WEBVTT - How Air Force One Works 0:00:00.280 --> 0:00:02.920 Brought to you by the reinvented two thousand twelve Camray. 0:00:03.160 --> 0:00:07.560 It's ready. Are you welcome to stuff you should know 0:00:08.160 --> 0:00:16.319 from House top works dot com? Hey, and welcome to 0:00:16.360 --> 0:00:19.799 the podcast. I'm Josh Clark. With me is Charles W. 0:00:20.239 --> 0:00:28.240 Chuck Bryant, Colonel Chuck Admiral Flight Coordinator. I'm a potato 0:00:28.320 --> 0:00:33.479 peeler camp counselor camp counselor. Charles W. Chuck Bryant with 0:00:33.720 --> 0:00:36.839 me as always. How you doing, Chuck? Hey, it's November. 0:00:37.159 --> 0:00:40.960 I know, happy November. November one? Right, yeah, yeah, which 0:00:40.960 --> 0:00:42.599 is the first day in November. Just get any trick 0:00:42.680 --> 0:00:45.920 or treaders? No? Nothing. I have two sets of steps 0:00:45.960 --> 0:00:48.640 that lead up to my front door. And apparently kids 0:00:48.680 --> 0:00:51.400 are fat and lazy these days in diabetic Did they 0:00:51.520 --> 0:00:55.360 like y'all throw something down here to the street? Now? Now? Um, 0:00:55.440 --> 0:00:58.600 we we left after a while. We just don't get 0:00:58.640 --> 0:01:01.640 anybody who comes to our house. Did you get candy? No? 0:01:01.720 --> 0:01:04.200 Not this year? We well we had before and we 0:01:04.240 --> 0:01:06.400 just we sat there and ended up eating all of it. 0:01:06.440 --> 0:01:09.400 And no one comes to our house either, So that's 0:01:09.400 --> 0:01:14.080 good at all? Why oh, like our neighbors don't It's 0:01:14.080 --> 0:01:16.720 sort of like as you come around the bend coming 0:01:16.760 --> 0:01:20.080 from the other way, from the Decatur side, that's sort 0:01:20.080 --> 0:01:23.720 of where it ends the trick or treating, Like the 0:01:23.760 --> 0:01:27.119 bend in the road just it like approaches Memorial Drive 0:01:27.240 --> 0:01:29.880 and people it just gets scary and there's a bus 0:01:29.880 --> 0:01:33.120 stop and people turn their lights off. My neighbors are old, 0:01:33.160 --> 0:01:35.240 they don't get into it. So I think that's just 0:01:35.280 --> 0:01:38.200 sort of the Demarcasian Did you guys get candy? No, 0:01:38.319 --> 0:01:41.360 we never, I mean we never do because so basically 0:01:41.480 --> 0:01:44.440 it stinks. Man, I'm ready for Like, did you dress 0:01:44.560 --> 0:01:48.080 up at all well for that stupid show? I did? Oh, yeah, 0:01:48.080 --> 0:01:51.120 that's right. You dressed up as Paul Stanley in a 0:01:51.200 --> 0:01:54.720 three piece suit. Yeah. Looking good. I think if you 0:01:54.760 --> 0:02:00.280 asked me, we should post that picture. Yeah, my post one. Okay, Chuck, Yes, 0:02:00.400 --> 0:02:03.720 you know Jay Carney is a family friend of my family's. 0:02:04.120 --> 0:02:06.920 I did not know that. Well, he's not. I actually 0:02:06.960 --> 0:02:08.640 got what I'm about to read off of the White 0:02:08.639 --> 0:02:12.040 House website. Okay. I couldn't mislead you. I started to, 0:02:12.200 --> 0:02:16.280 and I just stopped. Um, it's so far. It's been 0:02:16.320 --> 0:02:21.520 a typically busy week for President Barack Obama. Monday, he 0:02:21.560 --> 0:02:25.880 went to Las Vegas, delivered some remarks, went to l A. 0:02:26.200 --> 0:02:29.840 Probably pulled a slaughter too, Probably you have to if 0:02:29.880 --> 0:02:33.680 you go to Vegas, everybody's like get out of here. Um. 0:02:33.800 --> 0:02:35.520 And then he went to l A, stay in l 0:02:35.560 --> 0:02:39.919 A overnight. Right about now he is doing the tonight 0:02:39.960 --> 0:02:44.520 show with Jay Leno. Should be on tonight, UM. And 0:02:44.520 --> 0:02:49.600 then he goes to San Francisco, Denver, and then he 0:02:49.600 --> 0:02:54.000 heads back to um d C Wednesday so that he 0:02:54.040 --> 0:02:56.280 can meet with the Prime Minister of the Czech Republic 0:02:56.480 --> 0:03:00.240 Petter Neckas. There is a lot of Flyn more Porton 0:03:00.240 --> 0:03:03.720 than Jay Lenno. Yeah, oh yeah, you're a Cocoa fan, 0:03:03.760 --> 0:03:06.680 aren't you? Te