Wear U drinking? In that case, not Bush's fault, but perhaps Busch's fault.
Posted on 05/22/2006 7:54:31 PM PDT by naturalman1975
He should have shed weight before landing AF One. By tossing the press corp out the door at 10,000 feet.
Noooooooooooo!
Yesssssssss :-)
My guess is that the runway isn't up to the specs it's supposed to be. That said, the VC-25 (Air Force One) is a very heavily modified 747-200. Its maximum takeoff weight is 833,000 lbs (per open records).
The A380's max takeoff weight is 1,208,000 lbs. Guess Canberra isn't going to be getting any of those soon.
I stubbed my big toe on a tree that Rita knocked down while cutting it into sections. I'm pretty sure that wasn't bushes fault.
I remember President Bush landing at my old college on his way to Crawford. If that runway could support AF1 then I can't understand why this one wouldn't.
Besides its not that hard to fix. All they have to do is put some more dirt on top and press it down. hehe
Air Force One weighs surely a lot less than a standard loaded out 747. I could be wrong, but AF1 hardly totes along 450 passengers and their luggage plus food and drink for all of them and and and.
The 747 is an old airframe in near global use.
So if the runway was damaged in Canberra, what are they saying? They can't build a runway right? If this were some new plane, with massive weight and distributing this mass strangely I could see this happening; but a lighter than normal 747? That's like saying my Jeep (standard tires, weight, and driving) damaged the road in Plano TX. That road should hold my Jeep without issue.
Of course they may be talking about ramp space (A more common occurrence that really does happen). But then again this is normally caused by trying to pack in more planes than what the pad can sustain. Is that the planes fault? No. That's a ramp that is inadequate for the demands in aircraft parked on it. Insufficient ramp space and too many aircraft upon it can damage it.
Oh yeah, and leave the Australian countryside splattered with sh!t. That would have gone over real well.:)
Yeh. Not only that, but the wake turbulence caused a typhoon to build up and devastate the Asian coastlines, and the shock of landing caused an earthquake that resulted in an enormous tsunami. I'm pretty sure that Bush is causing sunspots too but I can't pin it on him...yet.
Well, you got the title correct but these dingos wont hunt. Its the tax payers plane. We caught you thinking like Hitlery, didnt we.
Other military and VIP planes had also damaged the runway but....
Fix your own sh!t first. And dont let the United States find out that you knowingly put our Commander-in-Chief in danger again.
Women, children and Aborigines hit the hardest!
Haliburton can repair the runway!
Wear U drinking? In that case, not Bush's fault, but perhaps Busch's fault.
ROFL!!! Excellent point.
But then again, we could have always blamed it on the Dave Matthews Band.
I bet if we get to the heart of this matter we’d see it’s the pad where they park that was damaged. In other words, too many planes and an airport that didn’t invest to meet the demands of growing air traffic. That accentually happens more frequently than most think.
Canberra officials were getting yearly dispensations to 'improve' the runway.
However, the money obviously, never got to actually fixing the runway.
Very similar to the levees in N.O.
The officials there are 'sad to see the dispensations stop', because their party fund just got cut off.
LOL. I guess tossing the reporters over a school of sharks in the ocean would be better.
Actually I was lifting a huge section of log into the front end loader on my dads tractor. It rolled forward and I did my best to jump out of the way before I got cut in half and ended up stubbing my toe.
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