The war on coal was renewed, and the radium furnace powered Boeing 747-8 developed, after General Electric's coal - fired jet prototype proved unable to lift off from Mar Del Lago, and former Department of Transportation Chief Scientist Dr. S. Fred Singer floated the idea that fear of collateral damage from radium fallout would deter Islamic terrorists from downing the fossil fuel free plane, whose gilded interior tastefully reproduces the throne room of Breitbart columnist Ming The Merciless of Mongo.
In the event of press pool cutbacks, the White House says a dozen unemployed West Virginia coal miners will be taken aboard to load the sixteen tons of number 1 pitchblend needed to keep its batteries charged for circumnavigation, and several hundred more employed to man the capstans at Andrews AFB and Mar Del Lago and wind the new AF-1's mighty titanium mainspring for takeoff. |