Coco? Yeah. I mean even if Conan 0:03:06.720 --> 0:03:10.200 Membrian didn't exist, I would still think JNS bad. Did 0:03:10.240 --> 0:03:12.920 you ever see uh night Shift, I think is what 0:03:12.960 --> 0:03:15.200 it was called about, the late night the first late 0:03:15.280 --> 0:03:19.359 night work between and UM and they've let him. Yeah, 0:03:19.400 --> 0:03:22.000 that was good, It was real good. Okay, Well, aside 0:03:22.040 --> 0:03:24.680 from that part, yes, you're absolutely right. That's a lot 0:03:24.720 --> 0:03:28.480 of flying and every step of the way. Mr President 0:03:28.560 --> 0:03:32.120 Barack Obama is going to be a board a luxury 0:03:32.800 --> 0:03:37.520 decked out seven seven with a tail number of either 0:03:37.560 --> 0:03:40.920 twenty eight thousand or twenty nine thousand. You know how 0:03:40.920 --> 0:03:43.160 I know that because it's written right here in this 0:03:43.240 --> 0:03:46.760 wonderful article. Yes, this article called how air Force one 0:03:46.840 --> 0:03:50.960 Works on how stuff works dot com. Uh, if you're 0:03:50.960 --> 0:03:53.640 not familiar, you know a lot of people think like 0:03:53.680 --> 0:03:57.160 we just this is our job podcasting. They don't, but 0:03:57.240 --> 0:04:00.640 they don't put that together with the site. You should 0:04:00.680 --> 0:04:02.520 visit the site. And we work for a website called 0:04:02.560 --> 0:04:04.520 how stuff works dot com. If you don't, now the 0:04:04.640 --> 0:04:07.360 mystery is solved and air how air Force one works 0:04:07.440 --> 0:04:10.000 is on fad site and we say that three that 0:04:10.160 --> 0:04:13.080 said that three hundred and seventy five times, but people 0:04:13.080 --> 0:04:17.839 still don't get it. It's true, Like what's your email address? So, Chuckers, 0:04:18.040 --> 0:04:20.120 you want to do some history first? Oh? Why not? 0:04:20.400 --> 0:04:23.560 You have you? Before you um read this article? Had 0:04:23.600 --> 0:04:26.200 you heard of Air Force one? I had heard of 0:04:26.200 --> 0:04:28.160 air Force Line. I had not heard of the guests 0:04:28.200 --> 0:04:31.440 where to No, let's let's start it out, because the 0:04:32.080 --> 0:04:36.920 presidential air travel is fairly new, right. Yeah, Up until 0:04:36.960 --> 0:04:40.359 World War Two, it wasn't very practical to fly around 0:04:40.560 --> 0:04:44.080 and one might even say dangerous, and you were cut 0:04:44.080 --> 0:04:47.840 off because mainly because you were cut off from communications 0:04:47.960 --> 0:04:51.960 actually telegraph like, no, I want that bill push through exactly. 0:04:52.800 --> 0:04:56.599 But in n f DR said, you know what, I 0:04:56.680 --> 0:04:59.839 want to take my wheelchair up on this bowing three 0:05:00.000 --> 0:05:02.960 fourteen and uh, I want to take a little trip 0:05:03.000 --> 0:05:07.640 to Casablanca. And that was the first presidential flight. Yeah, 0:05:07.680 --> 0:05:11.600 and he he actually took that flight for practical reasons. 0:05:11.640 --> 0:05:16.040 It was because the Germans. The Germans had the Atlantic 0:05:16.200 --> 0:05:18.440 completely under lockdown base and want to take a boat 0:05:18.440 --> 0:05:20.520 in those days. He was like, no, I'm not going, 0:05:20.640 --> 0:05:24.240 so I'll just fly and it went smashingly and from 0:05:24.279 --> 0:05:28.240 that point on everybody said maybe the president should fly. 0:05:28.480 --> 0:05:31.640 They said, this boating thing snakes, we should fly places. 0:05:31.960 --> 0:05:35.039 It's much more efficient. Even a flying boat wouldn't do. 0:05:35.279 --> 0:05:39.120 We just want to flying planes, right. Um, So coming 0:05:39.200 --> 0:05:43.479 up next, there were I've got six planes before the 0:05:43.520 --> 0:05:47.400 new set. That was number one. Number two was a 0:05:47.520 --> 0:05:52.159 C eight seven, a Liberator Express and it was pretty 0:05:52.240 --> 0:05:54.440 much a BET twenty four bomber that was you know, 0:05:54.760 --> 0:05:58.880 tricked out civilian style. There were there was padding on 0:05:58.920 --> 0:06:01.880 the armrest exactly, and that was called the Guests Where too. 0:06:02.839 --> 0:06:05.680 Just the worst plane name ever. Yeah, Well it's a 0:06:05.680 --> 0:06:09.760 pretty like typical forties, like engineer. It's like a Colonel 0:06:09.880 --> 0:06:13.560 John Paul's staff name the guess where too? It's pretty bad. 0:06:14.120 --> 0:06:17.480 The third plane, well, another C eight seven crashed and 0:06:17.520 --> 0:06:19.279 they said, you know what, this might not be the 0:06:19.279 --> 0:06:21.480 best plane because we don't know exactly why it crashed. 