Anyway, America first.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5723564&forum_id=2#48921269)

one for the big guy

one to tip da sneaka man

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5723564&forum_id=2#48921797)

https://www.politico.com/news/2025/05/11/qatar-calls-jet-gift-trump-inaccurate-00341084

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5723564&forum_id=2#48922778)

democrats? please

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5723564&forum_id=2#48921587)

asserts otherwise with confidence

smart

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5723564&forum_id=2#48921624)

your poasting speaks for itself. you are an absolute dimwit. of course, you wouldn't be able to see this but everyone else does. do you not find it strange that whenever someone comments about you it's to point out your stupidity?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5723564&forum_id=2#48922069)

my stupidity is this

israel should fuck up gaza at least until the hostages are freed

you and faggeratttt have a lot in common. let that speak for itself.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5723564&forum_id=2#48922091)

Perpetually Irate Highly Tribalistic 95 IQ Muslim Turd: "LMAO @ conturded birdshits, what a fucking joke in b4 they rush into this thread to try and shamelessly defend this insane corruption and explain how ackkkkshually this is NBD LJL"

Poaster #2: "Uh, any comments on the fact that the country which is apparently doing the shameless bribing is filled with Perpetually Irate Highly Tribalistic 95 IQ Muslim Tur--"

Perpetually Irate Highly Tribalistic 95 IQ Muslim Turd: "So what? Who cares? Oh gee wow, 'bribery,' oh wow yep not sure if you noticed this before but that's literally how the whole world works you huge fucking naive retard, big whoop oh what a shocking news story."

Actual LMAO at this mindblowing turn-on-a-dime Jewish-style spin -- sometimes life comes at you fast, huh Ahmed?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5723564&forum_id=2#48922270)

*thousand yard stare*

You’re stupid as shit, man.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5723564&forum_id=2#48922900)

(Brilliant sandnigger who definitely understood the point of my poast)

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5723564&forum_id=2#48922975)

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5723564&forum_id=2#48921368)

this is a tribute. favor is being sought but the upper hand is on the other side.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5723564&forum_id=2#48921395)

it's doubly hilarious for anyone connected with israel to comment on this.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5723564&forum_id=2#48921399)

Anticipating those questions, sources told ABC News that lawyers for the White House counsel's office and the Department of Justice drafted an analysis for Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth concluding that is legal for the Department of Defense to accept the aircraft as a gift and later turn it over to the Trump library, and that it does not violate laws against bribery or the Constitution's prohibition (the emoluments clause) of any U.S. government official accepting gifts "from any King, Prince or foreign State."

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5723564&forum_id=2#48921489)

The primary aircraft used in the current Air Force One fleet includes two aging Boeing 747-200 jumbo jets that have been operational since 1990. The Air Force contract with Boeing to replace those aircraft has been riddled with delays and cost overruns.

The original contract was signed in 2018, but as of last year, Boeing anticipated the aircraft would not be ready until 2029, after Trump leaves office.

The president has expressed deep frustration with the delays, tasking Elon Musk to work with Boeing and the Air Force to speed up the process. Those efforts have been modestly successful. Boeing's most recent estimated delivery date is now 2027, but Trump has made it clear he wants a new plane this year.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5723564&forum_id=2#48921492)

let me stop you right there, hoss

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5723564&forum_id=2#48921496)

it's fucking ca tar, like always

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5723564&forum_id=2#48921673)

But he doesnt even care abt doing his corruption with a bit of justification, instead he just openly says oh yeah Im gonna keep using it after Im no longer POTUS, it will be in my POTUS library name

Hes really like an African dictator

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5723564&forum_id=2#48922090)

AF1 can only be in the possession of the Air Force, either owned outright or as a leased asset

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5723564&forum_id=2#48922213)

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5723564&forum_id=2#48922285)

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https://archive.ph/gYnBf

Trump Wants a New Air Force One So Badly He’s Refurbishing a Qatari Plane

The luxury plane is being outfitted in Texas for Trump’s use as his frustration mounts with Boeing

By

Andrew Tangel

Josh Dawsey

Sharon Terlep

May 1, 2025 5:00 am ET

President Trump boarding Air Force One this week in Michigan. The jets currently in use date to the George H.W. Bush administration.

