Showing posts with label Air Force One. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Air Force One. Show all posts

Tuesday, December 06, 2016

Trump Goes After Boeing Over Air Force One Cost


President-elect Donald Trump took to Twitter to go after Boeing over its contract to build a new Air Force One. Meanwhile, Trump continues to hold meetings with contenders for secretary of state. RealClearPolitics national political reporter Caitlin Huey-Burns joins CBSN to discuss.

Saturday, July 31, 2010

Nicolas Sarkozy Orders Air Sarko One Plane

THE TELEGRAPH: Nicolas Sarkozy's dream of having his own presidential jet to rival America's Air Force One are about to come true with "Air Sarko One", a £150 million aircraft complete with bedroom, air filter system so he can smoke cigars, and a shower.

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Mr Sarkozy's 176 million euro (£147 million) purchase and refit of the jet from tourist airline Air Caraïbes has raised eyebrows. Photo: The Telegraph

The specially upholstered Airbus A330-200, has just been taken on its first test flight in Bordeaux, southwestern France, with all internal fittings due for completion by October.

The plane will also include a 12-man meeting room, 60 business class seats, top-grade encrypted communications systems, a reinforced fuselage and missile decoy system.

A fleet of smaller jets is also to replace the current Falcon 50 and 900 models at ministers' disposal. This includes two Falcon 7Xs, models often favoured by the world's jet set.

Presidential air force officials have dubbed it "Air Carla One" after his ex-supermodel wife.

The French leader is understood to have long envied the luxurious conditions in which Barack Obama, the US President flies across the world in his Boeing 747-200B, and has complained that his two smaller Airbus A319s lacked the necessary presidential stature. >>> Henry Samuel in Paris | Friday, July 30, 2010

Friday, October 17, 2008

Kenya Seeks Big Airport for Obama

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Obama’s grandmother, who still lives in the village where his father was born. Photo courtesy of the BBC

BBC: Kenyan MPs have called for an airport in the west of the country to be upgraded for Air Force One in case Barack Obama wins the US elections.

Mr Obama's father was born in Nyanza Province and the MPs say the local Kisumu airport should be expanded in case he wants to visit.

The Illinois senator is a local hero in his father's homeland, where a local beer has been named after him.

Mr Obama has never lived in Kenya and he has visited just three times.

The MPs from Nyanza Province said it was clear that Mr Obama was going to clinch the US presidency, the private Nairobi Star newspaper reported. >>> | October 17, 2008

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