Showing posts with label Airforce One. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Airforce One. Show all posts

Wednesday, February 28, 2024

Biden taking precautions on tripping up stairs

Biden adds extra Secret Service agent to Air Force One staircase to avoid falling

President Joe Biden has been assigned an additional Secret Service agent to stand at the foot of the stairs leading to Air Force One as a precautionary measure, given his reported instances of stumbling while ascending the aircraft's stairs.

The decision comes in response to concerns over Biden's physical stability, as he has reportedly tripped and fallen on multiple occasions while boarding Air Force One.

President Biden has been avoiding climbing up the sometimes-wobbly 18-foot staircase that is trucked over to the plane's upper door. More often than not, he is using a much shorter and sturdier set of stairs that fold out from the belly of the plane.

Read about it...

Tuesday, October 31, 2023

Boeing losing a fortune on a pair of Air Force One Aircrafts

Boeing has lost roughly $2 billion in Air Force One deal

In 2018, Boeing signed a contract with the federal government to build a pair of aircraft that would serve as Air Force One.

Yet as Business Insider reported on Friday, that deal has turned into a financial disaster for the aerospace giant. Company has lost roughly $2 billion since taking on Air Force One project.

Boeing's third-quarter earnings report was released last week, and it showed that the company lost $482 million on construction of the two 747-200B jumbo jets.
Donald J. Trump @realDonaldTrump
Boeing is building a brand new 747 Air Force One for future presidents, but costs are out of control, more than $4 billion. Cancel order! 8:52 AM · Dec 6, 2016
No one expected Bidenomics! The company attributed the losses to higher-than-estimated manufacturing costs, engineering changes, labor instability, and negotiations with suppliers. And they had a fixed contract under Trump. The company has pushed the delivery date of the two jets back by another two years to 2026.

Read about it...

Tuesday, March 7, 2023

He keeps on tripping

President Joe Biden tripped again Sunday on the steps leading up to Air Force One, potentially putting his 80-year-old body in danger of a severe tumble that could hospitalize him.

He did the same thing in Poland 12 days ago.

Despite the lengthy steps up to the presidential plane, neither the Secret Service nor the first lady accompanied the president when he made his latest stumble as he prepared to depart Maxwell Air Force Base in Montgomery, Alabama. Take a look:

Friday, December 9, 2016

Donald Trump - The Master of Negotiation


Boeing CEO Dennis Muilenburg promised President-elect Donald Trump in a phone call Tuesday that the company will work to limit the cost of the new Air Force One after Trump threatened to cancel plans for at least two new presidential jets.

Read about it...and Donald Trump, the master of negotiation.

Wednesday, January 2, 2013

Obama beat it out of town


Obama is now back in Hawaii...he couldn't wait to beat it out of town and spend more money...his favorite thing to do.

The U.S. Air Force provides the most current numbers of $181,757 per flight hour. Travel time for Air Force One direct from Washington D.C. to Hawaii is about 9 hours or $1,635,813 each way for a total of $3,271,622 for the round trip to Hawaii and back.

Chump change. Unbelievable!