President Trump is done waiting for Boeing.

Frustrated by delays on Boeing’s work to deliver a new Air Force One, Trump has commissioned a smaller defense contractor to ready an interim presidential plane by year’s end.

Boeing will continue plugging away on a pair of Air Force One replacement jets, which have fallen so far behind that Trump might not get to fly on them while in office.

The U.S. government has commissioned L3Harris to overhaul a Boeing 747 formerly used by the Qatari government. The Melbourne, Fla.-based company is tasked with retrofitting the plane with certain specialized systems to transform the luxury aircraft into a presidential jet, some of the people said.

Trump wants to have the plane available for use as early as the fall, some of the people said. He has regularly asked for updates. On April 18, the CEO of Boeing came to the Oval Office to meet with Trump, people familiar with the meeting said.

The White House, Boeing and L3Harris declined to comment.

In his first term, Trump commissioned two new presidential planes to replace a pair of aging jets, which are among the world’s most complex aircraft with communications and defensive systems that serve as a command and control platform for the commander in chief. Boeing won the $3.9 billion contract and at one point was expected to have the planes ready by last year. But it is now years behind schedule and billions of dollars over budget, after a series of supplier, engineering and manufacturing setbacks.

L3Harris has been commissioned by the government to overhaul a Boeing 747, formerly used by Qatar’s government, as an interim presidential plane.

L3Harris has been a contractor to Boeing working on communications systems for the pair of replacement Air Force Ones. The company, a product of the 2019 tie-up between L3 Technologies and Harris Corp., aims to become an alternative to the Pentagon’s biggest suppliers and has been growing quickly. It generates roughly one-third the annual revenue of Boeing.

The interim jet would complement the current pair of aging, heavily modified Boeing 747 jets that are known by the military as VC-25A aircraft and referred to as Air Force One when the president is on board.

Before Trump’s inauguration, White House Military Office and senior Air Force officials considered canceling Boeing’s contract for the new planes, according to people familiar with the matter. White House officials under Trump have also discussed whether they can sue the plane manufacturer, some of the people said.

The U.S. Air Force has long wanted a third jet to serve as a backup when one of the current pair is undergoing maintenance, according to people familiar with the matter.

The VC-25As date to the George H.W. Bush administration and increasingly require heavy maintenance, potentially limiting the president’s transportation options on overseas missions when one of the planes is in the shop.

Trump inside Air Force One on a recent flight to Rome.

Around the November elections, Boeing representatives signaled to federal officials that the plane maker wouldn’t be able to deliver the new planes for about another decade—until around 2035, according to people familiar with the discussion. Boeing has, in particular, recently struggled with the planes’ complicated wiring and structural issues, including some related to holes for doors cut into the lower lobes of the aircraft, some of these people said.

During the Biden administration, Frank Kendall, the U. S. Air Force secretary at the time, considered canceling Boeing’s contract for the project. In an interview with The Wall Street Journal this week, Kendall said he had been open to weighing whether the Air Force might have to work with European plane maker Airbus, or go with a two-engine jet, rather than the four-engine 747s it has been using.

Building out an interim airplane by the end of this year poses its own challenges. The plane might not be a true VC-25A that is as capable as the current jets. A quick turnaround would likely limit modifications, said Andrew Hunter, the Air Force’s acquisition chief during the Biden administration, who wasn’t familiar with the new plans. “You could do some paint, you could do some communications upgrades, and I suspect it would be hard to do too much beyond that on that timeline,” he said.

Military officials privately discussed whether they could paint the current Air Force One jets in Trump’s favored color scheme for the incoming president, people familiar with the discussions said. The Biden White House had rejected that paint job for the future president jets, whose dark blue paint might increase the heat signature on the plane and require costly and time-consuming modifications to avoid interfering with key electronic systems.

