RE: FN-FORUM Re: [ OT ] physics question...

date posted 9th January 2003 12:53

>
> Yep, sure! Have you never seen Air Force One with Harrison Ford? :)
>
> Mike


> http://www.boeing.com/defense-space/military/af1/flash.html

Okay, to clarify:


While the call sign "Air Force One" was first used in the 50s, President
Kennedy's VC-137 (Boeing 707) was the first aircraft to be popularly
known as "Air Force One."

In 1962, a C-137C specifically purchased for use as Air Force One,
entered into service with the tail number 26000. It is perhaps the most
widely known and most historically significant presidential aircraft.
Tail number 26000 is the aircraft that carried President Kennedy to
Dallas, Nov. 22, 1963, and returned the body to Washington, D.C.,
following his assassination. Lyndon B. Johnson was sworn into office as
the 36th president on board the aircraft at Love Field in Dallas. This
fateful aircraft also was used to return President Johnson's body to
Texas following his state funeral Jan. 24, 1973.

In 1972 President Richard M. Nixon made historic visits aboard 26000 to
the People's Republic of China in February and to the former Union of
Soviet Socialist Republics in May. Tail number 27000 replaced 26000 and
carved its own history when it was used to fly Presidents Nixon, Ford
and Carter to Cairo, Egypt, Oct. 19, 1981, to represent the United
States at the funeral of Egyptian President Anwar Sadat.

Tail number 26000 was retired May 1998, and is on display at the U.S.
Air Force Museum, Wright-Patterson AFB, Ohio.

The first VC-25A -- tail number 28000 -- flew as "Air Force One" on
Sept. 6, 1990, when it transported President George Bush to Kansas,
Florida and back to Washington, D.C. A second VC-25A, tail number 29000
transported Presidents Clinton, Carter and Bush to Israel for the
funeral of Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin. The VC-25A will usher
presidential travel into the 21st century, upholding the proud tradition
and distinction of being known as "Air Force One."



So Air force one is one of two Aircraft or any aircraft in whichthe
President is travelling.

But ask me if I really care!