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Air Force One Needs New Refrigerators. They Cost $24 Million

What's wrong with just replacing the system that's already in place with new parts?

This is like building an addition onto your house for a new bathroom because the toilet in the old one is leaking. And then ... bulldozing the house to build a new one within a couple of years.

umm they have been doing that and more than likely the parts aren't made anymore. they are 30 some years old.
the only parts available are referb's which they have already been using.

no it isn't the same but continue the crying. It is something that has to be done and it has to be done according to the military bid for the job.
 
umm they have been doing that and more than likely the parts aren't made anymore. they are 30 some years old.
the only parts available are referb's which they have already been using.

no it isn't the same but continue the crying. It is something that has to be done and it has to be done according to the military bid for the job.

Who's crying? Are you crying? We're trying to have a conversation.

Note that being dismissive and stating "air force standards" over and over doesn't contribute to the conversation. What are those standards? Why do they make these excessively expensive? Again, refrigerators aren't that complicated. They are a very mature, and well understood technology. Other aircraft have them -- likely other air force aircraft and even other large commercial airliners.
 
Who's crying? Are you crying? We're trying to have a conversation.

Note that being dismissive and stating "air force standards" over and over doesn't contribute to the conversation. What are those standards? Why do they make these excessively expensive? Again, refrigerators aren't that complicated. They are a very mature, and well understood technology. Other aircraft have them -- likely other air force aircraft and even other large commercial airliners.

https://www.snopes.com/2018/01/28/new-refrigerators-air-force-one-cost-23-6-million/

page 2 of the thread.

The Boeing Co., Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, has been awarded a $23,657,671 contract for engineering support services for VC-25A G12/G13 chillers, including prototype design, manufacture/procurement, installation, and the testing of one prototype, consisting of both Group A and Group B equipment. The Air Force requires that the current air chillers in the G12 and G13 galleys be modified with new cold food stowage to improve reliability and maintainability.

Their high cost is the latest example of just how expensive it is to build the heavily modified 747 jumbo jets that fly the president of the United States. Experts say the reason isn’t price gouging by Boeing, which makes the jets and handles the presidential modifications, but instead the result of bespoke equipment requirements put in place by the White House Military Office and the Air Force.

“The current rear lower lobe cold chiller units being replaced are the original commercial equipment delivered with the aircraft in 1990. The units were based on the technology at the time and designed for short-term food storage,” [Stefanek said].

“Although serviced on a regular basis, reliability has decreased with failures increasing, especially in hot/humid environments. The units are unable to effectively support mission requirements for food storage,” she said.

these are prototypes which means they will be tested on the current jets before going into the new ones that are being made right now.
 
Can you EVER stay on ****ing topic? I doubt it, you are incapable. This is about the ****ing refrigerators on Air Force One! So what about those fridges? They are controversial aren't they? I mean they cool food in a Republican way, and the Dems hate that.

You are right...... Me, I am concerned about the 250* foot gash in the side of the boat. This is a conversation about deck chair arrangements. Since I had little to say about the deck chairs, I should have confined my opinions to threads about what to do with the gash. My bad.


* - Most thought that the Titanic was sunk because the iceberg caused a single gash of about 250'.... it turns out that it was six very small punctures.... but the gash is a much more dramatic story.

Toppling Theories, Scientists Find 6 Slits, Not Big Gash, Sank Titanic - The New York Times
 
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