why is AF1 still a 747?
>>65260843What do you suggest, the A-10?
>>65260862nah I mean 747 is great and iconic, but it's an ancient passenger jet.
>>65260871The Boeings built after them keep falling out of the sky.
>>65260843trump probably begged the qataris for it and they gave it to him for free
>>65260843Remember you're talking about a country that keeps ancient shit around like A-10's, B52's, fucking aircraft carriers, like they're useful or something. Why would a 747 not be expected?
>>65260843FOUR FUCKING ENGINES FOR REDUNDANCY AND SPACE FOR ALL THE GIZMOS AND HAULING AROUND THE PRESS.STOP MAKING THIS THREAD.
>>65260843because they need all the lifting they can get power to get Trump and his whole obese cabinet in the air! lol! gotem
>>65261145This. We covered this in the last thread.>>65260843Note that AF1 is also an emergency NCA command post, and the NEACP E-4B is also being replaced by... a 787-8.
>>65261167Y'all niggers need to go to /pol or put a bullet in your head if all you're going to do is spout your TDS shit. Its the same thing day after day and its boring.
>>65261192>TDSThis is all you can do
>>65261192Trump wants to surrender to Iran when they were losing because he can’t take the heat. Sorry, you lost. Your “fell for it again” award will be in the mail and the next serious president will try to clean up your mess.
the 747 doesn't feel old to me, but maybe it's just me getting old
>>65261197We haven't had a serious president since JFK, we are deep into clown world, and there is no escape.
>>65260862It should be a fast attack nuclear sub. Call it the Navy 1. A plane can only fly for so long and a 747 is a sitting duck in todays aerial threats. The President should have a VTOL plane ready at all times at the Whore, I mean, White House. The plane should take him to a heavily defended submarine pen where he can board the Navy 1 and run, I mean relocate to a safer place.
>>65260871Cant reinvent the wheel, the basic design is good enough and like 90% of improvements to aviation since then comes from the electronic side of things, turbines, etc. rather than the frame itself >>65261105Aircraft carriers are obviously pretty fucking useful when the Chinese and French are also still investing into them; get back once you invent a fighter jet capable of landing and taking off from water
>Call it the Navy 1Since whatever VC25 the President is on becomes AF1 then, by the same token, whatever sub the President is aboard would become Navy 1.The problem being that nuke boats are far too useful and expensive to just have hanging around a sub pen should he ever need it. Also, since AF1 is a command post with the radios to match doing the same with a sub would kind of negate the stealth of a submarine.
>>65260843Only retards and fags, fly with just 2.
>>65261228>the 747 doesn't feel old to meThey were still using a 707 until the nineties.
>>65260843You have another four engine superheavy passenger plane built in America on standby?
>>652627392 engined faggotry.
>>65260892yeah the VC-25 is probably unironically a better aircraft than the 747-8not the least because things like composite wings are meant to improve fuel economy one way or another (mostly weight savings) which literally doesn't matter with a presidential jet.and of course, the fact that they were manufactured before the merger with McDonald-Douglas means they weren't put together by complete retards
>>65262838Also before the invasion into WA.
