KarlB737 From United States of America, joined Mar 2004, 2931 posts, RR: 9 Posted (4 years 4 months 2 days 13 hours ago) and read 6994 times:
This morning I accidently stumbled on this information about an upcoming television special on the National Geographic Channel. It will air January 25th at 8PM. I know there are many A-Net members who like to see Air Force One when the chance comes along so I didn't want this information to slip by you or I. In the meantime go to this link and near the upper left you will see 5 options. They are:
Overview-Video-Photos-The Plane-More
Just for the fun of it depress Video and watch that. It is brief but interesting. You will have to depress the yellow play button when you see the new AF1 Pilot and Barack Obama at the top of the stairs as he comes on board. Enjoy this.......
Highflier92660 From United States of America, joined Apr 2004, 595 posts, RR: 0 Reply 2, posted (4 years 4 months 2 days 13 hours ago) and read 6939 times:
What gets to me isn't the relatively archaic round-dial cockpit with the F/E panel, the conference rooms or the private Presidential stateroom. Did you see that huge kitchen with the dedicated crew? Talk about crew coordination!
Qantas744ER From United States of America, joined Jun 2005, 1252 posts, RR: 4 Reply 4, posted (4 years 4 months 2 days 12 hours ago) and read 6825 times:
Quoting NWAESC (Reply 3): It's been on a few times already... For those of you who haven't yet seen it, you won't be disappointed.
That is the older one when Clinton was president.
This one is on for the first time on Sunday the 25th 8PM eastern.
JM079 From Jamaica, joined Jan 2008, 2256 posts, RR: 0 Reply 6, posted (4 years 4 months 2 days 10 hours ago) and read 6711 times:
Quoting KarlB737 (Thread starter): Just for the fun of it depress Video and watch that. It is brief but interesting. You will have to depress the yellow play button when you see the new AF1 Pilot and Barack Obama at the top of the stairs as he comes on board. Enjoy this.......
Air Force One - National Geographic Channel
I watched the preview with then President-elect Barack Obama being welcomed on board but when he flew from ORD to Washington after his vacation in Hawaii wasn't the 757 that was dispatched to take him to Washington and not the 747.
Is the 757 configured to accomodate the president in a smaller scale as the 747?
NWAESC From United States of America, joined Aug 2007, 3324 posts, RR: 9 Reply 7, posted (4 years 4 months 2 days 10 hours ago) and read 6710 times:
Quoting Qantas744ER (Reply 4): That is the older one when Clinton was president.
This one is on for the first time on Sunday the 25th 8PM eastern.
Leo
The one I'm talking about was made much more recently.
It shows the logistics involved for a multi-stop trip to Africa that President Bush took. This particular program just debuted a couple of weeks ago...
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787luvr From United States of America, joined Sep 2007, 20 posts, RR: 0 Reply 8, posted (4 years 4 months 2 days 10 hours ago) and read 6663 times:
Quoting NWAESC (Reply 7): The one I'm talking about was made much more recently.
It shows the logistics involved for a multi-stop trip to Africa that President Bush took. This particular program just debuted a couple of weeks ago...
The show airing this Sunday is not about the trip to Africa either, it is indeed a new show.
MOBflyer From United States of America, joined Sep 2007, 1209 posts, RR: 5 Reply 9, posted (4 years 4 months 2 days 10 hours ago) and read 6650 times:
Quoting JM079 (Reply 6): Is the 757 configured to accomodate the president in a smaller scale as the 747?
The 757 typically carries the Vice President or First Lady, but does occasionally accommodate the president to places where the 747 is operationally impossible.
EMBQA From United States of America, joined Oct 2003, 9292 posts, RR: 13 Reply 10, posted (4 years 4 months 2 days 9 hours ago) and read 6537 times:
Quoting 787luvr (Reply 8): The show airing this Sunday is not about the trip to Africa either, it is indeed a new show.
Correct.. that was filmed this past summer and was just shown on the History Channel. The show Sunday was filmed this fall and includes Barrack Obamas flight on the VC-32...which was his first trip to DC to have his security meeings after the election
Dalb777 From United States of America, joined May 2005, 2192 posts, RR: 0 Reply 11, posted (4 years 4 months 2 days 9 hours ago) and read 6527 times:
Quoting NWAESC (Reply 3): It's been on a few times already... For those of you who haven't yet seen it, you won't be disappointed.
Quoting NWAESC (Reply 7): The one I'm talking about was made much more recently.
Quoting 787luvr (Reply 8): The show airing this Sunday is not about the trip to Africa either, it is indeed a new show.
The one about the trip to Africa, called Secret Access: Air Force One, came out sometime last Fall on the History Channel. This one being talked about here, called On Board Air Force One, is on the National Geographic Channel, and has never been seen before. On Monday, the go on board Marine One.
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NWAESC From United States of America, joined Aug 2007, 3324 posts, RR: 9 Reply 12, posted (4 years 4 months 2 days 9 hours ago) and read 6508 times:
Quoting 787luvr (Reply 8): The show airing this Sunday is not about the trip to Africa either, it is indeed a new show.
Quoting EMBQA (Reply 10): Correct.. that was filmed this past summer and was just shown on the History Channel. The show Sunday was filmed this fall and includes Barrack Obamas flight on the VC-32...which was his first trip to DC to have his security meeings after the election
Quoting Dalb777 (Reply 11): The one about the trip to Africa, called Secret Access: Air Force One, came out sometime last Fall on the History Channel. This one being talked about here, called On Board Air Force One, is on the National Geographic Channel, and has never been seen before. On Monday, the go on board Marine One.
