By Anthony Sharwood

America has a doomsday plane. Actually it has four of them. But the US government does not — repeat, DOES NOT — talk openly about its doomsday planes. The doomsday plane is like a mirror to Air Force One — a great big flying working office for the president and his or her staff.

But while Air Force One is your everyday, garden variety kind of presidential flying office, the doomsday plane is built and equipped to keep the US government running in the event of a nuclear war or other disaster.

Here’s some of the stuff we know about it:

It’s a converted 747 called an E-4B, also referred to as the “National Airborne Operations Center” when it’s called into action, which reportedly last happened on September 11, 2001.

The doomsday plane can reportedly withstand a nuclear bomb, asteroid blasts and terror attacks while staying airborne for days without refuelling.

In fact, the doomsday plane can remain aloft for a week with mid air-refuelling. The only reason it can’t fly longer is because the engine can only be lubricated on the ground.

The doomsday plane has a radiation-protected shell, 67 antennae and satellite dishes, plus a bunch of other hi-tech gear. The communications equipment is housed in the distinctive bubble behind the cockpit.

Yet for all its technical whizzbangery, the plane was once full of clunky 80s technology like the old school computers you see in the lairs of James Bond villains a few decades ago. Much of the old technology has reportedly been pulled out now, but the cockpit is still hardly what you’d call state of the art.

Interestingly, some see that as an advantage in a national emergency. As one officer told the Discovery Channel: “You rely on more parts, it’s more susceptible to breaking”.

The doomsday plane has three decks and a crew of up to 112 people, making it easily the largest crew in any military plane in the US, and probably the world.

The doomsday plane was commissioned by Ronald Reagan in the 1980s in the dying days of the Cold War when tensions were exceptionally high and the fear of nuclear war felt genuine and frightening.

US authorities rarely discuss the doomsday plane. In particular, they don’t mention the fact that its distinctive form was spotted by reliable witnesses above the heavily restricted air space above the White House on the morning of September 11, 2001, around the time the twin towers were struck by hijacked planes, but before the Pentagon was hit.

Conspiracists have long seen this as evidence that the doomsday plane was in effect a command center for the 9/11 attacks, which they consider an inside job.

There is no mention of the doomsday plane’s deployment that day in the official report of the 9/11 Commission, an omission which has fueled such conspiracies.

In all likelihood, the plane was never mentioned because the US government doesn’t exactly advertise the doomsday plane’s existence or its activities. That’s not a particularly sexy theory but it’s probably pretty close to the truth.

But while Air Force One is your everyday, garden
variety kind of presidential flying office, the
doomsday plane is built and equipped to keep the
US government running in the event of a nuclear
war or other disaster.

RockMaxi:

Other Citizens may die, but not the President..

US authorities rarely discuss the doomsday plane.
In particular, they don’t mention the fact that its
distinctive form was spotted by reliable witnesses
above the heavily restricted air space above the
White House on the morning of September 11,
2001, around the time the twin towers were
struck by hijacked planes, but before the
Pentagon was hit.
Conspiracists have long seen this as evidence
that the doomsday plane was in effect a
command center for the 9/11 attacks, which they
consider an inside job.
There is no mention of the doomsday plane’s
deployment that day in the official report of the
9/11 Commission, an omission which has fueled
such conspiracies.

CFCfan:
It's weird in a way. If the whole country is destroyed, who will the President govern?

RockMaxi:

What happened in the bolded was a grand plan but what they want us to believe is in the picture with a thousand message

CFCfan:
It's weird in a way. If the whole country is destroyed, who will the President govern?

oluwaKStar: wetin concine hi. Concine govern...u no go survive b4 u go strt to dey think abt govern

The doomsday plane can
reportedly withstand a
nuclear bomb, asteroid blasts
and terror attacks while
staying airborne for days
without refuelling.

Lovetinz: If a nuclear attack takes out its airports, fuel storage and ground support crew, it becomes a coffin waiting to crash.

2cato: I must acquire one b4 the end of these year. All i need to do is join APC (Association of Professional Conmem)with their headquater in boudillion ikoyi. I will try to divert all the fund accruing to BH from APC.

CFCfan:
It's weird in a way. If the whole country is destroyed, who will the President govern?

China unveils world's largest supercollider

Chinese scientists are designing a particle-smashing collider
so massive it could encircle a city.

Beijing, China - Chinese scientists are racing to complete
plans for a supergiant particle collider[b] that, when built, will dwarf every other accelerator on the planet.

The underground particle-smashing ring aims to be at least
twice the size of the globe's current leading collider - the
Large Hadron Collider (CERN) outside Geneva. [b]With a
circumference of 80 kilometres, the Chinese accelerator
complex would encircle the entire island of Manhattan.

CFCfan:
It's weird in a way. If the whole country is destroyed, who will the President govern?

cirmuell: unless the whole world is against them, they can always land in their allies airbase.

CFCfan:
It's weird in a way. If the whole country is destroyed, who will the President govern?

CFCfan:
It's weird in a way. If the whole country is destroyed, who will the President govern?

snowprince07: d remaining crew of d plane

codedmax: [/b]

This is plain hi-tech insanity
WTF!!!

*But if it can not fly to heaven,
hw im take concern me nw*