Air Force One
 

I just noticed that Air Force One is on the ground here in JAX. George W. is in town to meet with some kids at a local school.

My question is, has anyone been on Air Force One (or even knows anyone who has been on that bird)? I have been on some corporate jets and they are quite remarkable machines, but from the films I have seen about Air Force One, it is something else.

PS. My apologies if this is posted in the wrong forum, but I couldn’t find an Air Force One Mileage Program here!

I guess the Air Force One ff-program is the only one that can really call its lounges for "President's Club." http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/smile.gif

Air Force One is NOT on the ground in JAX. What is there is one of the planes (I think that one is a 707, but not sure) that were at one time Air Force One.

I'm absolutely not trying to be a fussbudget here. I'd just like to try to correct some possible misassumptions...Air Force One is the plane the President happens to be flying i AT THE MOMENT. It's a call sign, not a plane designator.

If President Bush went up in a Piper Cub tomorrow, THAT plane would be Air Force One.

There have been any number of airplanes that have carried American presidents. Usually, but not always, they have been especially outfitted for the job. But again, the designation itself is reserved for whatever the president happens to be in at the moment.

...now I gotta waffle..

Subject to security concerns this callsign may vary.

Dang, I'm sorry I got into this, now.

[QUOTE]Originally posted by hnechets:
[B]Air Force One is NOT on the ground in JAX. What is there is one of the planes (I think that one is a 707, but not sure) that were at one time Air Force One.

I'm absolutely not trying to be a fussbudget here. I'd just like to try to correct some possible misassumptions...Air Force One is the plane the President happens to be flying i AT THE MOMENT. It's a call sign, not a plane designator.

If President Bush went up in a Piper Cub tomorrow, THAT plane would be Air Force One.

There have been any number of airplanes that have carried American presidents. Usually, but not always, they have been especially outfitted for the job. But again, the designation itself is reserved for whatever the president happens to be in at the moment.

QUOTE]

You are correct in that it is Air Force One when he is on it. But there is a blue and white 747 sitting on the tarmac in JAX and when gets back on it in about 15 minutes it will then be Air Force One and then I believe that my question will be exactly correct!

There was a program recently on one of the "educational" cable channels re: Air Force One. It showed the current and a former craft and interviewed a number of former staff.

Anyway, to one of the points raised above: When Nixon abdicated the throne, he took AF1 out of town. When the word came that Ford had been sworn in, the pilot radioed the center to ask that the call sign of the aircraft be changed from Air Force 1 to some other designation.

Mike

[This message has been edited by Mikey likes it (edited 09-10-2001).]

You are quite correct, shep_one, when he gets on it, it will indeed be Air Force One.
And I just realized that I went off on a real tangent there, and I apoligize. Your question was has anyone been on Air Force One. I ignored that, and I'm sorry. Any one of htose kids who get on that plane while the president is on it will have, indeed, been on Air Force One! What a thrill that has to be...I am jealous, really.

BTW, no, I have never been on Air Force One.

Just color me jealous... http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/smile.gif http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/smile.gif http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/smile.gif

A girl I work with got to go on it a few months ago. Her husband knows one of the pilots from his military days or something.

I don't remember much of the details, but she was quite impressed, and I was jealous.

Flip

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