The plane turns into a white elephant.

[fncceo]

International House Of Planes?

Exactly!

 

[Crepitus]

It can't be "behind on maintenance" or it wouldn't be legal to fly, dumbass.

Is it legal to fly?

 

[airplanemechanic]

Is it legal to fly?

I don't know, go look it up.

But I would venture to guess it would look pretty damn bad to gift someone an airplane that they can't legally fly.

 

[Stryder50]

Bigger picture folks;

Trump Strikes $244 Billion in Deals With Qatar, Including ‘Historic’ Boeing Jet Sale​

Qatar Airways signed a $96 billion agreement to acquire up to 210 American-made 787 Dreamliner and 777X aircraft from Boeing.
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DOHA, Qatar—President Donald Trump announced on May 14 more than $243.5 billion in economic deals between the United States and Qatar, including a $96 billion agreement for Boeing to sell up to 210 jets to Qatar Airways.

The White House stated that the agreement with Qatar is projected to generate at least $1.2 trillion in economic exchange between both countries.

The deal was signed amid Trump’s four-day trip to the Middle East. The president was joined by Boeing CEO Kelly Ortberg and Qatari Emir Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani for the signing ceremony in Doha.

Trump had signed multiple agreements with Saudi Arabia the day prior.

Ortberg signed the deal with Qatar Airways CEO Badr Mohammed Al-Meer while standing next to Trump and Tamim. The president said Ortberg told him that it’s “the largest order of jets in the history of Boeing.”

The White House released a fact sheet after the ceremony confirming that Qatar Airways had signed a $96 billion agreement to acquire up to 210 U.S.-made 787 Dreamliner and 777X aircraft from Boeing with GE Aerospace engines inside.

“This historic agreement will support 154,000 U.S. jobs annually, totaling over 1 million jobs in the United States during the course of production and delivery of this deal,” the White House stated.

Other Economic Deals Signed With Qatar​

The president was also present to sign a defense agreement and an unspecified joint declaration with Tamim.
“I think after signing these documents, we are going to another level of relationship between Qatar and the United States,” the Qatari leader said.

Among the agreements is a deal between American engineering company McDermott and Qatar Energy, which will partner with seven active energy infrastructure projects worth $8.5 billion.

Parsons, a defense contractor, was awarded 30 projects worth up to $97 billion, that will create “thousands of jobs across the United States,” according to the White House.

Qatari company Al Rabban Capital finalized a joint venture with quantum computing company Quantinuum to invest up to $1 billion in quantum technologies and workforce development in the United States.

Aerospace and defense contractor Raytheon, now a business unit of RTX, secured a $1 billion project for Qatar’s acquisition of counter-drone capabilities, which was approved by U.S. and Qatari officials.

General Atomics signed a $2 billion agreement to produce the MQ-9B remotely piloted aircraft system for Qatar, which will provide its armed forces with “the most advanced multi-mission remotely piloted aircraft in the world,” according to the White House.
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Trump Strikes $244 Billion in Deals With Qatar, Including ‘Historic’ Boeing Jet Sale

Qatar Airways signed a $96 billion agreement to acquire up to 210 American-made 787 Dreamliner and 777X aircraft from Boeing.

www.theepochtimes.com

Last I knew, one needs a subscription to Epoch Times to read their webpage, so I copy-paste the bulk of their article here.
I'd expect similar is available on other websites.

 

[BULLDOG]

The ******* plane needs to be outfitted in order to qualify as AF 1 to the tune of 2 billion and three-four years

What a **** up

Trump doesn't care. We pay for upgrades and maintaining it and he gets a free plane.

 

[Muhammed]

Turns out the Qatari royal family has been trying to unload the jet for 4 years an had no nibbles, much less bites.

They are dumping an expensive albatross under cover of giving a bribe, I mean gift.

The royals have failed to sell the plane, which was put on the market in 2020, according to an archived listing. Giving it away could save Qatar’s rulers a big chunk of change on maintenance and storage costs, aviation experts told Forbes. Making Trump happy would be an added bonus.


Qatar, which has given away another blinged-out 747 and may have mothballed two more, epitomizes the fading demand for these huge, fuel-guzzling, highly personalized airplanes. There aren’t many who want to buy them, and many of the governments and royal families who own them have been trying to ditch them over the past decade.

Why The Qataris Are Happy To Dump Their 747 On Trump

The president may be thirsting for a new four-engine jumbo jet, but many governments and royal families are unloading their fuel-guzzling palaces in the sky.

www.forbes.com

If they think those planes are such a financial burden, I'll take them.

 

[westwall]

Turns out the Qatari royal family has been trying to unload the jet for 4 years an had no nibbles, much less bites.

They are dumping an expensive albatross under cover of giving a bribe, I mean gift.

The royals have failed to sell the plane, which was put on the market in 2020, according to an archived listing. Giving it away could save Qatar’s rulers a big chunk of change on maintenance and storage costs, aviation experts told Forbes. Making Trump happy would be an added bonus.


Qatar, which has given away another blinged-out 747 and may have mothballed two more, epitomizes the fading demand for these huge, fuel-guzzling, highly personalized airplanes. There aren’t many who want to buy them, and many of the governments and royal families who own them have been trying to ditch them over the past decade.

Why The Qataris Are Happy To Dump Their 747 On Trump

The president may be thirsting for a new four-engine jumbo jet, but many governments and royal families are unloading their fuel-guzzling palaces in the sky.

www.forbes.com

It's 22 years younger than the current AF1.

