World's smallest aircraft carrier?
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World's smallest aircraft carrier?
On its way along the mid-Atlantic Coast . . .
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It's actually a replica on its way to national Harbor . . . pretty cool sight nonetheless.
https://www.bizjournals.com/washingt...al-harbor.html
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It's actually a replica on its way to national Harbor . . . pretty cool sight nonetheless.
https://www.bizjournals.com/washingt...al-harbor.html
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[QUOTE]The next version of the genuine article will be a modified Boeing (NYSE: BA) 747-8, with 4,000 square feet of interior floor space, advanced communications systems and the ability to withstand a nuclear blast.[\QUOTE]
They sure build 'em tough at Boeing!
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If I’m not mistaken this was parked at OQU for a few years recently awaiting conversion to a replica. I remember seeing it on the ramp there then found this article:
https://www.google.com/amp/www.provi...emplate=ampart
https://www.google.com/amp/www.provi...emplate=ampart
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RufusXS says:
...this was parked at OQU for a few years recently awaiting conversion to a replica.
Now, just how DO you turn a real aircraft into a replica???
...this was parked at OQU for a few years recently awaiting conversion to a replica.
Now, just how DO you turn a real aircraft into a replica???
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RufusXS says:
...this was parked at OQU for a few years recently awaiting conversion to a replica.
Now, just how DO you turn a real aircraft into a replica???
...this was parked at OQU for a few years recently awaiting conversion to a replica.
Now, just how DO you turn a real aircraft into a replica???
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But that's correct. Add in the fact that the engines and probably anything else that would actually allow the thing to fly have been removed, and it's no longer an airplane/aeroplane, just something that used to be and still looks like one.
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I drove by it in a car on the ramp when it was at OQU and it still had the engines it flew in on on the wings, just sitting there windmilling. I guess they replaced them for display purposes.
Interesting project but I would say difficult to accomplish to an extent where the interior of this mockup would correspond sufficiently to the real thing without support from the Air Force....
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OK, but nothing I've read in any of the linked articles above suggest they are attempting to recreate the interior of AF1, it is simply the setting for a museum on "Presidential travel." Whether that's just air travel or going further back to more basic days does not seem to be clear. I love the aircraft, but the museum concept seems like a snoozer to me. I'm happy to be corrected by anyone who has actually seen it, though.
It's the some of the systems that are considered 'top secret'...
Several ex-Evergreen 747s have gone to interesting post-flying careers. One is parked on the roof of the Evergreen 'Wings and Wave" waterpark in McMinnville and is integrated into a couple of the water slides.
Another is parked out front of the Evergreen Aviation and Space Museum next door (at least is was when I visited the museum a year ago...)
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