Air Force One Upgrade

Maybe the USAF and C-in-C should obey the "sequestration" mandate(s) and keep "...driving it/them until the wheels fall off..." like everybody ELSE has been made to do?

Air Force 1.1?

This is ridiculous!

How can two airplanes cost $5 to 6 billion, or more, and take 8-10 years to put into service?

And who says the support team will be reduced from 100 to 20 again? I don't believe that either.

B-52's have a service life of 35,000 flight hours.

Some 747-200 are still flying after 100,000 flight hours.

Personally, I thing that every member of Congress should be term limited to two terms, just like POTUS is.

They all campaign incessantly so we would not know the difference, except for less bribery, maybe.

Now if you think either of these things will come to pass, I can get you some cheap land on the moon.

"Now if you think either of these things will come to pass, I can get you some cheap land on the moon."

No thanks. Why would I want some land on a moon when I am already master of my own reality.

And make them go through the same TSA lines too

Hhehehhehehe, that would be priceless!

You mean that the TSA agents get to pat-down Moochelle? If so, we finally get to know if she's a Tranny after all......brahahhahahhahhahha!!!!!!!!

Seems a little extravagant given the current economic climate. Other things are screaming for that money...

But hey....some of our mates and family members will have proper jobs and training out of it....so that's good.

Security and safety are probably part of the concerns and naturally the anti missile systems for these aircraft are probably also a sizable part of the cost.....its still safer per mile to fly than drive on roads....any roads.

Not forgetting the time factor for driving.

As well as having to shut down a road system (as they did to Frankfurt when President Bush visited Germany some years ago), causing major jams and delays for the local people.....

Also, remember, airframes weaken over the years due to flying very high and cabin pressure changes...though Boeing are quite good in that area it would seem.

Whether or not a majority in the USA feel that the next incumbent will be worth this huge amount of money, probably will rely on who they voted for, as obviously Obarma will be long gone when it happens.....

Political opinions of today will be of little help in deciding either way, but I can imagine that Boeing may eventually have problems with spares for 25 year old aircraft (like having to go to Arizona to take something off a parked aircraft maybe?)

Best of luck either way.....

I can't understand why they would want to go bigger. It would be important to be able to put down in more places in the event of a problem. A bigger plane will have a limited number of airfields that it can land on. But hey! i don't give a rats. Just hope our P.M. is onboard when the shit hits the big fan.

We'd need to go back farther to get to the REAL truth.

Bush's vacations costly - Midland Daily News

The problem is that W. wasn't thrifty. He was the most expensive vacation president in US history. Not only did Bush spend more days on vacation than any other president, but he used Air Force One more often while on vacation than any other president.

During Bush's two terms, the cost of operating Air Force One ranged from $56,800 to $68,000 an hour. Bush used Air Force One 77 times to go to his ranch in Crawford, TX. Using the low end cost of $56,800, Media Matters calculated that each trip to Crawford cost taxpayers $259,687 each time, and $20 million total for Bush's ranch flights.

And you're basing your LibTard argument on that Lefty-leaning Trash Rag "Media Matters"? They've been proven time and again to be highly bias. Need I say more? SMH

Let's just say, for argument sake, that G.W. Bush did have those vacations OVER an 8 year period. By contrast, Emperor Barry the Tyrannical, has almost surpassed the travel volume, but with incurred costs much more higher then Bush's, all within 6.25 years. That says a whole hell of a lot... And then there was the all-expense paid vacation of Africa, where spending Taxpayer's funds was no object. That one alone Fries my Rice Krispies.

And how about jetting his dog to Martha's Vineyard on a C-17 Globemaster III two summer's ago? What, the damn dog isn't good enough to fly on Air Farce One with the rest of Regime? That boner really cost the Taxpayers Big time.

BRAHAHAHHAHAHHAHHAHAAAAAAAAA!!!!!!!! That's all I'm going to say on this matter, other than to say what a stack of Baloney....

Whatever.

I don't like Obama.

I do like the truth.

Prove me wrong, don't just blather.

Never mind, we're getting off topic.

At the very least, I think AF-1 should be equipped with at least one ejection lounge.

With no parachutes! LOL

2023 - 2015 = 7