Posted on 09/12/2014 5:51:35 PM PDT by Citizen Zed
AMERICA has a doomsday plane. Actually it has four of them. But the US government does not — repeat, DOES NOT — talk openly about its doomsday planes.
The doomsday plane is like a mirror to Air Force One — a great big flying working office for the president and his or her staff.
But while Air Force One is your everyday, garden variety kind of presidential flying office, the doomsday plane is built and equipped to keep the US government running in the event of a nuclear war or other disaster.
It’s a converted 747 called an E-4B, also referred to as the “National Airborne Operations Center” when it’s called into action, which reportedly last happened on September 11, 2001.
The doomsday plane can reportedly withstand a nuclear bomb, asteroid blasts and terror attacks while staying airborne for days without refuelling.
In fact, the doomsday plane can remain aloft for a week with mid air-refuelling. The only reason it can’t fly longer is because the engine can only be lubricated on the ground.
The doomsday plane has a radiation-protected shell, 67 antennae and satellite dishes, plus a bunch of other hi-tech gear. The communications equipment is housed in the distinctive bubble behind the cockpit.
Yet for all its technical whizzbangery, the plane was once full of clunky 80s technology like the old school computers you see in the lairs of James Bond villains a few decades ago. Much of the old technology has reportedly been pulled out now, but the cockpit is still hardly what you’d call state of the art.
Interestingly, some see that as an advantage in a national emergency. As one officer told the Discovery Channel: “You rely on more parts, it’s more susceptible to breaking”.
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This is odd... I was just reading about the E-4B fleet like last week or the week before.
This plane ensures that the only things left after TEOTWAWKI will be our government and the cockroaches with rhe spread against the cockroaches.
Rest assured, one plane will be ENTIRELY devoted to a lavish post-apocalypse lifestyle for a certain wookie.
The people will beg for the regime to save them from the destruction that the Obamas have wrought, and Michelle’s response will be a petulant...
“NO! It’s all about ME! I need my 15 course Henry VIII meals and all my luxuries paid for with taxpayer dollars. I AM ENTITLED, YOU VERMIN!!!”.
The sense of entitlement that these parasites have is symbolic of their underlying mega-racism. They are militant ‘elite’ black nationalists, meaning that they couldn’t give two **** about regular working blacks, but rather the Torre Neblit, Al Sharpton variety. They are of course the true victims of white privilege!
Also I bet they’re glad Janet Napolitano’s gone. That fat bull dyke would have sent any plane plummeting to the ground.
My friend and past boss and 7 year POW, John Borling was the commander on Looking Glass before he became the SAC DCSOPS.
...AND THEY ARE US...
If it was really “radiation proof”, it would never get off of the ground even with 12 engines, and collapse of its own weight anyway.
One of the first jobs a friend of mine had after he was hired on as a permanent was to go to Omaha and determine the cause of “random” activations of the hanger’s fire suppression foaming system while an E4B was in the hanger. This made a big mess and was expensive. They discovered that contrary to protocol, the technical maintenance person was keying on the plane’s radio transmission system while the plane was in the hanger. The RFI was overwhelming the foam system electronic sensors and turning on the foam.
Does it come with an indoor golf course? I would assume golf clubs as well??
Looking Glass and Nightwatch...
My husband also worked on it at Offutt.
Beyond the universal and obvious answer for every object I view on my computer, a 2 dimension pixilated image, nope.
Personally, I don’t think the .gov self-important psychopaths aren’t worth the infrastructure, cost, and effort to save them. The people will do just fine without them. In fact, they ought to be the first to be incinerated in a nuclear blast.
If they had that exposure just maybe they wouldn’t be such asshat degenerates with BS ideas and policies.
Really that is cool.. It is a cool A/V. I got to work on it in Seattle at Boeing when it came in for retro-fit and at Offutt for a mod!
I think I remember that!!! thanks for the info.
“If it was really “radiation proof”, it would never get off of the ground even with 12 engines, and collapse of its own weight anyway.”
Not the plane per-say; the electronic components. All the chips used in the space program are rad-hardened, built to “space level” specs. Otherwise these chips would fail in very short order. But, if you’re referring to survivability from a direct or near nuclear explosion; then you’re right. Nothing will survive that.
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