Classic British Flight Sim

The man himself paid a visit to Love Field yesterday flying in on his very nice ride. Here are a few pics I took from work.

Brian

Was he connecting with a Southwest flight??

He and AF1 have been to Vegas 4 times now///causes total chaos everytime he visits.

Not bad for a guy who has repeatedly told John Q Public NOT to come to Vegas

Garry Russell wrote:Was he connecting with a Southwest flight??

I guess if he was planning to inspect the new fence in the southwest, they would be the ticket.



PS
Brian your pics of southwest planes are much better....

Nice pics. I always thought when the President travelled that both 747s went with him, so no one is really sure which plane he is travelling on. Doesnt this happen any more ?? I know weve had cut backs, but surely not for your President..

The President is on which ever one has the call sign "Airforce One" irrespective of aircraft tail number or type for that matter.

Chris Trott can probably give you the straight skinny - but Ive only ever seen one E3 at time -- When he comes to Las Vegas - the C17s (two for the use of) land about 2 hours prior - and the F15 escorts normally go over to Nellis.


Leif

I actually learned more about the VC-25 operations (aka "Air Force 1") and the 89AW operations from National Geographic's "Inside Air Force 1" program than I did from my tour at Andrews that included their hangar (then-President Clinton was leaving as we arrived for a trip to Arizona).

The understanding I have is that both aircraft only deploy on longer flights. Stuff within the US only one plane will usually go unless there's a lot of stops then they may "pre-position" the second aircraft to be able to take over if something happens. Depending on how much travelling he's doing, there will usually be 1 or 2 C-17s (I think there was only 1 C-17 on this trip) carrying his motorcade. The second bird usually has either extra security or (more usually) a VH-60 and support equipment for if he's going to be in for any length of time. These short trips they don't need the whole setup, so they use a containerized comm center that stays on the C-17 and the suite on the VC-25 for their communication needs.

The plane that more usually "shadows" the VC-25 is the E-4B NAOC (National Airborne Operation Center), which is also based on the 747-200 airframe, that will be on station at a nearby military base (probably either Carswell or Randolph for this trip since he visited Austin and Dallas in the space of about 6 hours) in case of a military attack.

Leif! you lead me to believe Chris would "have the skinny" on AF1
and all he's got is what he saw on one hour Teeee Veeee show?

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....Joe Cash

for crying out loud