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While seemingly an eccentric individual he ruled the masses with the an unimaginative mix of bribery and deep brutality. Moammar Gadaffi typifies the classical career path of dozens of post-1945 liberationist revolutionaries who morphed into police-state despots. Non-political technical point: the A319/A320 program was a pioneer of commercial fly-by-wire and side stick control systems. He keeps the Airbus and some other privileges until his death from cancer in 2013. The military then remove Senor Chavez from power. Many of whom live in utter poverty despite the country’s huge fossil fuel reserves. This and the massacre of his own citizens became twinned unforgivable moments for the majority of Venezuelans. One phone call and US$65 million later he has a replacement for the ageing Boeing 737 he’d been putting up with. Apparently he’d seen one owned by an Emirati Sheik at some international conference. Days later, he takes delivery of an Airbus. In 2002 twelve protesters are gunned down by security forces loyal to President Hugo Chavez. Airbus A319 (Bolivarian State of Venezuela)ĭoes oil and gas wealth ever bring a country happiness? Ignoring the Black Swan of Norway, consider Venezuela. Non-political technical point: the Trident began life as a de Havilland design referred to as the DH.121ġ0. China’s all-business political elites now have access to Boeing 747s. It was increasingly found to just be in the way of people parking their BMWs. Last word, the tired Trident was being dragged off from the shopping mall where it had been on display. China’s VIP transport example bounced around for a time after retiring. Once a common sight flying between the UK and western and southern Europe none remain in service anywhere. Having a British-made VVIP plane wasn’t entirely about looking down on the masses as China is a big country and the leadership needed to get around, but the optics were still far from perfect. Though to be fair, the Trident was used as a domestic aircraft by the state owned airline CAAC who had a fleet of about 35. Or at least limited to really, really special occasions. Considering the poverty and turmoil of China in these years the idea of leaders looking down at the put-upon masses from a private jet strikes one now as something Communism would have eradicated. They were among the post-war world’s longest serving leaders, lasting from 1949 until the days of the Sex Pistols. Zhou-en-lai was the first Premier of China and served as Mao Zedong’s right hand. The Trident supplemented, and then replaced, an Ilyushin Il-18 Coot. Non-political technical point: F28s feature a split tail cone air brake like that on a Blackburn Buccaneer strike aircraft.Ĭhairman Mao Zedong and Premier Zhou-en-lai shared a British-built Trident airliner. This new aircraft lends a much slicker, up-to-the-minute corporate look to the law-and-order strongman presiding over a nation where vast economic inequalities are entrenched in daily life. The Fellowship was replaced only last year with a brand-new Gulfstream G280. That unit operated a Fokker F28-3000 Fellowship for state executive purposes starting in the stupidly decadent days of the Marcos family. Hence, the Philippine people find themselves supporting the 250 th Presidential Airlift Wing. Fokker F28 Fellowship Kalayaan (Republic of the Philippines)Īutocrat or not, the leader of an archipelago nation has good reason to fly. He was successfully extracted by Fieseler Fi 156 Storch, but this was not his aircraft of choice.ġ2. When the Italian government had Mussolini arrested in 1943, the Germans mounted a daring raid to rescue him. Stephen Caulfield chooses 12 infamous aeroplanes that have perfected despot delivery. Now, while one man’s ‘strong leader’ is another’s dictator we can be certain that all the human entrants in this list are or were prize bell-ends. You cannot be a world-class psychopathic narcissist unless you have your own aircraft. The Pe-8 was the only Soviet heavy bomber of the war, and bombed Berlin. Both journeys were in a nicely fitted out Douglas C-47: not a Li-2 even but a proper US built Skytrain. The Soviet leader was terrified of flying and flew only twice – to Tehran and back. Though rumours persist of a VVIP Petlyakov Pe-8, Stalin never used a Pe-8.