Posted on Jul 19, 2022
New Air Force One will officially deliver 2-3 years late - Breaking Defense
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The Pentagon has officially approved a new schedule for the next-generation Air Force One planes, with the government now projecting that Boeing will deliver the first new VC-25B aircraft by September 2026 at earliest — a full two years behind its originally scheduled date.
The rebaselined schedule, which was approved by Pentagon acquisition czar Bill LaPlante on June 28, also includes a later September 2027 “threshold” date for the first delivery, the Air Force said in a statement. Meanwhile, the second and final aircraft could be delivered anywhere between February 2027 and February 2028.
The rebaselined schedule, which was approved by Pentagon acquisition czar Bill LaPlante on June 28, also includes a later September 2027 “threshold” date for the first delivery, the Air Force said in a statement. Meanwhile, the second and final aircraft could be delivered anywhere between February 2027 and February 2028.
New Air Force One will officially deliver 2-3 years late - Breaking Defense
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The Airframes were already in place, to fit the spec'd requirements Boeing basically had to strip the guts of the aircraft and rewire most everything. Even considering this I don't understand why they will take so long to accomplish this task. Most of what is being changed is an internal retrofit that if the airframe were stripped should not be that difficult.
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MSgt Dale Johnson
SPC Jon O. - Most contracts like this have a penalty for delays so I wouldn't think that was the issue, just my opinion or best guess.
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Probably had to develop an escalator to prevent Joe from falling up the steps.
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I had read a article a few months ago that Boeing had lots of problems with finding qualified workers that could pass the required background checks needed to work on POTUS airframes.
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MAJ Byron Oyler
We live in a post-COVID world where companies want pre-COVID profit margins and workers want COVID payouts. We are having issues across the country and in my nursing field it is bad. I am the discount RN at my workplace because being full time staff is easier for me than being contract that sometimes make twice my income BUT hospitals are starting to pull that contract money back and people are saying HELL NO.
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