0:06:21.960 --> 0:06:23.600 We don't want to put the president in there. So 0:06:23.640 --> 0:06:27.440 then they configure to see fifty four Skymaster for that 0:06:27.480 --> 0:06:30.080 same president because he was president for like sixty years. 0:06:31.320 --> 0:06:36.640 And Um it had sleeping quarters, a radio, telephone, retractable 0:06:36.680 --> 0:06:40.200 elevator for his wheelchair, and it was named the Sacred Cow. 0:06:41.600 --> 0:06:46.600 Better name, better than the guests where too? It's up there? Okay, 0:06:46.640 --> 0:06:49.200 I mean it's okay. It definitely reminds me of our 0:06:49.279 --> 0:06:54.120 grarian past. Yeah, all right, am I covering history here? 0:06:54.920 --> 0:06:58.560 You got the Truman Show. Next, Um took over the 0:06:58.600 --> 0:07:03.200 Sacred Cow, replaced it the d C six called the Independence. Now, 0:07:03.240 --> 0:07:05.480 he was from Missouri, so that makes sense that he 0:07:05.520 --> 0:07:08.760 would call it the Independence Independence Missouri and its United States. 0:07:09.080 --> 0:07:12.480 But I also got the impression that he um basically 0:07:13.880 --> 0:07:16.880 it was a Garish plane. They had like an eagle 0:07:16.960 --> 0:07:19.800 on the front, all sorts of patriotic decorations and nothing 0:07:19.840 --> 0:07:21.960 else that had had been decorated up to that point. 0:07:22.040 --> 0:07:24.520 It's like the statue of Liberty threw up on this plane. 0:07:25.960 --> 0:07:28.000 I haven't seen a picture of it, actually, no, but 0:07:28.120 --> 0:07:30.920 I could see Truman being like real enthusiastically. Yeah, that 0:07:31.440 --> 0:07:34.239 there and that there, you know, go shoot a commy 0:07:34.320 --> 0:07:39.680 over there. How about Betty Boop up front? So our boys, no, no, something. 0:07:40.800 --> 0:07:46.600 Eisenhower introduced to propeller planes, upgraded the equipment, including for 0:07:46.640 --> 0:07:49.200 the first time, air to ground telephone and air to 0:07:49.240 --> 0:07:53.720 ground teletype, which is the first computer. That's not true, No, 0:07:53.760 --> 0:07:57.560 Teletype was like facts. It was like the bouncing ball. Yeah, yeah, 0:07:57.720 --> 0:08:00.800 I think so. That was the fourth and fifth sets 0:08:00.840 --> 0:08:03.560 of planes. Right, well, hold on, so so far a 0:08:03.600 --> 0:08:07.720 couple of landmarks have happened, right. Um, they decked it 0:08:07.760 --> 0:08:10.760 out for Roosevelt. It wasn't just a civilian craft any longer. 0:08:10.800 --> 0:08:14.160 There was like some fly stuff going on. Truman added 0:08:14.520 --> 0:08:18.600 a couple of other backup planes that were twin planes. Yeah, 0:08:18.600 --> 0:08:21.200 which is big. Okay. And then now now we're we 0:08:21.320 --> 0:08:26.400 on too. Now we're undo Kennedy who in nineteen they 0:08:26.440 --> 0:08:29.360 finally got with the plan and they got seven oh 0:08:29.400 --> 0:08:33.559 seven Boeing seven oh seven jumbo jets, and they officially 0:08:33.600 --> 0:08:38.319 called them Air Force one with their radio called designation. Right, 0:08:38.440 --> 0:08:42.439 that was Eisenhower. That was Eisenhower. Yeah. During Eisenhower's administration, 0:08:42.440 --> 0:08:45.960 the Air Force adopted the seven seven and started calling 0:08:46.000 --> 0:08:48.040 him Air Force one. And then when Kennedy took over 0:08:48.440 --> 0:08:51.839 and everybody was crazy for all things presidential, Air Force 0:08:51.880 --> 0:08:55.000 one caught on. It's for the public because he probably 0:08:55.000 --> 0:08:57.720 went on and said air Force one at some point. 