Ukrainian aircraft maker tweets Air Force One offer to Trump
Source: Reuters
Wed Dec 7, 2016 | 10:21am EST
The Ukrainian producer of the world's largest aircraft has offered to build a plane for Donald Trump after the U.S. president-elect said an order with Boeing Co for a new Air Force One should be scrapped.
"@realDonaldTrump May be it is better to consider #Antonov aircraft as Air Force One?," Ukrainian state-owned firm Antonov tweeted directly to Trump on Wednesday.
There was no immediate response from the future president, who is known for his unpredictable tweets.
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Antonov's offer appeared to have been in jest, but new orders from the United States or elsewhere would provide a welcome boost to its fortunes.
Read more: http://www.reuters.com/article/us-ukraine-antonov-trump-idUSKBN13W21F?il=0
Wounded Bear
(59,093 posts)doc03
(35,615 posts)a Hugo with wings.
brooklynite
(95,685 posts)doc03
(35,615 posts)and bragged about how cheap it was, I think it ran like three months. Was the East German car a Trivet or something?
lark
(23,395 posts)Of course it won't happen unless Putin's also getting a cut, so guess I can stop hoping that he will just fall out of the air and stop some of our misery. If Pence was also on the plane, 1000% better.
Hassin Bin Sober
(26,432 posts)On days they would move the new cars for snow removal he said "1/3rd started, 1/3rd needed to be jumped, and 1/3rd just weren't starting no matter what and had to be pushed" Brand new cars.
mainer
(12,050 posts)So they can hear everything that's said aboard it.
doc03
(35,615 posts)47of74
(18,470 posts)doc03
(35,615 posts)47of74
(18,470 posts)Ugh.
ToxMarz
(2,175 posts)and point out the Hitler was also Time's Man (Person) of the Year in 1938, and we know how that worked out.
Turbineguy
(37,585 posts)From Putin.
VMA131Marine
(4,196 posts)One of these as AF1 might not be so bad. Besides it needs to be big to carry around Trump's ego:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antonov_An-225_Mriya
Hassin Bin Sober
(26,432 posts)Kotya
(235 posts)The U.S. military leases them out from time to time. They're bigger than anything we've got.
VMA131Marine
(4,196 posts)There's only one!
Kotya
(235 posts)The slightly smaller but still massive An-124 is more common (and still larger than our C-5 Galaxy). These are the ones we lease out now and again.
VMA131Marine
(4,196 posts)but it was never completed for lack of funding. There have been attempts to find the money to finish it, thus doubling the fleet size to 2.
Blue Idaho
(5,150 posts)And bogus Rollex watches. Why does he get to decide what kind of airplane the real Presidents will ride on after he finishes disgracing the office of the President?
lark
(23,395 posts)Orange assface is so in hock to Russia, he'd do nothing to help Ukraine, which Putin is determined to take back. Of course the 4billion is just another typical lie about someone or some company which doesn't perform fellatio on him daily. I bet he's fully aware of the price, but either way doesn't give a shit. It's all about hurting the "enemy" who is anyone who doesn't LOVE him or at least express admiration for him.