Posted on 06/12/2011 8:46:37 PM PDT by sukhoi-30mki
'Doomsday Plane' Would Save President and Joint Chiefs in Apocalypse Scenario
By MICHAEL MURRAY
June 7, 2011
In the event of nuclear war, a powerful meteor strike or even a zombie apocalypse, the thoroughly protected doomsday plane is ready to keep the president, secretary of defense, Joint Chiefs of Staff and other key personnel in the air and out of danger. It may not deflect a Twitter photo scandal, but it can outrun a nuclear explosion and stay in the air for days without refueling.
The flight team for the E-4B, its military codename, sleeps nearby and is ready to scramble in five minutes. It was mobilized in the tumultuous hours after planes crashed into the World Trade Center, the Pentagon and southern Pennsylvania on 9/11.
"If the command centers that are on the ground in the United States have a failure of some sort, or attack, we immediately get airborne. We're on alert 24/7, 365," Captain W. Scott "Easy" Ryder, Commander, NAOC, told ABC News' Diane Sawyer as she traveled to Afghanistan with Secretary of Defense Robert Gates on the apocalypse-proof plane. "Constantly there's at least one alert airplane waiting to get airborne."
ll E-4B aircraft are assigned to the 55th Wing, Offutt Air Force Base, Neb. The modified 747s can travel at speeds up to 620 miles per hour, 40 miles per hour faster than their commercial counterparts.
The $223 million aircraft is outfitted with an electromagnetic pulse shield to protect its 165,000 pounds of advanced electronics. Thermo-radiation shields also protect the plane in the event of a nuclear strike.
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What’s the dog doing? Poor dog.
.................ll E-4B aircraft are assigned to the 55th Wing.................................
Do I read that right??
Eleven of these aircraft at $223 million each:
$2.5 billion in aircraft sitting on the ground awaiting the disbursement of Zer0, Wookie, then all the cabinet and spouses; then all the czars and spouses; then all the congresscritters and spouses; then all the quasi governmental goons like Bernankie and others; then who else.
All while us schleps have to put up with the radiation and death that they brought unto us.
Wonderful, just F**ing wonderful!
My wedding’s best man’s sister served most of her Navy CT career on Lookingglass.
I know a few cities that already look like that.
They must have some of those Zero Point Energy Modules (ZPMs) that they got from the Ancients, either by traveling to Atlantis via the Stargate, or by taking them from the wreckage of the alien craft found at Roswell.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qebqNtHe5Ng
Here’s a B29 that didn’t land for 20 years.
What makes you think he would survive?
Four 747s
Seven C135s
We had a C-135 Looking Glass at Lajes in the Azores. We were told if you ever saw it moving, kiss your ass goodbye. There was also one at Offutt AFB, Nebraska. Don’t remember where the rest of them were stationed.
They are stationed around the world so a General Command staff can retaliate in case the US is wiped out in a nuclear attack.
I am not at all comforted with the idea that 0bama can escape a disaster, possibly of his making, while the rest of us are left behind.
If I remember correctly, the E-4B’s can completely take over the functions of what used to be SAC Headquarters near Omaha, NE and the NORAD Cheyenne Mountain command center in case they are attacked. The Russians had similar command planes with modified Il-18’s and Il-62’s but they couldn’t stay in the air as long as the E-4B’s.
Biblical Prophesy? (anti-christ)
He’ll have to do with shooting hoops through the Joint of Staff’s arms.
Didn’t they used to call this plane, “Kneecap”
Looks like the doggy is about to ‘Larry Sinclair’ hussein!
Hardly! The damn thing can’t fly forever..... =.=
What’s that joke. First the #1 engine died, then the #2, #3 and then... the #4. Luckily the pilot was able to get the #1 going again in order to land. I thought we were going to be stuck up in the air forever!
They can invent all the gadgets they want. They cannot escape G-D’s wrath.
So that’s what that 9/11 mystery plane was!!!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AxUvBWoHgBs
also has large windmills on top...
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