Boeing even produced a slide deck with potential other paint schemes, including variations of Trump’s that had blue and red stripes but a gray or white underbelly, according to a Nov. 18 Boeing presentation viewed by the Journal.

The president in February toured a Qatari-owned 747 in West Palm Beach, Fla.

Soon after his election victory, Trump initiated a series of conversations with Boeing executives and enlisted Elon Musk to help speed up the Air Force One replacement jets with the hopes of being able to fly on the plane whose price he personally negotiated, according to people familiar with the discussions.

Musk demanded detailed information about the project even before Trump was in office, according to a person familiar with the request, which made some executives at Boeing uncomfortable. Musk then regularly called Boeing officials and visited the future Air Force One jets at the company’s San Antonio facility.

In February, Trump teased publicly he might go in a different direction.

He spent more than an hour touring a Qatari-owned 747 in West Palm Beach, Fla., and said afterward that he might buy a new plane. “I’m not happy with Boeing,” he said.

Boeing didn’t comment at the time, but CEO Kelly Ortberg told investors Musk was helping to speed Boeing’s work on the replacement planes by reducing onerous requirements set by the Air Force and White House.

Musk is “able to pretty quickly ascertain the difference between technical requirements and things that we can move out of the way,” Ortberg said at a February investor conference.

Boeing has struggled with certain Federal Aviation Administration certification requirements, as well as maintaining security credentials for workers involved with the highly classified project.

“If we’re going to get this thing delivered and get it at a reasonable time and a reasonable cost, I think you have to go in and be somewhat ruthless about the requirements,” said Kendall, the former Air Force secretary.

Write to Andrew Tangel at andrew.tangel@wsj.com, Josh Dawsey at Joshua.Dawsey@WSJ.com and Sharon Terlep at sharon.terlep@wsj.com

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5723564&forum_id=2#48922725)

https://www.politico.com/news/2025/05/11/qatar-calls-jet-gift-trump-inaccurate-00341084

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5723564&forum_id=2#48922782)

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14673127/trump-air-force-one-boeing-qatar.html

See inside Trump's magnificent new Air Force One jet... acquired from an unlikely source after Boeing failed

President Donald Trump is so desperate for a new Air Force One jet that he asked a Florida-based company to overhaul a plane once used by the Qatari government.

The moves comes amid years-long delays in the provision of two replacements for the aging presidential planes that the president commissioned during his last time in office.

After becoming frustrated at Boeing's apparently inability to deliver the order Trump wants L3Harris, a defense contractor, to transform the luxury aircraft previously used by Qatar by the fall, The Wall Street Journal reported.

Back in February, Trump traveled to Palm Beach International Airport and toured the plane on the tarmac.

Based on pictures of interior, which boasted leather furniture along with glimmering floors and ceilings, it matched perfectly with Trump's famously opulent taste in décor.

Its a major setback for Boeing, which had been tapped during Trump's first term to deliver a new pair of state-of-the-art planes to replace the old ones that have been in service since George H.W. Bush administration.

Boeing has fallen so behind on the $3.9 billion project that it now fears it won't be able to finish building the planes before Trump leaves office. They were supposed to be finished last year, but a series of supplier and engineering snags has caused the project to take years and go billions over budget.

Behind the scenes it appears Boeing CEO Kelly Ortberg's visit to the White House on April 18 did nothing to smooth things over.

President Donald Trump is done waiting for Boeing to make his new Air Force One fleet, instead tasking defense contractor L3Harris with the job of remodeling a jet once owned and used by the Qatari government

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President Donald Trump is done waiting for Boeing to make his new Air Force One fleet, instead tasking defense contractor L3Harris with the job of remodeling a jet once owned and used by the Qatari government

The interior of the plane is filled with plush carpeting and leather couches

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The interior of the plane is filled with plush carpeting and leather couches

Pictured: A conference room with deep cushioned chairs that are adjustable with the push of a button

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Pictured: A conference room with deep cushioned chairs that are adjustable with the push of a button

A glimmering corridor inside the plane that jives with Trump's famous love for anything and everything gold

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A glimmering corridor inside the plane that jives with Trump's famous love for anything and everything gold

Pictured: The used Qatari-plane sits on the tarmac at Palm Beach International Airport on February 15, 2025. Trump toured the plane that day

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Pictured: The used Qatari-plane sits on the tarmac at Palm Beach International Airport on February 15, 2025. Trump toured the plane that day

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L3Harris, while not necessarily a household name like Boeing, does have the distinction of being the sixth-largest defense contractor in the United States.

