I don’t have much of an opinion yet about Qatar’s donation of a luxuriously appointed decommissioned 747 to the United States to serve as a temporary Air Force One.
The story, as with so many these days, is murky because everybody has an ideological axe to grind and is spinning so furiously that I am getting nauseous from dizziness. When the truth emerges from the fog of rhetoric, I expect I will have an opinion about that and it may or may not be worth commenting on it.
The scandal buried in the Qatar/Air Force One story that is easy to understand is about Boeing, which apparently is unable to deliver on its 2018 contract to deliver two refurbished 747s by 2024. Their current timeline suggests that they MAY be able to deliver them 11 years late in 2035.
2035. The last time Boeing delivered modified 747s under the first Bush administration it took about…
