Trump's 757 Grounded - Needs Expensive Repairs

PoliTalker said:
Hello Dutch,



Oh! Thanks for that.

What was the Memphis Belle famous for again?
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First B-17 crew to complete their 25 missions over Germany and make it home. The fact it was a significant indicates that many did not return.

Later, due to losses, the Army Air Corps kept raising the number of missions prior to rotation back to the States. The movie was largely fictitious.

I was a huge reader about the WWII air war as a kid and read books about B-17s by Martin Caidin and Edward Jablonski.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Memphis_Belle_(aircraft)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Memphis_Belle_(film)#Historical_accuracy

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Into the Night said:
This aircraft is still extensively used. United and Southwest still use these aircraft actively in their fleets.
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Southwest only uses different flavors of 737. They are famous for that. They have never had any Boeing 757-200.

United has been retiring its Boeing 757-200 for a decade now. They planned on retiring their last 757-200 in 2024, but that was before Covid-19. While technically still in the fleet, they are seldom used, because cheaper planes to fly are available. United is still seeing how much flying recovers, but will almost certainly move up their retirement.

It is a comparatively cheap plane to buy, but a comparatively expensive airplane to operate. So its operators are undercapitalized. Which is to say, in this current environment, they are going out of business. The 757-200 has the stench of failure on them, which is another reason everyone is dumping them.
 
Into the Night said:
Trump can certainly afford the project.
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trump is losing a lot of money, and he has no obvious money making opportunities in the future. he may well regret spending money on a type of plane everyone else is throwing away.

But what would he replace it with? Buying a new plane would be more expensive.
 
PoliTalker said:
Trump's personal Boeing 757 is sitting broken and unused at a New York airport, photos show

"Former President Donald Trump's personal Boeing 757 has been sitting at New York's Stewart International airport, in need of repair and unused since President Joe Biden's Inauguration, according to recent reports.

CNN initially reported that the plane, which seats 43 and is outfitted with 24-karat gold accessories, has a broken engine which could cost hundreds of thousands of dollars to fix.

It is the only plane visibly stored in a section of the airfield where there were also no incoming or outbound flights.

The Boeing 757 uses pricey Rolls Royce RB211 Turbofan engines. One of them on Trump's plane is reportedly broken and has been removed, with the exterior wrapped in white, according to CNN.

The plane used to belong to Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen, and Trump purchased it in 2011.

The former President decked the plane out with all sorts of expensive touches, like a 24-karat gold sink and gold-plated seat belt buckles. The plane also has a shower and TV screens galore. "
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Relax, the man's got 72 million ignorant followers with enough disability checks to not only git his plane back in the air, but enough suckers to pay for the gas too. The die hard trailer trash ingrates are nothing but bottom feeders for Trump and human ATM cash cows.
 
Dutch Uncle said:
Your socks are IBDaMann and gfm. Who are my socks, Sybil?
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Neither IBD nor gfm are socks, dude. I have already answered your question. RQAA, sock.
Dutch Uncle said:
Time will tell, but my guess is that 757 is either headed to a museum (it's tax write off for those who are stupid or insane) or the scrapheap to be recycled into beer cans.
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Apparently you also don't pay attention either. You don't bother to fix or repaint planes you are planning to scrap. There is also no need to scrap it. 757's are worth money, even if they need work. A typical used 757 is worth $20 million today.
 
Into the Night said:
A typical used 757 is worth $20 million today.
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You can get $20 million for a 757-200ER, or a particularly well setup 757-200. A typical 757-200 would get you $6 to $10 million, if you could find a buyer. Finding a buyer for 757-200's is not easy these days. A particularly run down 757-200, like trump's, is going for scrap.

Of course, trump cannot sell or scrap his plane. he needs a big plane, to claim to be rich. And he cannot afford a new big plane. That means he is stuck with the 757-200 for as long as he can afford to keep it flight worthy.
 
Walt said:
Southwest only uses different flavors of 737. They are famous for that. They have never had any Boeing 757-200.

United has been retiring its Boeing 757-200 for a decade now. They planned on retiring their last 757-200 in 2024, but that was before Covid-19. While technically still in the fleet, they are seldom used, because cheaper planes to fly are available. United is still seeing how much flying recovers, but will almost certainly move up their retirement.

It is a comparatively cheap plane to buy, but a comparatively expensive airplane to operate. So its operators are undercapitalized. Which is to say, in this current environment, they are going out of business. The 757-200 has the stench of failure on them, which is another reason everyone is dumping them.
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What failure?
 
By all means let us talk about 757-200 years of use and take-off/landing cycles and compare that to what other planes have managed before they are sent to the graveyard!
 
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