0:08:57.800 --> 0:09:01.920 But he also redecorated it tastefully in the same way 0:09:02.000 --> 0:09:06.439 that it's decorated today, which is nice. Yeah, it's I mean, 0:09:05.600 --> 0:09:10.600 it's timeless because you don't look at it and be like, yeah, 0:09:10.600 --> 0:09:17.199 it's not it's not the vessel sink of airplanes. Home 0:09:17.200 --> 0:09:21.280 wonders know what I'm talking about. Um. So Kennedy uh 0:09:21.640 --> 0:09:23.920 added a more advanced seven oh seven that could fly 0:09:23.960 --> 0:09:25.760 a little longer, but it was still a seven h seven, 0:09:26.240 --> 0:09:29.160 like you said, redesigned it to his probably Jackie's taste. 0:09:29.280 --> 0:09:33.040 Let's get real, and um added a twin plane to 0:09:33.120 --> 0:09:35.400 that fleet in ninety two, and that was a very 0:09:35.440 --> 0:09:38.520 famous plane because that flew him to Dallas and then 0:09:38.640 --> 0:09:41.040 flew his body back from Dallas. I know, the way 0:09:41.080 --> 0:09:43.240 that it's put in this article is so grim but 0:09:43.360 --> 0:09:47.960 just dead on. It says that it on November nine, 0:09:48.400 --> 0:09:50.720 It flew him to Dallas and then brought his body 0:09:50.720 --> 0:09:53.120 back later that day, which is crazy. You know, you 0:09:53.200 --> 0:09:55.120 think about him on that flight on the way out there, 0:09:55.120 --> 0:09:59.520 and then exactly and then on the way back, UM 0:09:59.640 --> 0:10:03.040 John's and was sworn in very famously aboard air air 0:10:03.080 --> 0:10:05.760 Force one. That photos very famous. And then the twin 0:10:06.200 --> 0:10:11.880 seven oh seven flew Nixon to uh, I guess your Belinda, 0:10:12.280 --> 0:10:17.640 California the day he resigned. Well, that's where his library is. 0:10:17.720 --> 0:10:22.200 I believe it's your Belinda. Um, but Chuck, something else 0:10:22.440 --> 0:10:25.079 kind of big happened. That leads us to a very 0:10:25.080 --> 0:10:30.040 important fact about Air Force one. Midflight, the the flight 0:10:30.120 --> 0:10:34.720 crew got word that Ford had been sworn in as president, 0:10:35.240 --> 0:10:38.560 and they changed the call sign for the flight from 0:10:38.600 --> 0:10:44.840 Air Force one to um SMS a Special Air Mission SAM. 0:10:47.160 --> 0:10:50.320 And the reason they did that is because the only 0:10:50.640 --> 0:10:52.960 only the plane that the President of the United States 0:10:53.000 --> 0:10:56.600 is currently aboard can be called air Force one's. Nixon 0:10:56.679 --> 0:10:58.880 was no longer president, so it was no longer air 0:10:58.920 --> 0:11:02.439 Force one. So technically the big plane that we all 0:11:02.440 --> 0:11:04.360 think of as air Force one isn't even air Force 0:11:04.400 --> 0:11:07.480 one unless the president is riding in it. But we're 0:11:07.480 --> 0:11:08.960 going to call an air Force one because that's what 0:11:08.960 --> 0:11:11.680 people do. Yeah, we're not jerks, you know, but it's 0:11:11.760 --> 0:11:14.200 it's the call sign for a plane, not specifically a 0:11:14.240 --> 0:11:16.959 plan that was depressing. I wonder if they announced it 0:11:17.000 --> 0:11:20.000 to Nixon, like and by the way, uh, this is 0:11:20.000 --> 0:11:22.240 no longer air Force one, this is sam and twenty 0:11:22.280 --> 0:11:24.880 seven thousand and Nixon just put his head in his hands. Yeah, 0:11:25.120 --> 0:11:27.160 that was it. I could see that. At least I 0:11:27.160 --> 0:11:31.200 didn't just crash it. They just jump out there like 0:11:32.040 --> 0:11:35.079 a long sucker. Good luck. Um. So those are the 0:11:35.120 --> 0:11:38.920 seven h sevens. They they kept flying all through Reagan, Yeah, 0:11:39.120 --> 0:11:41.920 first half of the Bush Seniors term, and then they 0:11:41.920 --> 0:11:45.680 were replaced by seven seven that are around today. That's right. 