As an aviation buff, I have sometimes cringed at the aging chartered airliners hastily repainted and thrown into the air on a grueling daily schedule of multiple stops by recent GOP presidential campaigns. Older planes are more widely available for charter than up-to-date, fuel-efficient airliners (which are so valuable they are usually kept in the air as much as possible), and they cost less per day, but more for fuel, than newer jets. But there is a downside in terms of dispatch reliability. It looks to me as though the Trump campaign made a wise decision in chartering a very up-to-date airplane for Mike Pence to use alongside Trump Force One (itself no spring chicken).  Via Conservative Treehouse: Governor Mike Pence gets his campaign airplane delivered today [Friday].  Top shelf.  It was almost complete in the following picture: Based on the livery, the plane looks like a Boeing 737-700, or possibly 800, series from the fleet of the resurrected...(Read Full Post)