The interior of the plane, done by famed French interior design firm Alberto Pinto Cabinet, is filled with ornate suites, staterooms, lounges and dining rooms. Nearly every room on board has plush carpeting, leather couches and golden furnishes.

The conference room has gorgeous tan and cream chairs with deep cushions that are adjustable with the push of a button. The corridors of the plane are lined with reflective, gold-colored walls that are reminiscent of Trump’s design choices at his own properties such as Trump Tower in Midtown Manhattan.

The plane is considered one of the most lavish in the world and once listed for about $400 million, according to the Business Jet Traveler.

And now it has the enormous task of retrofitting the Qatari jet with the most advanced communications and defense systems in the world in order to make the aircraft fit for the American commander-in-chief.

These apparatuses give the president the ability to have a mobile command center in the sky so he can make crucial decisions in event the US were militarily attacked.

The concept of transporting the president in his own private plane first came about in World War II.

Franklin D. Roosevelt's advisors at the time thought traveling by passenger plane would be risky, while going by sea was out of the question because of German U-boats patrolling the waters around Europe.

Technology has certainly advanced leaps and bounds since then. The planes Trump and other modern presidents fly on can withstand electromagnetic pulse attacks and can refuel mid-air, which means they have unlimited range.

Still, the two aging 747s in Trump's fleet increasingly require heavy maintenance, which could limit his transportation options when he needs to go overseas.

That's why current White House officials were furious after learning that Boeing told federal officials in November that it wouldn't be able to finish the planes it had been working on since 2017 until 2035.

Pictured: The current Boeing 747 jet that is being used as Air Force One. It has been in service since the days of George H.W. Bush, who served as president from 1989 to 1993

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Pictured: The current Boeing 747 jet that is being used as Air Force One. It has been in service since the days of George H.W. Bush, who served as president from 1989 to 1993

As a last ditch effort to save things with Boeing, Trump dispatched Elon Musk to try to speed things by authorizing the billionaire Tesla founder to give the plane manufacturer breathing room on certain onerous regulation imposed by the Air Force and the White House.

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As a last ditch effort to save things with Boeing, Trump dispatched Elon Musk to try to speed things by authorizing the billionaire Tesla founder to give the plane manufacturer breathing room on certain onerous regulation imposed by the Air Force and the White House.

Trump administration officials have also talked about the possibility of suing Boeing, The Journal reported.

As a last ditch effort, Trump even dispatched Elon Musk to try to speed things up with Boeing by authorizing him to give the company breathing room on certain onerous regulation imposed by the Air Force and the White House.

At a February investor conference, Ortberg said Musk is 'able to pretty quickly ascertain the difference between technical requirements and things that we can move out of the way.'

Although Trump has left Boeing in the dust, it has been indicated that the company will continue working on the pair of jets, even if it takes another decade.

However, it's likely that L3Harris will run into serious challenges achieving Trump's wish of having his chosen plane ready in a matter of months, according to Andrew Hunter, the Air Force’s acquisition chief during the Biden administration.

The abbreviated timeline will likely limit how many modifications Trump will be able to have done.

'You could do some paint, you could do some communications upgrades, and I suspect it would be hard to do too much beyond that on that timeline,' Hunter told The Journal.

The new Air Force One, which will already have a much more luxurious interior, could have a much bolder exterior as well.

That's because current military officials have reportedly discussed painting current Air Force One jets red, white and blue.

Daily Mail reached out to the White House and Boeing for comment.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5723564&forum_id=2#48922750)