0:11:45.960 --> 0:11:49.000 And the article says that could replace him as earlyist 0:11:49.000 --> 0:11:51.840 two thousand ten, which is the twenty year mark. Not 0:11:52.000 --> 0:11:56.719 so is when they're looking to replace these now, it's 0:11:56.760 --> 0:11:59.800 like a delta flight or something. Yeah, so it's either 0:11:59.800 --> 0:12:04.040 gonna to be another seven four seven eight or a 0:12:04.120 --> 0:12:08.400 seven eight seven Dreamliner. Dude, that is any plane. I 0:12:08.480 --> 0:12:10.640 checked it out. It's pretty amazing. Yeah, those are nice. 0:12:10.679 --> 0:12:14.120 They have a really big bar in it. Yeah. I 0:12:14.160 --> 0:12:17.360 think that's no, it's the air bus that that Emirates fly. 0:12:18.040 --> 0:12:20.920 The airbus. Well, there's different configurations, but if you click 0:12:21.679 --> 0:12:25.040 Dreamliner Bowing seven eight seven Dreamliner interior and look at 0:12:25.080 --> 0:12:28.960 the Google images, it's, uh, it's pretty mixing. And that's 0:12:29.000 --> 0:12:33.000 just the standard one. I mean, planes typically are outfitted 0:12:33.440 --> 0:12:37.560 and appointed very nicely. Well, and let's we're there, so 0:12:37.640 --> 0:12:42.200 let's go. It is appointed nicely well. Yeah. Tom Harris, 0:12:42.240 --> 0:12:45.120 who wrote this article, compares it generally to like a 0:12:45.160 --> 0:12:49.360 really nice hotel, very nice office building. Yeah, but it's 0:12:49.520 --> 0:12:51.760 a plane instead. Yeah. And there's also Marine one. We 0:12:51.800 --> 0:12:54.360 don't want to short change the helicopter cousin of Air 0:12:54.400 --> 0:12:57.559 Force one, which is a Chinook, which is my favorite helicopter, 0:12:57.760 --> 0:13:00.240 and it's pretty sweet too on the inside. I mean 0:13:00.240 --> 0:13:05.480 it's like a a smaller nice apartment pretty much. And 0:13:05.559 --> 0:13:08.640 that is obviously the you know, that's the helicopter that 0:13:08.800 --> 0:13:10.880 it's the same designation when the when the presidents on 0:13:11.080 --> 0:13:14.920 army plane, that's Army one. The Marines fly the helicopter, 0:13:15.040 --> 0:13:19.520 so it's a Marine one. And um, the right now 0:13:19.520 --> 0:13:23.760 we've got those identical bowing seven if you want to 0:13:23.760 --> 0:13:28.080 get specific, Um, they have a lot Like we said, 0:13:28.120 --> 0:13:31.040 they're they're they're decked out differently. We'll get to that 0:13:31.080 --> 0:13:33.800 in a second, but just being seven forty sevens they 0:13:33.840 --> 0:13:37.280 have some specs. They are pretty impressive. Well, they're big. 0:13:37.320 --> 0:13:40.880 They're three stories like all seven forty sevens. Uh. They 0:13:40.960 --> 0:13:43.600 are as tall as a six story building and as 0:13:43.640 --> 0:13:47.920 long as a city block guests. Depends on what city 0:13:47.920 --> 0:13:51.080 you're in, I think it does. You're on, Yeah, exactly 0:13:51.640 --> 0:13:54.720 in the village. Are you uptown? Um? They each have 0:13:55.000 --> 0:13:59.000 four general electric jet engines. Uh. Do you want to 0:13:59.000 --> 0:14:01.440 read the jet engine number? Doesn't even out there? Know this? 0:14:01.640 --> 0:14:06.680 They are ge uh engines CF six DASH eight zero 0:14:07.000 --> 0:14:10.720 C two B one jet engines, which are money engines. 0:14:11.520 --> 0:14:15.560 Each one produces fifty six thousand, seven hundred pounds of thrust, which, 0:14:15.720 --> 0:14:19.760 as we know from the Anti Matter spacecraft episode, produces 0:14:19.840 --> 0:14:24.680 five million gs, which a human can sustain indefinitely. Yeah, 0:14:24.720 --> 0:14:27.680 we should point that out real quick. In in show correction, 0:14:28.560 --> 0:14:33.560 gees measure acceleration, so in theory, you would speed up 0:14:33.680 --> 0:14:35.960 really fast and then level out, so you wouldn't be 0:14:36.000 --> 0:14:39.240 experiencing geese the whole time, like we thought, Yeah, erroneously, 0:14:39.760 --> 0:14:42.800 and thank you physics people for correcting us. UM. The 0:14:43.080 --> 0:14:45.880 seven sevens fly up to seven hundred miles per hour. 0:14:46.000 --> 0:14:49.600 They go as high as forty five FET that's the 0:14:49.640 --> 0:14:54.720 ceiling maximum. What happens after that they just break apart, disintegrate. 