Posted on 11/18/2016 11:40:53 AM PST by RummyChick
Well ...
That might be pretty cool - if it's a Cessna A-37 Dragonfly.
At least the next White House won't be built by slaves.../sarc
Considering how many miles Obama has put on AF1 flying to and from exotic locale vacations it’s no wonder the life expectancy has lasted this long.
“False.
747s are not 70 years old.”
Sure they are.
Most people don’t remember that Truman flew in Air Force 1; (a 747 )to watch Hitler sign the document for Germany’s surrender on May 7, 1945.
Obama family wore both planes out with their constant vacation travels around the world for eight years?
70 years old? Quite a trick for an aircraft that started development 51 years ago.
Nothing puts you off to an article than a factually incorrect statement in the very first sentence.
Only if it’s provided by the Air Force. It’s also important to remember that Air Force One is only Air Force One if the president is on board, it has a different designation otherwise. Which became logistically interesting when Nixon resigned, technically he was president until Ford was sworn, but he went straight onto AF1 and was flying to CA when that happened, so the plane changed designation in flight.
Next we will hear that the Marine 1 is broken too.
Yep, I’m sure Harry Truman flew one to Wake Island.
This plane didn’t start flying until Bush 41 and Reagan, Carter, Ford, Nixon, LBJ and JFK flew in the old 707 version of AF1 for many years.
You are right the 747 hasn’t been around near that long. How does these idiots called journalists keep getting paid for putting out such unresearched garbage.
Bammy is going to plug up all the toilets and superglue all the seat recliner buttons.
Sabotage is probably what they’re concerned about in both AF1 and the WH.
Its a Fokker Trimotor.
They must mean that it has been the role of the Air Force to transport the president. The Air Force will be celebrating 70 years in 2017.
Boy, you said it!
Author thinks that, if you take the primary AF-1 and the backup AF-1, each 35 years old, then you get 70 years. Who says they don’t teach math these days?
Will Obama get this one for his Museum ?
Trump should abolish Air Force One. And every time he doesn’t fly somewhere, make a big announcement specifying how much money is being saved.
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