{"id":26874,"date":"2017-07-05T06:00:02","date_gmt":"2017-07-05T10:00:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/?p=26874"},"modified":"2017-07-04T06:53:20","modified_gmt":"2017-07-04T10:53:20","slug":"video-tour-of-the-e-4b-naoc-doomsday-plane","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2017\/07\/video-tour-of-the-e-4b-naoc-doomsday-plane\/","title":{"rendered":"Video tour of the\u00a0E-4B NAOC Doomsday Plane"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_26875\" style=\"width: 635px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/E-4B-NAOC-Doomsday-Plane-e1499086964990.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-26875\" class=\"size-large wp-image-26875\" src=\"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/E-4B-NAOC-Doomsday-Plane-1024x680.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"625\" height=\"415\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-26875\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">An Air Force E-4B National Airborne Operations Center aircraft sits at the international airport in Bogota,Colombia Oct. 3, waiting for Secretary of Defense Robert M. Gates. U.S. Air Force photo\/Tech. Sgt. Jerry Morrison)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Many thanks to <em>SWLing Post<\/em> contributor,\u00a0Jason Whiteley, who shares a video tour of the\u00a0E-4B NAOC Doomsday Plane and notes:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>This is a pretty interesting video of the inside of the flying Pentagon or Doomsday Plane. There is a lot of radio equipment on board including a radio antenna that can fly out of the back of the plane:<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"625\" height=\"352\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/maZdUtB0ojs?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/maZdUtB0ojs\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Click here to view on YouTube.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>This is very cool, Jason! It&#8217;s amazing how much technology they&#8217;ve crammed into this Boeing 747-200. The 747 is a large aircraft, but when loaded with so much technology and support staff, there&#8217;s no room to spare.<\/p>\n<p>With a video this detailed in the public domain, I can&#8217;t help but think there may already be a replacement for the E-4B.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks for sharing!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Many thanks to SWLing Post contributor,\u00a0Jason Whiteley, who shares a video tour of the\u00a0E-4B NAOC Doomsday Plane and notes: This is a pretty interesting video of the inside of the flying Pentagon or Doomsday Plane. There is a lot of radio equipment on board including a radio antenna that can fly out of the back [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[5984,3],"tags":[6300,6301,4093],"class_list":["post-26874","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aviation","category-news","tag-e-4b-naoc-doomsday-plane","tag-jason-whiteley","tag-videos"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pn3uc-6Zs","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":36694,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2019\/03\/radio-frances-digital-ambitions-and-am-radio-in-australia\/","url_meta":{"origin":26874,"position":0},"title":"Radio France&#8217;s digital ambitions and AM radio in Australia","author":"Thomas","date":"March 27, 2019","format":false,"excerpt":"Many thanks to SWLing Post contributor, Jason Whiteley, who writes: Hi Thomas, [T]here is a really interesting interview with Radio France here around their DAB+ expansion and the possible shut down of FM in France later [click here to read]. 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