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Obama To Watch Shuttle Launch, Where Will AF1 Land  
User currently offlineHaveBlue From United States of America, joined Jan 2004, 2069 posts, RR: 1
Posted (2 years 4 weeks 1 hour ago) and read 3983 times:

Heard on the news today that President Obama and family will be on hand to watch the shuttle launch next week. Will AF1 land right there on the NASA runway, or will he land at Patricks or MCO and take Marine One over? Unfortunately I'm working Jacksonville that day and overnight, so I'll probably miss all the action anyways.


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User currently offlineKC135TopBoom From United States of America, joined Jan 2005, 11705 posts, RR: 52
Reply 1, posted (2 years 4 weeks 1 hour ago) and read 3972 times:

My guess is he will land at COF. The longest runway is just over 9,000' and it can provide more than enough security for Barry. Then again the runway at TTS is some 15,000' long. I believe Barry has landed there before.

User currently offlineZANL188 From United States of America, joined Oct 2006, 3244 posts, RR: 0
Reply 2, posted (2 years 3 weeks 6 days 22 hours ago) and read 3900 times:		 Support Airliners.net - become a First Class Member!

Quoting HaveBlue (Thread starter):
Will AF1 land right there on the NASA runway

The SLF will surely be closed to support a shuttle RTLS abort.

Not much in the way of facilities to support AF1 there anyhow.


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User currently offlinePC12Fan From United States of America, joined Jan 2007, 2236 posts, RR: 5
Reply 3, posted (2 years 3 weeks 6 days 19 hours ago) and read 3836 times:

Quoting HaveBlue (Thread starter):
Will AF1 land right there on the NASA runway

Extremely doubtful. If the shuttle lands and some kind of crisis comes up, AF1 would be stuck. No way the Secret Service would even allow for that possibility to happen.


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User currently offlineHaveBlue From United States of America, joined Jan 2004, 2069 posts, RR: 1
Reply 4, posted (2 years 3 weeks 6 days 19 hours ago) and read 3819 times:

Quoting ZANL188 (Reply 2):
The SLF will surely be closed to support a shuttle RTLS abort.
Quoting ZANL188 (Reply 2):
Extremely doubtful. If the shuttle lands and some kind of crisis comes up, AF1 would be stuck. No way the Secret Service would even allow for that possibility to happen.

You guys are of course correct. Sometimes I amaze myself at what I forget lol. So Patricks(COF) or MCO or KXMR (Cape Canaveral AFS) which has a 10,000' runway and can support the weight, though I have no idea about accomodations.


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User currently offlineeksath From United States of America, joined Aug 2004, 1135 posts, RR: 27
Reply 5, posted (2 years 3 weeks 6 days 8 hours ago) and read 3671 times:		 AIRLINERS.NET CREW
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A few years ago (2006 i think), Dick Cheney came over for a launch ( I believe we scrubbed because of weather that day) and his plane landed over at Patrick. I remember his armored black Suburban driving by me at KSC. I think i have picture of his convoy driving with the pad with the orbiter sitting on it in the distance. I concur that the SLF will not be available for AF1. The last time time AF1 arrived with the President in 2009 or 2010, it used the SLF.


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User currently offlineHaveBlue From United States of America, joined Jan 2004, 2069 posts, RR: 1
Reply 6, posted (2 years 3 weeks 6 days ago) and read 3523 times:

Quoting eksath (Reply 5):
The last time time AF1 arrived with the President in 2009 or 2010, it used the SLF.

That's true, but the last time a president watched a launch live from down here was Clinton in '98, but I don't know where AF1 parked that time.  


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