0:14:55.160 --> 0:14:58.640 I don't think they disintegrate. I just think that's how 0:14:58.720 --> 0:15:01.280 high they can fly safely. May do something to your body, 0:15:01.320 --> 0:15:05.640 I don't know. UM. And then they hold fifty three thousand, 0:15:05.720 --> 0:15:10.200 six hundred and eleven gallons of fuel and a fully 0:15:10.480 --> 0:15:15.080 loaded UM, fully fueled seven forty seven at least the 0:15:15.160 --> 0:15:19.400 Air Force one seven forty seven's UM can fly halfway 0:15:19.440 --> 0:15:22.640 around the world before refueling. We should go ahead and 0:15:22.680 --> 0:15:25.120 let the cat out of the bag. Then Air Force one, however, 0:15:25.240 --> 0:15:29.200 can fly forever. Yeah, because you can refuel in flight, 0:15:29.360 --> 0:15:32.000 just like the big bomber planes. And they thought that 0:15:32.000 --> 0:15:35.440 would be a pretty swell idea in case the S 0:15:35.520 --> 0:15:38.360 was hitting the fan on the ground, which it did 0:15:38.400 --> 0:15:41.840 on September eleven two, one just keep them up there. Yeah, 0:15:41.880 --> 0:15:45.360 there wasn't that one. The one of the planes United 0:15:45.440 --> 0:15:50.000 ninety three that went down in Pennsylvania. Wasn't that destined 0:15:50.000 --> 0:15:52.920 for the White House? I think so? And it was 0:15:52.920 --> 0:15:55.240 pretty hairy even if it wasn't. They had no idea 0:15:55.520 --> 0:15:57.360 who was doing water when it was gonna get hit, 0:15:57.400 --> 0:15:59.760 So they said, just keep bushing the air, and they did, 0:16:00.240 --> 0:16:02.720 and they could have for a very long time, not 0:16:02.840 --> 0:16:08.040 just with fuel but with food as well. Yeah, they 0:16:08.080 --> 0:16:12.560 have the ability to feed one hundred people, and I 0:16:12.600 --> 0:16:15.280 think they have freezers down below that holds as as 0:16:15.440 --> 0:16:18.720 much as two thousand meals, So they could have stayed 0:16:18.760 --> 0:16:21.760 up here for quite a long time two thousand meals, 0:16:21.840 --> 0:16:24.360 especially if they started throwing reporters out the out of 0:16:24.360 --> 0:16:27.440 the you know door first ago. That's that's a bunch 0:16:27.440 --> 0:16:31.360 of meals right there. That's true. Um so, chuck uh. 0:16:31.560 --> 0:16:34.760 The does not have an escape pod though, well, we 0:16:34.800 --> 0:16:37.800 don't know that it does or not. The awesome movie 0:16:37.800 --> 0:16:40.800 Airforce One with Harry Ford, Uh, I have not seen 0:16:40.840 --> 0:16:42.880 it as it good? Yeah? Yeah, I mean, do you 0:16:42.880 --> 0:16:46.120 want to see your president kicking terrorists but with his hands? Yeah, 0:16:46.160 --> 0:16:48.800 like he he fights. Of course, he's like a former 0:16:48.880 --> 0:16:51.280 like Army ranger or something in the movie. We never 0:16:51.320 --> 0:16:55.000 get presents like that anymore. You know. Uh, so, yeah, 0:16:55.080 --> 0:16:58.480 it was. I enjoyed it. Um. So, yeah, apparently an 0:16:58.640 --> 0:17:01.360 escape pod factors in. Yeah, we don't know if there's 0:17:01.400 --> 0:17:03.440 one on Air Force one, but there could be. They're 0:17:03.440 --> 0:17:05.520 supposedly not, but if they're not, gonna tell you that. 0:17:05.880 --> 0:17:12.000 So I heard that Tom Clancy received a visit from 0:17:12.119 --> 0:17:13.840 I don't know who it was, maybe the n s A, 0:17:13.920 --> 0:17:17.040 the c I A, somebody, maybe the FBI came to 0:17:17.160 --> 0:17:21.440 his house and uh interviewed him because he had hit 0:17:22.200 --> 0:17:26.359 the nail on the head so closely when he described 0:17:26.480 --> 0:17:29.400 some classified nuclear sub in the Hunt for Red October. 