Tequila Bottles On Air Force 1

Boeing is currently building a pair of customized Boeing 747-200Bs in Texas that are scheduled to become the next Air Force One jets in 2025. According to a news report by The Wall Street Journal, two empty mini tequila bottles were found on the fuselage of one of the future Air Force One jets. Alcohol bottles near the assembly area of an aircraft is a red flag, but we are talking about the Air Force One, which makes it extremely worrisome. It goes without saying that the Air Force One jet that flies the President of the US is one of the most sophisticated and secretive aircraft in the world. All the Boeing employees working on the pair of jets have security clearance from the secret service due to the sensitive nature of the project.

Big Number $3.9 billion. That's how much Boeing is getting paid to construct the planes, as part of a contract agreed to with President Donald Trump's administration in 2018. Key Background Boeing told the Air Force earlier this year that delivery of the first plane may slip to 2025—a year later than planned. In April, Boeing terminated a contract with GDC, the company it had hired to design and build the planes' interiors, which it said had fallen a year behind schedule, and filed a lawsuit against it. In a countersuit, GDC blamed the delays on Boeing mismanagement of the project. The planes are 747s that are being heavily modified with military-grade avionics, defense systems and secure communications systems so that they can serve as aerial stand-ins for the White House. The planes were originally built for a Russian airline that went bankrupt and never accepted the planes.