Posted on 02/21/2005 8:14:53 PM PST by CHARLITE
This message and the pictures are from a friend of a friend of mine who is a retired Air Force Lt.General.
He wrote: I toured this aircraft as it was being "remodeled" in Waco.
Yes, the sinks are solid gold and one of them is Lalique crystal. The Sultan bought the aircraft for roughly $100M; had it flown to Waco, brand-new, had the interior completely removed; and had the folks at E-Systems(now Raytheon) install $120M worth of improvements and outside.
I've gained entrance to nuclear weapons storage areas much easier than gaining entrance to see this airplane.
To make the interior look bigger?
Sorta. The ceilings appear to be low--kinda' like a 1950's travel trailer. The mirrors make the ceiling feel higher & the space larger.
Have you ever seen the interior of Burj al-Arab in Dubai? The Muslim vision of "opulence," when backed up by wads of $$$, can produce some truly ghastly stuff.
Riiiiight. The fact that the mirrors are mounted over the beds has no significance, I'm sure.
There is a mirror over the seating lounge as well.
Yeah, I saw that just a few seconds ago, looking over the pics again.
Still, I'm unwilling to give the perverted old sod the benefit of the doubt on this one. We all know why the mirrors are there. <nudge, nudge...wink, wink>
Air Force I President GHW Bush era. (Designing a good looking ceiling is obviously a challenge. I'm supposing that the stresses an aircraft undergoes dictates a paneled approach.)
How can something so expensive look so horrid.
If someone wants 24-K gold bathroom fixtures, why not? If I had the money, I'd do it, too, and I could care less if people think it's "personal opulance" or self-indulgence... It would be MY money, MY bathroom, and no one else's business...
You sound like a liberal bemoaning this...
Do you see how the wealthy in America use the government to their own advantage and to continously make it more difficult for lower and middle class people to become wealthy?
Evidence is overwhelming, IMO.
It is very difficult for an individual to get health insurance at a rate even close to that which one can get working for a corporation. (Working for a corporation only produces wealth for the executives and stockholders, not the employees.)
Illegals are allowed to flood in here and enjoy the fruits of American tax dollars at the expense of our children and our neighbors.
Small farms have been run out of existence in favor of corporate farms.
Our universities are being used to educate foreign students at the expense of our own children, most of whom are slaves to elementary and secondary public schools.
The McCain Feingold bill shields the politicians from legitimate criticism, making incumbents even more difficult to beat.
and on, and on, and on... but don't confuse what I'm saying for some leftist argument in favor of socialism. What I'm saying is that our markets are not free enough, that in fact the wealthy are rigging the game in their own favor via their bought and paid for legislators and judges.
Cool plane. I wonder if that could be done to a Boeing 777-200LR. Then you would have a real plane.
My point was that the entire world is blaming the United States for "discontent," poverty, lack of opportunities in Muslim countries, when IMO, it would seem to me that the rampant "resentment" of those populations against America is a bit misplaced, when their top tier literally live like kings, while the common folk scratch out an existence.
Again, I'm only inquiring as to why America is to blame for socio-economic conditions in 3rd world countries when their own leaders live so lavishly and ostentatiously. Why are the "life styles of the rich and famous" in otherwise brutally repressed societies, America's fault?
Are we the cause of Robert Mugabe's reckless, brutal destruction of Zimbabwe's once flourishing agricultural productivity, while he and his chosen inner circle live in splendor?
It doesn't seem like a "liberal" to be asking such questions. I was born into a strongly conservative Republican family, and have been a defender of those principles throughout my life. I'm simply quite enraged at the way in which everyone blames America for the inequities in mostly Muslim non-democratic, autocratic nations.
Char :)
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