0:17:29.760 --> 0:17:32.639 They wanted to know how he knew that, what the 0:17:32.720 --> 0:17:36.240 interior was like interesting, So it makes you wonder, you 0:17:36.280 --> 0:17:38.640 know what he came up with for Air Force one. Well, 0:17:38.680 --> 0:17:40.560 and that's one of the points of Air Force one 0:17:40.640 --> 0:17:42.879 is there's a lot of classified stuff. So while we 0:17:42.920 --> 0:17:46.280 know a lot of the parts, um, no one really 0:17:46.320 --> 0:17:49.600 knows the exact layout in configuration and then people know, 0:17:49.640 --> 0:17:52.040 but there's sworn to secrecy or have signed on to 0:17:52.160 --> 0:17:55.159 secrecy exactly. But so let's talk about what we do know. 0:17:55.440 --> 0:17:59.080 There's four thousand square feet of interior space. That's substantial. 0:17:59.200 --> 0:18:02.560 That's twice the side in my house. Um, and uh, 0:18:02.880 --> 0:18:07.440 there's three levels, just like on any but the top 0:18:07.520 --> 0:18:12.000 level is for communications generally, the mid level is like 0:18:12.040 --> 0:18:14.199 the living quarters, and most of the bottom level is 0:18:14.200 --> 0:18:17.600 cargo space and apparently freezers for food. Yeah, although I 0:18:17.640 --> 0:18:21.200 did see that the president's living quarters, bedroom, bathroom, workout 0:18:21.240 --> 0:18:23.640 room in office. I heard they were under the cockpit, 0:18:24.840 --> 0:18:27.240 so maybe the cockpits. I think the cockpits on the 0:18:27.280 --> 0:18:32.960 third that makes sense. Um, and conference room. The conference 0:18:33.040 --> 0:18:36.000 room is I mean, they don't have unlimited space, so 0:18:36.080 --> 0:18:39.359 the conference room is also the president's dining room. And 0:18:39.400 --> 0:18:43.040 depending on the time of day, you know, some people 0:18:43.040 --> 0:18:44.840 may be in there, other people might not be there. 0:18:44.840 --> 0:18:47.040 Maybe a meal, there may be some pretzels on the table, 0:18:47.440 --> 0:18:51.000 it depends. That's right, up to seventy passengers and twenty 0:18:51.080 --> 0:18:53.880 six crew in total. Comfortably. I'm sure they could pack 0:18:53.920 --> 0:18:56.480 more people in there, which means they have four leftover 0:18:56.600 --> 0:19:02.720 meals at every meal. Yeah, you're right, Well does that 0:19:02.720 --> 0:19:04.840 add up? Yeah they do. I'm saying you throw a 0:19:04.960 --> 0:19:07.440 porter out bam, that's three meals a day. Well what 0:19:07.480 --> 0:19:10.840 if he's reported that eats heavy, Well, yeah, what if 0:19:10.840 --> 0:19:13.760 he's eating those other four meals. You know, Hunter Thompson 0:19:13.800 --> 0:19:16.640 flew on Air Force one the next seven or seven 0:19:16.760 --> 0:19:20.520 yea for Fear and Loathing on a campaign trails because 0:19:20.560 --> 0:19:22.720 he was a legit journalist, so he was well for 0:19:22.840 --> 0:19:26.200 Rolling Stone. Yeah, but he got to interview Nixon one 0:19:26.240 --> 0:19:28.240 on one, but they told him all he could ask 0:19:28.320 --> 0:19:30.960 him about his football. Did he ask him about football? 0:19:31.000 --> 0:19:35.800 I'm sure he's probably that's fine with me. Rum diaries out. Yeah, 0:19:35.920 --> 0:19:38.960 I'm not sure how I feel about it. I'm gonna 0:19:38.960 --> 0:19:42.240 go see it. I've heard it's an enjoyable mess, but 0:19:42.320 --> 0:19:46.040 so is Hunter Thompson. Yeah. Um, getting back to Air 0:19:46.080 --> 0:19:49.080 Force one, the decks you can access up and down 0:19:49.080 --> 0:19:52.399 with these retractable stairs, and the impression I got is 0:19:52.480 --> 0:19:56.840 that they're retractable, probably so they can seal off the levels, right. 0:19:57.600 --> 0:19:58.879 I mean they don't say that in the article, but 0:19:58.920 --> 0:20:00.680 wouldn't that be the reason out. I don't know why 0:20:00.720 --> 0:20:02.320 he didn't just come out and say it, but it's 0:20:02.400 --> 0:20:06.560 their interior stairs. So yeah, if the president needed to 0:20:06.600 --> 0:20:09.320 just go hang out in the cockpit and get away 0:20:09.320 --> 0:20:13.080 from terrorists, he was losing the fist fight. I'm sure 0:20:13.080 --> 0:20:14.760 he could press a button in the stairs just go 0:20:14.920 --> 0:20:17.159 up and you're stuck on the second level. And there 0:20:17.160 --> 0:20:20.199 are three exterior entrances as well, but the one we 0:20:20.320 --> 0:20:23.160 usually see is the photo op obviously