planes, and they ve made sure there won t be any to replace them. now, to be clear, it s not even clear it s not even widely agreed as to whether or not it s legal for the trump administration to be doing this. i mean legally they were supposed to consult with congress for four months before pulling out of this treaty. they didn t. they just they just pulled out of it. biden, if he wanted to, could presumably use that fact to unilaterally say as president, we re rejoining the open skies treaty. when they said they were withdrawing, that was actually illegal. it was done improperly. consider us to still be in it. but if biden does that and it s not inconceivable that biden s going to do that neener, neener, too bad. the trump administration right now, as we speak is liquidating
dad used to fly back in the day. he was a commercial airline pilot. this is a dash 80. it s a big, four-engine jet that boeing started making in the mid-1950s. the dash 80 would later become the basis for the boeing 707, which, of course was a famous passenger aircraft. but the dash 80 would also evolve on the military side in a bunch of really interesting ways. the dash 80 first evolved in the military side into something called the stratolifter, which is such a late 50s, early- 60s name, right? the stratolifter, in use in the united states since the 1960s and is still a workhorse transport plane for the air force. in the mid- 60s, 1965, boeing started making a special variant of the c-135 stratolifter, and the special warrant they made cool name alert it was called
bunch of really interesting ways. the dash 80 first evolved on the military side into something called the stratolifter, which is such a late 50s, early 60s name, right? the c-135 stratolifter. it is still to this day a workhorse transport plane for the united states air force. in the mid- 60s, 1965, boeing started making a special variant of the c-135 stratolifter. and the special variant they made cool name alert it was called the constant phoenix. and that variant of that plane was specially modified to fly around the world, taking samples of the air, sniffing the atmosphere for signs that someone somewhere on earth had set off a nuclear explosion. constant phoenix. that variant of the stratolifter went into use for the first time in 1965, the height of the terror of the cold war.
name, right? the c-135 stratolifter. it is still to this day a workhorse transport plane for the united states air force. in the mid- 60s, 1965, boeing started making a special variant of the c-135 stratolifter. and the special variant they made, cool name alert, it was called the constant phoenix. and that variant of that plane was specially modified to fly around the world, taking samples of the air, sniffing the atmosphere for signs that someone somewhere on earth had set off a nuclear explosion. constant phoenix. that variant of the stratolifter went into use for the first time in 1965, the height of the terror of the cold war. it was used to identify any secret nuclear tests or blasts or even accidents that some country was trying to keep secret. the nuclear blast-sniffing constant phoenix, amazing in its own right, but then it, itself,
come back in the interim way i did, and to everybody who wished us well. your prayers and well wishes made a huge difference to me and my family. so i m a real person. these things happen. i thank you. all right. we re going to start tonight in a most rachel maddow show kind of way by talking about airplanes, specifically talking about a kind of airplane that susan s dad used to fly back in the day. he was a commercial airline pilot. this is a dash 80. it s a big four-engine jet that boeing started making in the mid-1950s. the dash 80 would later become the basis for the boeing 707, which was of course a famous passenger aircraft. but the dash 80 would also evolve on the military side in a bunch of really interesting ways. the dash 80 first evolved on the military side into something called the stratolifter, which is such a late 50s, early 60s