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Old 01-22-2021, 8:02pm   #41
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Edit: More recently, I had a contractor leave a card on the door. My neighbor's son joined the Army, and he wanted to ask me about the neighbors, generally I guess. By the time I called him back, he said he'd talked to a couple of my other neighbors and didn't need anything from me.
True story: One time I was coming home and was walking up the driveway when I saw two suits knocking on my front door. Quickly sizing up the situation, I did an about face and was starting to slink away, but I was too far up the drive and they saw me... One of them yelled at me and commanded me to stop. I kept walking. They told me to stop again, so I slowly turned around and was looking for an exit.

They asked if I lived there and wanted to talk to me. When my answers weren’t really forthcoming, they kind of looked at each other like, “what’s this guy’s problem?” Finally, after what seemed like an eternity, they said, “Look, your neighbor applied for a .Gov job and we need to do a clearance...” Immediately, I was like, “Oh... why didn’t you just say so?” Without identifying myself, I told them I’d never met him and didn’t know a thing about him. They looked at each other with a look of, “This fool is just a waste of our time, let’s go..”

Fast forward about six months and who do I run into in an office walking down the hall? It’s Frick and Frack..

“****ing figures...” one of them mutters under his breath.
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I like soup.
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I like soup.
Do you happen to like any solid food?
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OK Data. Tell us if you will how even the Air Force turns a pair of 400 million dollar 747s into a 5.3 BILLION dollar new Air Force 1 contract? Shit, Boeing wants something like 83 million for the ****ing owner's manual!
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OK Data. Tell us if you will how even the Air Force turns a pair of 400 million dollar 747s into a 5.3 BILLION dollar new Air Force 1 contract? Shit, Boeing wants something like 83 million for the ****ing owner's manual!
I have taken a tour and understand what that plane is capable of.

Not your average 747.
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I have taken a tour and understand what that plane is capable of.

Not your average 747.
You’re so important!

Not your average 747? Cereal? Do tell.
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OK Data. Tell us if you will how even the Air Force turns a pair of 400 million dollar 747s into a 5.3 BILLION dollar new Air Force 1 contract? Shit, Boeing wants something like 83 million for the ****ing owner's manual!
The purchase of the new AF1's included the optional software for the dual angle of attack sensors that Lion Air failed to pay for, resulting in a crash.
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Someone should be KITB.
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Got away from that shit - got tired of the neighbors asking me WTF?
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Not your average 747? Cereal? Do tell.
Can't.

You don't have a need to know.
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Do you even SCI bro?
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Do you even SCI bro?
Absolutely not. Have no desire.
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Absolutely not. Have no desire.
You do not meet either qualification for NCC C2 systems information.

I can't tell you.
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I have taken a tour and understand what that plane is capable of.

Not your average 747.
I see that but the new version is incapable of midair refueling, which seems a step backward to me. If the balloon goes up the damned thing has to land somewhere every 7000 nautical miles or so. That could get awkward....
Unless the contract includes a lifetime warranty and "free" maintenance forever I cannot see where the money might be spent; especially since computers and satellite communication and the like have become so much less expensive than they were 30 years ago.
Hell, the Air Force could buy an entire compliment of F-35s for that kind of money!
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The communications platform is very, very different.

It isn't anything commercially available.
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The communications platform is very, very different.

It isn't anything commercially available.
OK? So 2-3 hundred million for a one off stereo... you have a long way to go to get to 5.3 gigabux!
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OK? So 2-3 hundred million for a one off stereo... you have a long way to go to get to 5.3 gigabux!
Defense systems, survivability, contract support, parts and supplies for a two off plane for the life of it.
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Defense systems, survivability, contract support, parts and supplies for a two off plane for the life of it.
So the final figure is for the service life of both aircraft? THAT sounds better... I wish those sorry assholes in the MSM had researched the story deeply enough to include that tidbit of info. Link to your "lifetime" claim please.
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BTW.

It was a 5.3B cost plus contract and was changed to a 3.9B fixed price contract.
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The existing planes have never used the in flight refueling option.
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