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You might remember how roughly three weeks ago, the Katari royal family was offering this suspiciously nice gift of a brand new $400 million airplane that

would be used as the new Air Force One jet. It was an interesting situation. Most media outlets,

of course, were up in arms about the possibility of a conflict of interest. However, I myself,

I was more interested in the conversion process.

How do you take an airplane like this from the Middle East and convert it into a jet that will literally be used by the president of the United States?

Also, at that time, the U.S. government came out and said that even if they were to accept this

airplane, it would take billions of dollars, billions with a B, and it would take several

years to convert

that jet into an Air Force One airplane. Now, that really piqued my interest, and it sent me and my

researcher down this rabbit hole into the capabilities of Air Force One. What makes an Air Force One jet

an Air Force One jet? And while many of the features of these airplanes are understandably classified, many others

are not, such as the fact that one model of the Air Force One has a shield in place that

actually blocks nuclear EMP attacks.

And so today, let me break down for you, although we know, at least although we publicly know, about Air Force One.

So to start with, we need to address some terminology. There's no single airplane that's called Air Force One. In fact, Air Force One is not a single airplane. Instead, Air Force One is a call sign meant to designate any plane that happens

to carry the president. It's the generic call sign that everyone knows about. There are also,

I should mention, code names that nobody knows about. For instance, very famously on 9-11, during

the terrorist attacks, the White House received a threat saying that, quote, Angel was next.

And during that time, Angel was the classified code name for the Air Force One jet carrying George

W. Bush. Now, fortunately, that threat turned out to be empty, but it did reveal to us the secret

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