Go piss and moan elsewhere.

 

[Cellblock2429]

Turns out the Qatari royal family has been trying to unload the jet for 4 years an had no nibbles, much less bites.

They are dumping an expensive albatross under cover of giving a bribe, I mean gift.

The royals have failed to sell the plane, which was put on the market in 2020, according to an archived listing. Giving it away could save Qatar’s rulers a big chunk of change on maintenance and storage costs, aviation experts told Forbes. Making Trump happy would be an added bonus.


Qatar, which has given away another blinged-out 747 and may have mothballed two more, epitomizes the fading demand for these huge, fuel-guzzling, highly personalized airplanes. There aren’t many who want to buy them, and many of the governments and royal families who own them have been trying to ditch them over the past decade.

Why The Qataris Are Happy To Dump Their 747 On Trump

The president may be thirsting for a new four-engine jumbo jet, but many governments and royal families are unloading their fuel-guzzling palaces in the sky.

www.forbes.com

/----/ Auto Pen Joe started it. I'll give you the benefit that you didn't know this.

 

[Cellblock2429]

LOL!

Pretty pitiful- but how is the gift of a plane a blunder by Trump?

/----/ I'll give democRATs the benefit that they didn't know this.

 

[martybegan]

The ******* plane needs to be outfitted in order to qualify as AF 1 to the tune of 2 billion and three-four years

What a **** up

Considering Boeing is saying the replacement craft for the two in service won't be ready until 2035, this seems like a good stopgap.

 

[Lesh]

Considering Boeing is saying the replacement craft for the two in service won't be ready until 2035, this seems like a good stopgap.

I believe they are currently working on two replacements.

Where ya gettin the “2035” date from?

 

[Dragonlady]

LOL.....I'm glad "De Plane" is all you foolish people have to harp on.

Oh no. We have LOTS of other stuff to harp on, but this is the biggest, dumbest thing Trump has done this week.

Also, a "gift" you have to spend $1 billion to make useful isn't much of a "gift" at all.

But the BEST part of this is how gullible, greedy and stupid it makes Donald Trump look for having enthusiastically endorsed the notion of accepting this white elephant.

 

[martybegan]

I believe they are currently working on two replacements.

Where ya gettin the “2035” date from?

They were supposed to be delivered in 2024, the 2035 date was a worst case scenario being floated around, and now Boeing is saying at least 1 might be finished in 2027 or 2028.

The Scandal Buried in the Air Force One Story

 

[Mac-7]

Turns out the Qatari royal family has been trying to unload the jet for 4 years an had no nibbles, much less bites.

They are dumping an expensive albatross under cover of giving a bribe, I mean gift.

The royals have failed to sell the plane, which was put on the market in 2020, according to an archived listing. Giving it away could save Qatar’s rulers a big chunk of change on maintenance and storage costs, aviation experts told Forbes. Making Trump happy would be an added bonus.


Qatar, which has given away another blinged-out 747 and may have mothballed two more, epitomizes the fading demand for these huge, fuel-guzzling, highly personalized airplanes. There aren’t many who want to buy them, and many of the governments and royal families who own them have been trying to ditch them over the past decade.

Why The Qataris Are Happy To Dump Their 747 On Trump

The president may be thirsting for a new four-engine jumbo jet, but many governments and royal families are unloading their fuel-guzzling palaces in the sky.

www.forbes.com

They call that a marriage made in heaven

Everybody wins

 

[22lcidw]

Everyone knows the Progressive Socialist Communists are first in line for their ways of living. As it works its way in the pyramid, the living compared to the realities of the lower classes is like royalty to serfs. Progs in the Congress ae closer to the wrongs of decadence and extremism then as speaking for citizens.

 

[rightwinger]

/----/ I'll give democRATs the benefit that they didn't know this.
View attachment 1111901

Never happened
More BS from Conservatives

Bill Clinton didn't receive $17M helicopter from Saudi Arabia as president

A popular meme claims the nation gave the aircraft as a "parting gift" when Clinton's presidency ended.

www.snopes.com

 

[WorldWatcher]

/----/ I'll give democRATs the benefit that they didn't know this.
View attachment 1111901

You can read the tail number of the image on the left (the false claim) and the tail number on the helicopter services company. (Link Below)

Pssst - they are the same tail number as well as the companies livery.

Next up. Chuck Schumer was given a Rolls-Royce.

WW

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South Bay Helicopter

www.southbayhelicopter.com

Fact Check: Fake Bill Clinton Saudi Helicopter Gift Story Originated On Satire Pages -- No $17 Million Gift News Stories | Lead Stories

Did the Saudis give Bill Clinton a helicopter worth $17 million "to use in their airspace" and did he then...

leadstories.com

 

[LAUGHatLEFTISTS]

The ******* plane needs to be outfitted in order to qualify as AF 1 to the tune of 2 billion and three-four years

What a **** up

Let’s get it done now before the Dems are back in charge and it will cost 10 billion.

 

[Muhammed]

/----/ I'll give democRATs the benefit that they didn't know this.
View attachment 1111901

That's probably the helicopter that Bill Clinton took to Epstein's island.

 

[22lcidw]

Trump doesn't care. We pay for upgrades and maintaining it and he gets a free plane.

Sort of the same philosophy people are leaving high tax Prog states. Of course, the Progs repeat the same crap thus proving they are frauds and really do not want to pay for their utopian agendas.