Trump's 757 Grounded - Needs Expensive Repairs

[TOP]

With any luck by Thanksgiving....the ultimate tribute... There's nothing better than the Script carried out by socks and friends...

[PoliTalker]

Hello Dutch,

I'm guessing it'll never fly again. Trump will turn it into an extra show piece for his Presidential Library and Casino. Graceland has Elvis's jet on display too and everyone knows Trump has to be better than anyone to compensate for his..ahem...shortcomings. LOL

https://www.traveller.com.au/gracela...aceland-h18qyq

Saw that plane and everything else at Graceland. Pretty cool. He had a lotta cool cars and motorcycles, too. And a fleet of golf carts. When they would get tired of being inside working on music the band would go out back and have golf cart races.

[Doc Dutch]

Hello Dutch,

Saw that plane and everything else at Graceland. Pretty cool. He had a lotta cool cars and motorcycles, too. And a fleet of golf carts. When they would get tired of being inside working on music the band would go out back and have golf cart races.

I liked his .45.

My wife had Graceland on her bucket list and, a few years back, we took an hour detour to go to Graceland. The plan was to see Graceland one day and the Memphis Belle the next, but the airplane had been moved to Wright-Pat because the city of Memphis wasn't able to pay for restoration.

It's now on display at Wright-Patterson AFB, another line on my bucket list: https://www.nationalmuseum.af.mil/Visit.aspx

Elvis .45:

[Joe Capitalist]

How the mighty have fallen...

Boeing to Cessna:

"Donald Trump's taking to the friendly skies in a not-so-friendly plane for someone who was the most powerful man on Earth a couple months ago ... a jet so compact he can't stand up in it!!!

Trump was spotted by the DailyMail in NYC taking a few short steps into what appears to be a Cessna Citation X ... a super-midsize jet that's the envy of all social media influencers but a basic bird for your average CEO. The jet's reportedly a 1997 model registered to the Trump Org."

From Air Force One to This Tiny Jet?!? Flying Like Average CEO

Slumming it.

Too bad he can't even stand up.

"You are now free to crawl about the airplane."

[PoliTalker]

Hello Dutch,

I liked his .45.

My wife had Graceland on her bucket list and, a few years back, we took an hour detour to go to Graceland. The plan was to see Graceland one day and the Memphis Belle the next, but the airplane had been moved to Wright-Pat because the city of Memphis wasn't able to pay for restoration.

It's now on display at Wright-Patterson AFB, another line on my bucket list: https://www.nationalmuseum.af.mil/Visit.aspx

Elvis .45:

Didn't know they moved the plane. Been a while since I was there.

[Doc Dutch]

Hello Dutch,



Didn't know they moved the plane. Been a while since I was there.

Not sure if I was clear; it was the B-17 "Memphis Belle" that was moved. Elvis's plane is still at Graceland.

[PoliTalker]

Hello Dutch,

Not sure if I was clear; it was the B-17 "Memphis Belle" that was moved. Elvis's plane is still at Graceland.

Oh! Thanks for that.

What was the Memphis Belle famous for again?

[Doc Dutch]

Hello Dutch,



Oh! Thanks for that.

What was the Memphis Belle famous for again?

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/Memphi...rical_accuracy

[Doc Dutch]

https://militaryhistorynow.com/2018/...final-mission/

[PoliTalker]

Hello Dutch,

https://militaryhistorynow.com/2018/...final-mission/

Reminds me of the old TV show 12 O'Clock High. Good show.

[Doc Dutch]

Hello Dutch,

Reminds me of the old TV show 12 O'Clock High. Good show.

Agreed it's a good show. The first season was best, but the movie is truly awesome. The movie is still shown in training officers about the responsibilities of command and leadership styles. Note that Trump is not a good leader by any measure.

https://www.cram.com/essay/12-O-Cloc...sis/FC9S5CBGPR

[PoliTalker]

Agreed it's a good show. The first season was best, but the movie is truly awesome. The movie is still shown in training officers about the responsibilities of command and leadership styles. Note that Trump is not a good leader by any measure.

https://www.cram.com/essay/12-O-Cloc...sis/FC9S5CBGPR

Oh yeah, the movie was the best.

[Walt]

This aircraft is still extensively used. United and Southwest still use these aircraft actively in their fleets.

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.

[Walt]

Trump can certainly afford the project.

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.

[tigerred59]

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. "

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.