Guided Tour Inside the E-4B NAOC Doomsday Plane

all right lift a correction store here leave this to the fourth lower lobe down here is avionics and aircraft systems come up to the main deck turn left here you have the galley in the flight attendants section we prepare meals and flight and then here is the NCAA or National Command Authority office suite we have communications and accommodations for VIP travel we support the SEC def kit C has his own closet dressing area bathroom come through the galley see we have all day six oven coffeemaker fridges refrigerator freezer sink we can prep all kinds of meals for as many people as travel through here is the comforts room where we can hold meetings in flight then here's the press area we hold meetings in your briefings you'll see staff and whatnot will join in here for briefings this is a battle staff area where we have a planning staff for select deaf as you can see it's a converted 747-200 and some of the stuff we kept from when it was originally built like the overhead bins this one is a 74 model hold about 35 people in here about 17 in the press area 9 seats at the conference table these are printers and copiers in order to give access for computer stations workstations so they can do anything it's a working office they have all kinds of telephone computer printer copy fax anything you'd need in order to conduct business it's at their disposal here it's proximately five thousand square feet of office space did you see there those are the flap hinges the flaps come down those canoes help support the flaps as they come down allow us to slower approach speeds on degrade and degrade Oh on the wire is a EMP shielding that allows for electromagnetic pulse so we step into here this is the comm support area this is where we allow all that communication for the staff to do their planning we bring them back we provide the capability from back here we hold about 35 communications operators in here you'll see mostly voice operation to allow them to make phone calls faxes talk kind of a step up from your ATT operator back through here we allow all data transmissions come from back here talk to anyone in the world they have a phone we can we can talk to them so from anywhere anyway and the key is right here this is called tech control this is where they monitor and control all the systems of the communications and the back end so all cooling pressurization all radios all electrics all goes through these points here one of the interesting thing is our controllers here are not only operators but they're also maintained errs so they are qualified to fix any of the equipment that they have the problem with they can get back and they can actually do the maintenance on it themselves and then finally back here we have one last operator position this is for shf operation or super high frequency communications it's a spectrum other communications you have anywhere from low frequency or lhf to HF which is high frequency ultra high frequency very high frequency to super high frequency so they provide that capability which gets us around the world communication so as you see here we got 35 individuals all spread out working different sections organized by one officer back here and we fly them a lot of times in shifts to provide our alert mission which is a 24/7 365 day rotating mission so the extra crew members will sit back here and then once again to stow their stuff in the original overhead bins 57 cases of MREs on order airplay case you get hungry and then we've got 14 bunks available for in-flight caressed so that we can do our long missions final two areas are the original flight attendant jump seats on our cruise made up of essentially communications operators pilots navigator flight engineer flight attendant and then our battle staff is a joint section which is not part of the first acts they're part of the mail what I'll do is I'll take you from here and we'll go downstairs to the lower lobe section which originally a 747 cargo airplane would have been for bulk cargo and aft cargo we've converted it into more aircraft systems are down there but also our trailing antenna wire what we can do is we can trail an antenna behind the aircraft up to about five miles behind and what that does is it sends a sends a signal around at very low frequency which you can see right here it looks like speaker wire sends a signal two and a half times the the earth about twenty thousand watts it's trailed out by a metal basket similar to what a drogue would be on a narrow fueler pulled out by that it's operated from this section here just watch your head on that latch these are the original F bulk loading doors so cargo would be brought in and slid back into here and put in in your suitcases and stuff on a 747 would have been up in that front lobe she do is you basically have a bunch of gauges here where you're watching the pressurization of the stress on the drogue making sure that it stays within tolerances and then you have a periscope there that you looks down the back of the airplane so you can actually see the drug as it trails behind you and then it's a coordination from this position via Interphone to 163 feet in front of you up to me in the pilot position so that I'm filing the proper airspeed in the right airspace in order to allow this five miles of wire to betray along the aircraft here's the other door that was the asphalt door this is the cargo door which would have bought cargo then in this direction which we can still use for loading should we desire Susan is exciting all you have here is electronics equipment that how are they are playing systems Oh they're nine doors we've nine exit doors the reason there's out 10 there's 10 on a normal 747 is we have the other door you can see blocked by that equipment we don't carry enough to require all 10 doors will carry enough people this way work it in there it's going to show you behind this before we've modernized two screens we originally had projections and a slide actual no kiddin 35 millimeter slide projector and there's a position in there for a technician to sit there and as you push this podium slide light it lights up in there and they hit the next slide so it used to show next slide so you hit the button and it would cue the technician in there to sit and key to the next slide so it's kind of historic kind of one of our original web size working in there now it's all plasma screen so yep now we'll go up to the most exciting part which is up front excuse me guys see original spiral staircase of the 747 in the original chandelier even have the little rope comes out of here tell people not to be up in first class because this was the first class section it doesn't get utilized but that's still the original the chair back here is our upper rest area which we hold our maintenance personnel at we carry on board and then caress facilities here all the way to the back we have two more bunks back here we have a lavatory up here and then we have the cockpit it's a little busy as you can see they're doing maintenance work well can actually better shots were made for all later you

Channel: Horizontal Rain

Views: 2,738,939

Rating: 4.7540731 out of 5

Keywords: Boeing E-4 (Aircraft Model), NAOC, Doomsday, Plane, Offutt Air Force Base (Airport), 1 ACCS, Nuclear, EMP, Unclassified, Emergency Action Message, EAM, SecDef, POTUS, JCS, Joint Chiefs Of Staff (Governmental Body), USAF, Destruction, Live, Flying

Id: maZdUtB0ojs

Length: 17min 28sec (1048 seconds)

Published: Mon Sep 30 2013

Reddit Comments

[u/BabyLegs529]

Two things: 1) Our local ham club won't let anyone tweet pictures of our radio room for security reasons and here is a guided tour of a doomsday plane. 2) people still uses faxes?

[u/AwfulMechanic]

I'm a USAF Boom operator and got to refuel this beast in air, some of the smoothest flying I've seen pull up to the boom.

[u/mynameisalso]

Is that antenna 5 miles long, or is it a 5 mile long wire to the antenna? If that antenna is 5 miles long is it the biggest in the world?

I obviously know nothing about anything to do with this sub. I recently joined because I find it interesting.

[u/Darth_Ra]

Hey cool, I've been on one of these!

[u/dudejuice]

It's always a real treat when one of the ol' E-4s flies over. The last time it happened I was on the highway and I damn near put my head through the window to get a better look at it.

[u/Speck72]

Cool!

[u/CountParadox]

That's pretty damn cool