Got it.... One more thing to set the recorder for...
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ElBandGeek From United States of America, joined Jun 2008, 735 posts, RR: 0 Reply 13, posted (4 years 4 months 2 days 8 hours ago) and read 6496 times:
I saw the preview the other day......already set the tivo
SuseJ772 From United States of America, joined Aug 2005, 625 posts, RR: 1 Reply 18, posted (4 years 4 months 11 hours ago) and read 4835 times:
I loved the show. I was amazed when they had video of the upstairs part including the cockpit and communications console. I thought for sure that was off limits. I about fell off my couch when I saw that. Plus they went in the "attic" of the plane and showed some of that as well which I thought was top secret.
NatGeo did an amazing job with this one.
Hearing the story of 9/11 on AF1 and the secret trip to Iraq was some of the best TV I have ever seen.
Flybulldog From United States of America, joined Aug 2000, 365 posts, RR: 0 Reply 19, posted (4 years 4 months 10 hours ago) and read 4814 times:
I was more surprised watching the show about Marine One. I had no idea there were so many helicopters that flew with the President. I thought there was only 1 Marine One helicopter in the fleet. It seems like there's always 1 or 3 decoys, 2 support copters and several CH63 craft.
SEPilot From United States of America, joined Dec 2006, 6261 posts, RR: 39 Reply 20, posted (4 years 4 months 9 hours ago) and read 4784 times:
Quoting EMBQA (Reply 10): The show Sunday was filmed this fall and includes Barrack Obamas flight on the VC-32...which was his first trip to DC to have his security meeings after the election
I watched the show, and I was pretty sure that it was the VC-25 that picked up Obama in Chicago; the promo said it would have Obama's first flight on it. The VC-32 may have taken him to Hawaii and elsewhere between the election and inauguration, but the scene where they asked him what he wanted for dinner did not look like it was in a 757.
Quoting SuseJ772 (Reply 18):
Hearing the story of 9/11 on AF1 and the secret trip to Iraq was some of the best TV I have ever seen.
I especially liked it when they tried to impersonate a Gulfstream and some other pilot came on the air and asked if it was AF1, and was told no, it's a Gulfstream. The pilot obviously must have figured out what was going on and shut up; if he was close enough to even suspect that it was AF1 he would have been SURE that it warn't no Gulfstream.
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EMBQA From United States of America, joined Oct 2003, 9292 posts, RR: 13 Reply 21, posted (4 years 4 months 7 hours ago) and read 4739 times:
Quoting SEPilot (Reply 20): I watched the show, and I was pretty sure that it was the VC-25 that picked up Obama in Chicago; the promo said it would have Obama's first flight on it. The VC-32 may have taken him to Hawaii
Nope... for his National Security Briefing just after the election he was taken to DC on a VC-32.... he was taken to HNL on a chartered UAL 757.
"It's not the size of the dog in the fight, but the size of the fight in the dog"
SEPilot From United States of America, joined Dec 2006, 6261 posts, RR: 39 Reply 22, posted (4 years 4 months 7 hours ago) and read 4725 times:
Quoting EMBQA (Reply 21): Nope... for his National Security Briefing just after the election he was taken to DC on a VC-32.... he was taken to HNL on a chartered UAL 757.
OK. But I'm quite sure the flight to Washington for the inauguration that was depicted on the program in question was on the VC-25.
The problem with making things foolproof is that fools are so doggone ingenious...Dan Keebler
Moose135 From United States of America, joined Oct 2004, 2009 posts, RR: 12 Reply 23, posted (4 years 4 months 7 hours ago) and read 4725 times:
Quoting SEPilot (Reply 20): I watched the show, and I was pretty sure that it was the VC-25 that picked up Obama in Chicago; the promo said it would have Obama's first flight on it. The VC-32 may have taken him to Hawaii and elsewhere between the election and inauguration, but the scene where they asked him what he wanted for dinner did not look like it was in a 757.
Beyond the news reports stating that he traveled on the C-32 from Chicago to DC, if you watch the scene when he comes up the stairs and onto the aircraft, you can clearly see the winglet on the port wing. The C-32s now have winglets, the VC-25 doesn't.
ZANL188 From United States of America, joined Oct 2006, 3250 posts, RR: 0 Reply 24, posted (4 years 4 months 5 hours ago) and read 4692 times:
Quoting Moose135 (Reply 23): if you watch the scene when he comes up the stairs and onto the aircraft, you can clearly see the winglet on the port wing.
Not to mention the narrow 757 door he enters through. Without a doubt it's the C-32.
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25 BlueElephant: You are 100% correct...he has only flown on the 757 Variety (C-32) I complained about this on Friday in another thread.
26 N104UA: I just watched it and it is a very well done piece and they told more then I thought that they would, like about the "attic" and also showing the jamm
27 EMBQA: Nope....he has not flown on the VC-25 yet. The flight shown on the show was a VC-32 for his National Security Briefing in December... he took a train
28 Moose135: It was likely someplace that would be "politically sensitive" to have a VC-25 drop into. I don't think Turkey fits; we've had a USAF base at Incerlik
29 N104UA: in December he flew AA he did fly to AFW in early January and he only took the train from PHL so he did fly to DC for the inauguration
30 Drewfly: The flight shown was January 5th, when he officially moved to DC (only reason the VC-32 was there). All other flights as PE were on commercial. AA MD
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