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'Doomsday Plane' Would Save President and Joint Chiefs in Apocalypse Scenario
ABC News ^ | June 7, 2011 | MICHAEL MURRAY

Posted on 06/12/2011 8:46:37 PM PDT by sukhoi-30mki

'Doomsday Plane' Would Save President and Joint Chiefs in Apocalypse Scenario

By MICHAEL MURRAY

June 7, 2011

In the event of nuclear war, a powerful meteor strike or even a zombie apocalypse, the thoroughly protected doomsday plane is ready to keep the president, secretary of defense, Joint Chiefs of Staff and other key personnel in the air and out of danger. It may not deflect a Twitter photo scandal, but it can outrun a nuclear explosion and stay in the air for days without refueling.

The flight team for the E-4B, its military codename, sleeps nearby and is ready to scramble in five minutes. It was mobilized in the tumultuous hours after planes crashed into the World Trade Center, the Pentagon and southern Pennsylvania on 9/11.

"If the command centers that are on the ground in the United States have a failure of some sort, or attack, we immediately get airborne. We're on alert 24/7, 365," Captain W. Scott "Easy" Ryder, Commander, NAOC, told ABC News' Diane Sawyer as she traveled to Afghanistan with Secretary of Defense Robert Gates on the apocalypse-proof plane. "Constantly there's at least one alert airplane waiting to get airborne."

ll E-4B aircraft are assigned to the 55th Wing, Offutt Air Force Base, Neb. The modified 747s can travel at speeds up to 620 miles per hour, 40 miles per hour faster than their commercial counterparts.

The $223 million aircraft is outfitted with an electromagnetic pulse shield to protect its 165,000 pounds of advanced electronics. Thermo-radiation shields also protect the plane in the event of a nuclear strike.

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TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Government; News/Current Events; US: Nebraska
KEYWORDS: 747; aerospace; airplane; bhoairforceone; deadworld; doomsday; e4b; lefties; nuclear; plane; pockyclypse; retarded; usaf
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To: garjog

What’s the dog doing? Poor dog.


41 posted on 06/12/2011 9:23:10 PM PDT by unkus
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To: sukhoi-30mki

.................ll E-4B aircraft are assigned to the 55th Wing.................................

Do I read that right??

Eleven of these aircraft at $223 million each:

$2.5 billion in aircraft sitting on the ground awaiting the disbursement of Zer0, Wookie, then all the cabinet and spouses; then all the czars and spouses; then all the congresscritters and spouses; then all the quasi governmental goons like Bernankie and others; then who else.

All while us schleps have to put up with the radiation and death that they brought unto us.

Wonderful, just F**ing wonderful!


42 posted on 06/12/2011 9:29:13 PM PDT by Noob1999
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To: TheCipher

My wedding’s best man’s sister served most of her Navy CT career on Lookingglass.


43 posted on 06/12/2011 9:29:33 PM PDT by Quix (Times are a changin' INSURE you have believed in your heart & confessed Jesus as Lord Come NtheFlesh)
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To: garjog

I know a few cities that already look like that.


44 posted on 06/12/2011 9:33:09 PM PDT by mia
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To: The Antiyuppie

They must have some of those Zero Point Energy Modules (ZPMs) that they got from the Ancients, either by traveling to Atlantis via the Stargate, or by taking them from the wreckage of the alien craft found at Roswell.


45 posted on 06/12/2011 9:33:15 PM PDT by Zeppo ("Happy Pony is on - and I'm NOT missing Happy Pony")
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To: 43north

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qebqNtHe5Ng
Here’s a B29 that didn’t land for 20 years.


46 posted on 06/12/2011 9:33:56 PM PDT by Deaf Smith
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To: Dr.Zoidberg
Last thing in the world I’d want is to be one of the few remaining subjects for emperor sotero to lord over.

What makes you think he would survive?

47 posted on 06/12/2011 9:56:07 PM PDT by Sarajevo (Avoid arguments with your wife about lifting the toilet seat by simply using the sink.)
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To: Noob1999

Four 747s
Seven C135s

We had a C-135 Looking Glass at Lajes in the Azores. We were told if you ever saw it moving, kiss your ass goodbye. There was also one at Offutt AFB, Nebraska. Don’t remember where the rest of them were stationed.

They are stationed around the world so a General Command staff can retaliate in case the US is wiped out in a nuclear attack.


48 posted on 06/12/2011 10:10:06 PM PDT by hattend (Let's all meet Sarah at her last bus stop -- 1600 Pennsylvania Ave in Jan 2013)
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To: sukhoi-30mki

I am not at all comforted with the idea that 0bama can escape a disaster, possibly of his making, while the rest of us are left behind.


49 posted on 06/12/2011 10:10:36 PM PDT by Truth is a Weapon (Truth, it hurts so good.)
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To: sukhoi-30mki

If I remember correctly, the E-4B’s can completely take over the functions of what used to be SAC Headquarters near Omaha, NE and the NORAD Cheyenne Mountain command center in case they are attacked. The Russians had similar command planes with modified Il-18’s and Il-62’s but they couldn’t stay in the air as long as the E-4B’s.


50 posted on 06/12/2011 10:11:04 PM PDT by RayChuang88 (FairTax: America's economic cure)
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To: Sarajevo
What makes you think he would survive?

Biblical Prophesy? (anti-christ)

51 posted on 06/12/2011 10:12:27 PM PDT by hattend (Let's all meet Sarah at her last bus stop -- 1600 Pennsylvania Ave in Jan 2013)
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To: DeathBeforeDishonor1

He’ll have to do with shooting hoops through the Joint of Staff’s arms.


52 posted on 06/12/2011 10:18:09 PM PDT by Jonty30
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To: sukhoi-30mki

Didn’t they used to call this plane, “Kneecap”


53 posted on 06/12/2011 10:18:49 PM PDT by headstamp 2 (We live two lives, the life we learn and the life we live with after that.)
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To: garjog

Looks like the doggy is about to ‘Larry Sinclair’ hussein!


54 posted on 06/12/2011 10:27:33 PM PDT by bobby.223
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To: sukhoi-30mki

Hardly! The damn thing can’t fly forever..... =.=


55 posted on 06/12/2011 10:28:40 PM PDT by cranked
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To: cranked

What’s that joke. First the #1 engine died, then the #2, #3 and then... the #4. Luckily the pilot was able to get the #1 going again in order to land. I thought we were going to be stuck up in the air forever!


56 posted on 06/12/2011 10:34:17 PM PDT by 21twelve (Obama Recreating the New Deal: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2185147/posts)
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To: sukhoi-30mki
This guy came up with a better plan.


57 posted on 06/12/2011 10:34:43 PM PDT by Hoodat (Yet in all these things we are more than conquerors through Him who loved us. - (Rom 8:37))
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To: sukhoi-30mki

They can invent all the gadgets they want. They cannot escape G-D’s wrath.


58 posted on 06/12/2011 10:36:41 PM PDT by Never A Dull Moment
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To: sukhoi-30mki

So that’s what that 9/11 mystery plane was!!!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AxUvBWoHgBs


59 posted on 06/12/2011 10:37:22 PM PDT by Jack Hydrazine (It's the end of the world as we know it and I feel fine!)
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To: Deaf Smith

also has large windmills on top...


60 posted on 06/12/2011 10:40:26 PM PDT by goat granny
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