when they wheel 0:20:23.200 --> 0:20:27.719 out the the rolling staircase to the tarmac and uh, 0:20:28.840 --> 0:20:31.040 I think that's the front of the plane, the front, 0:20:31.080 --> 0:20:34.080 middle in the middle, you know. Obama apparently like in 0:20:34.119 --> 0:20:38.400 San Francisco. Uh, there's a child crying on the tarmac 0:20:38.400 --> 0:20:40.320 and he went right over to it and grabbed it 0:20:40.359 --> 0:20:44.120 and like calmed it down. I think that was today, 0:20:44.680 --> 0:20:48.120 and the mother like came up and starts slapping it's 0:20:48.160 --> 0:20:51.639 my child. I'm a tea party here. Uh. There's a 0:20:51.680 --> 0:20:54.879 staff area, Josh. There were two galleys, which in this 0:20:54.920 --> 0:20:58.240 case are like seriously fully functioning kitchens, not the coffee 0:20:58.240 --> 0:21:02.320 pot and the little rolling thing of frozen meals. Uh, 0:21:02.840 --> 0:21:06.399 like we said, conference and dining room. And the crew 0:21:06.600 --> 0:21:09.439 can actually ride and sleep there as well. Yeah, and 0:21:09.480 --> 0:21:12.119 it's you know, most of the general space for like 0:21:12.160 --> 0:21:16.080 the reporters and staff. It's like a really really like 0:21:16.160 --> 0:21:18.679 the nicest first class plane you've ever been on, I know. 0:21:18.800 --> 0:21:21.560 And that's just where they keep the reporters exactly. So 0:21:21.600 --> 0:21:24.320 I mean you imagine that the President's sweet is pretty nice. 0:21:24.800 --> 0:21:29.159 You've been on Elvis's at Graceland, Yeah, that's pretty sweet. 0:21:29.640 --> 0:21:31.399 You may set off the alarm. She sat down on 0:21:31.400 --> 0:21:34.880 the bed. Oh really yeah, interesting, the alarms just went. 0:21:35.320 --> 0:21:37.760 She like rolling around like, oh, this is so lovely. 0:21:38.640 --> 0:21:40.920 You know, she was pretending like she's gonna sit down 0:21:41.000 --> 0:21:44.040 and then past like her her center balance and went 0:21:44.040 --> 0:21:47.000 oh god, and like actually sat down on the bed. 0:21:47.520 --> 0:21:51.399 That puts her in rare company. Yeah, and which she 0:21:51.400 --> 0:21:55.240 got kicked off, and they came and she was already 0:21:55.280 --> 0:21:57.479 standing up by the time they came where like, we 0:21:57.520 --> 0:22:00.560 don't know what happened. They started going off by itself. 0:22:01.119 --> 0:22:05.200 That's pretty funny. What else, Josh Extensive Electronics, Big Time 0:22:05.280 --> 0:22:09.080 eighty five telephones, on board two way radio's facts computer 0:22:09.240 --> 0:22:14.920 WiFi nineteen TVs phone system is just like secure as 0:22:14.920 --> 0:22:17.679 it is in the White House apparently, which you know 0:22:17.720 --> 0:22:21.119 it has to be um I like the medical facility, 0:22:21.480 --> 0:22:24.840 which is scary, creepy, weird, you know, let's hear it. 0:22:25.080 --> 0:22:28.080 So there's an onboard medical facility and has a fold 0:22:28.119 --> 0:22:31.800 down operating table in case of emergency, has um e 0:22:32.080 --> 0:22:36.760 er equipment fully stocked pharmacy for you know long flights 0:22:37.840 --> 0:22:41.959 and Um, there's a staff doctor that travels everywhere logically 0:22:42.480 --> 0:22:44.880 with the president. I imagine he's a surgeon. Like he's 0:22:44.880 --> 0:22:48.320 probably or she is probably well versed in all fields. 0:22:48.320 --> 0:22:50.720 When you think, like I would want a field medic, 0:22:51.160 --> 0:22:54.200 a field surgeon plane, I'm sure it's not just like 0:22:54.440 --> 0:22:57.000 you know, a good time doctor or anything like that. 0:22:57.119 --> 0:22:59.840 I'm sure he's like probably has all sorts of like 0:23:00.040 --> 0:23:02.960 rulish training, like you can pull a bullet out of 0:23:02.960 --> 0:23:05.439 your chest right or do open heart surgery on the 0:23:05.440 --> 0:23:08.399 fly if he needs to. Or if the baby you 0:23:08.440 --> 0:23:10.439 pick up and trying to calm has some sort of 0:23:10.640 --> 0:23:13.720 poison TOCs and on its skin, exactly knows how to 0:23:13.760 --> 0:23:17.800