miles per hour, whereas commercial planes can only fly up to 580 miles per hour.

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To: Daffynition

All of this for a replaceable public servant.


21 posted on 11/10/2012 7:42:50 AM PST by Kirkwood (Zombie Hunter)
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To: Daffynition

It’ll be used too before 2016. The last ride of Barry and his homosexual Choom Crew.

Maybe it is the biological imperative playing out.


22 posted on 11/10/2012 8:03:21 AM PST by onedoug
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Did I just read they have a five billion dollar budget a year for a plane that was last used 11 years about?

Really?

Does it follow the President wherever he goes just in case?


23 posted on 11/10/2012 8:35:17 AM PST by Crimson Elephant
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To: Daffynition
Roughly 30 percent of FEMA head Craig Fugate's job is dealing with the secret continuity programs, according to U.S. News and World Report.** FEMA? Must be a joke.

FEMA probably forgot to put drinking water on the fancy plane.

24 posted on 11/10/2012 8:42:25 AM PST by eartrumpet
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To: Daffynition

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qebqNtHe5Ng
Riders of The Storm. A Dennis Hopper movie of a B29 that hasn’t landed in 20 years. They try to disrupt a Presidental campaign.


25 posted on 11/10/2012 9:47:06 AM PST by Deaf Smith (There is room at the table for all of God's creatures, right next to the mashed potatoes.)
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To: Daffynition

‘Course, if there is no runway in suitable condition to land on it doesn’t matter how many days it can “stay aloft.”

If the US ever finds itself in this condition, a president will be a superfluous appendage.


26 posted on 11/10/2012 11:23:28 AM PST by RobinOfKingston (The instinct toward liberalism is located in the part of the brain called the rectal lobe.)
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To: onedoug; Kirkwood
Hope a final act will be to buzz Manhattan.


27 posted on 11/10/2012 11:55:05 AM PST by Daffynition (Self-respect: the secure feeling that no one, as yet, is suspicious. ~ HLM)
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