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USAF Looks to Replace Air Force One With Possible Airbus
Foxnews ^
| 01/12/08
Posted on 01/12/2009 10:37:16 AM PST by Abathar
The U.S. Air Force is looking to replace the president's air force fleet -- possibly with an Airbus, FlightGlobal.com reports.
The USAF has reportedly posted a request for information seeking market sources who can provide three "widebody" aircraft to replace the Boeing VC-25 Air Force One.
The Airbus 380 has been named as a possible alternative, according to FlightGlobal.com.
A 2007 analysis of aircraft options found that it would be more cost-effective to replace the VC-25 rather than attempt to modernize it.
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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: aerospace; airbus; airforceone; usaf
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Bravo Sierra!!
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posted on
01/12/2009 10:37:16 AM PST
by
Abathar
To: Abathar
Is this at Zero’s request?
Will Pelosi get the 747?
/s
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posted on
01/12/2009 10:40:04 AM PST
by
Loud Mime
(Things were better when cigarette companies could advertise and lawyers could not....LM)
To: Abathar
Times are tight folks.
We’re all cutting back and making sacrifices.
I think it’s time we consider replacing AF1 with a bus pass.
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posted on
01/12/2009 10:40:34 AM PST
by
End Times Sentinel
(In Memory of my Dear Friend Henry Lee II)
To: Abathar
You’d think the USAF would have learned by now. And it certainly won’t be acceptable after the inauguration to have POTUS flying around in a French product.
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posted on
01/12/2009 10:40:34 AM PST
by
tgusa
(Gun control: deep breath, sight alignment, squeeze the trigger ....)
To: Abathar
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posted on
01/12/2009 10:40:50 AM PST
by
Red Badger
(I was sad because I had no shoes to throw, until I met a reporter who had no feet.....)
To: Abathar; SkyDancer
Does he really need three? I’m sure he can get buy with a twin turbo prop.
Thoughts from a pilot?
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posted on
01/12/2009 10:42:27 AM PST
by
wastedyears
(In Canada, Santa says "Ho Ho, eh?")
To: Owl_Eagle
I think it’s time we consider replacing AF1 with a bus pass. If public transport is all it's cracked up to be, you'd think this would be an idea whose time has come.
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posted on
01/12/2009 10:43:33 AM PST
by
Dead Corpse
(What would a free man do?)
To: Red Badger
Soul plane - How politically incorrect of you!
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posted on
01/12/2009 10:44:02 AM PST
by
Abathar
(Proudly posting without reading the article carefully since 2004)
To: Abathar
If I were elected President, Air Force One would be an AC-130.
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posted on
01/12/2009 10:44:28 AM PST
by
Joe 6-pack
(Que me amat, amet et canem meum)
To: Abathar
These are very low time aircraft. There’s no reason to get rid of them.
To: Red Badger
I forgot to add - Well done!
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posted on
01/12/2009 10:44:57 AM PST
by
Abathar
(Proudly posting without reading the article carefully since 2004)
To: wastedyears
If it ain't Boeing , I ain't going
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posted on
01/12/2009 10:45:49 AM PST
by
Robe
(Rome did not create a great empire by talking, they did it by killing all those who opposed them)
To: Abathar
If Obama wants Air Force One to be of foreign make, a Tupolev-144 SST would be the perfect plane for him, his staff and several members of Congress to take trips in. I think there is still one left.
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posted on
01/12/2009 10:48:50 AM PST
by
Dixie Yooper
(Ephesians 6:11)
To: wastedyears
I'm not a pilot ... but I'll suggest this:
anyway. Gawdawful waste of a perfectly good aircraft ... but what the heck. He has to have something, right?
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posted on
01/12/2009 10:50:15 AM PST
by
ArrogantBustard
(Western Civilization is Aborting, Buggering, and Contracepting itself out of existence.)
To: Dixie Yooper
Yup. It was on loan to NASA for a number of years as a supersonic research testbed.
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posted on
01/12/2009 10:50:21 AM PST
by
Army Air Corps
(Four fried chickens and a coke)
To: Abathar
What kind of retard even considers an aircraft that can only land at a few airports? Even the brightest future plans don't put the A-380 at more than a handful of airports.
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posted on
01/12/2009 10:50:46 AM PST
by
Hillarys Gate Cult
(The man who said "there's no such thing as a stupid question" has never talked to Helen Thomas.)
To: Abathar
So the government would buy a European made plane? Aren’t we citizens supposed to buy American cars to help out The Big Three? Boeing should ask for some bailout money, then someone in DC would react by nixing the Airbus plane in favor of a Boeing....
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posted on
01/12/2009 10:50:55 AM PST
by
seamusnh
To: Abathar
How many years did the 707 last as AF1? Wasn’t Reagan’s only flight on the new 747 AF1 his flight home after Bush won? It’s not that old, hell make him fly on a DC3.
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posted on
01/12/2009 10:51:50 AM PST
by
Lx
To: Abathar
Well it would be fun to tell the press to go to the back of the bus.
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posted on
01/12/2009 10:52:32 AM PST
by
dblshot
To: Abathar
The Soviet Tu-95 is much more suitable for Obama...
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