Air Force Diverts Missile Funds To Modify Qatari 747... Money is being taken from Sentinel ICBM program, which is over budget.

[WKTaylor]

I feel like I am hallucinating this... participating in a on-going nightmare by buffoons who have no limits... and believe in fairytales and the impossible.

Air Force Diverts Missile Funds To Modify Qatari 747 - AVweb

Money is being taken from Sentinel ICBM program, which is over budget.

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[ChorasDen]

Have you used the term TACO outside of a conversation about food, a midsized pickup truck, or a bent bicycle frame?

It's a pretty good description of a frisbee that gets stepped on or bladed into the ground, so yeah, imagine that, you can use that word in other ways.

 

[WKTaylor]

FWIW an empty 747 can easily land on a 2,000 metre long runway. I'd say that with maximum autobrake selected on a 747-8 the actual ground roll might be even half that.

Billzilla... from HK... the aircraft you are describing would be an empty/stripped-down plain vanilla 747. The Q747... aircraft modified for AF1... standards will have a substantially higher empty weight and drag.

Also remember... the airfield, taxiways and parking ramp would require special engineering and installation/construction to bare the dynamic/static weight and jet-blast and braking-loads of this aircraft. Not trivial.