Quartz: The new Air Force One will be a leftover from a bankrupt Russian airline
Both “new” Air Force Ones will be “used cars”,
previously "driven" by Vlad, Russia's "Czar".
A misinformed rant from
tweeter-in-chief
forced USAF to seek relief
from price of new aircraft from Boeing.
Boeing complied, all the while knowing
the final cost would be the same
as if they'd built two new
airplanes.
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| Boeing 747-8 in Transaero livery |
(How does this make America great?
An airframe designed in nineteen sixty-eight!?
Why not, for cost efficiency,
use Air Space Museum's antique DC-3!
In keeping with this — really, Good Lord! —
must the president's car be a Model T Ford?)
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| Douglas DC-3 in Eastern livery (National Air And Space Museum) |
Happily, there is another solution.
to buy two NEW planes direct from Ilyushin:
IL-96's, exactly like Putin's.
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| Ilyushin IL-96 in Russian government livery |