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Trump Plans to Accept Plane from Qatar

What has stopped me in my tracks on this one is how much enterprise Qatar and the USA are involved in. It's not like the DOD is not radically familiar with that country. In ways it would seem like a gift from a friend you helped refinance their home, built their business from scratch with, and orchastrated much of the schooling for the kids. It seems like our ties are extremely active with Qatar. And this is the real world picture. While the one the left paints is doubt, fear, angst, bad vibes, and any other gift of good cheer that party seems to be about. I like how Buzz on X put it...


Buzz Patterson (Best NYT Selling Author/Former Carrier of the Nuke Football/Half a Million Followers on X):
I’m going to try one last time. The Qatar B-747 was built in the US by Boeing. They are offering a newer 747 to replace one of the two current AF-1s that have been flying for 40 years. Which are tired and need to be replaced. The wing based at Andrews has also purchased aircraft from other countries in the past which are currently flying our VP and senior government officials. This is NOT new.Qatar is offering the jet to the US military, not Donald Trump. The DOD contractor is based in the US, in fact my dad (a retired Air Force general) used to work for them. They are, not unironically, also working to upgrade the FAA technology as we speak. You know, Newark and elsewhere. They will get the aircraft and perform all of the security and the installation of the systems that AF-1 requires to safely move our president around the world. Not the Qatari’s. And you and I will pay for that but not the $400 million the 747 would normally cost. I could tell you exactly what is required to modify the AF-1 for safe flight but that is Top Secret and I’d have to kill you.This AF-1 will serve the sitting president, whether they be Republican or Democrat until Boeing gets their **** together to complete the new, upcoming improved 747s that started under Obama, was renegotiated under Trump, and was completely ignored by the Biden administration. It’s looking like 2029 to 2030 for delivery at the soonest. I love X but sometimes the “sky is falling” conspiracy crap grows tiresome. A little knowledge goes a long way. Having flown on the current AF-1s 100 hundred times, I have intimate knowledge.
I'm not sure that the point of this whole thing isn't to light a fire under Boeing to get the stupid plane finished. I tmakes them look super incompetant (which, with their embrace of DEI and some of their most recent failures isn't that hard to do...) 15+ years to finish one plane, that hopefully will keep all its bolts? :tsk:
 
Done and done :apost: :ban:

Pentagon says it has accepted Boeing jet from Qatar that will be used for Trump​

Updated on: May 21, 2025 / 1:37 PM EDT / CBS News
"Washington — The Defense Department said Wednesday it has accepted a Boeing jet from Qatar that will be retrofitted and used to transport President Trump.
Pentagon spokesman Sean Parnell said in a statement that Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth accepted the Boeing 747 "in accordance with all federal rules and regulations."
"The Department of Defense will work to ensure proper security measures and functional-mission requirements are considered for an aircraft used to transport the President of the United States," Parnell said."

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