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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All of this for a replaceable public servant.
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.
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?
FEMA probably forgot to put drinking water on the fancy plane.
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.
‘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.
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