And what country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
At the AF museum in Dayton OH you can see several of the past Air Force One's and you can stand in the one where LBJ took the oath of office. I cannot say enough about that free museum! Well worth the trip..
I love the AF Museum! I was stationed at Wright-Patterson twice and played tour guide at the museum many times. Once for a Boy Scout troop that came down with my uncle and cousin. A school there had some foreign students. The host organization took them to Washington DC , in part to see the Smithsonian Air & Space Museum. I blurted out, 'there's a better museum across the street!'
It is a great museum. I grew up next door in Indiana and first went with my dad almost 60 years ago. In 1982 several of us AFROTC students from IU went to Wright-Patterson AFB Clothing Sales to buy uniforms for our upcoming commissioning as butter bars, and we included a visit to the museum. I think that I have visited only one time since. I need to go again as it has greatly expanded.
Ice builds up on the prop and gets flung off into the fuselage denting the skin. Some aircraft have composite shields to protect the skin. Al_in_Ottawa
No president prior to Eisenhower had an “Air Force One.”
The aircraft pictured is VC-118, a modified DC-6 airliner named after Truman’s home town of Independence MO that replaced FDR’s C-54 Sacred Cow. It was retired when Truman left office, and President Eisenhower used a VC-121 Lockheed Constellation he named Columbine II. (As a general officer he had used another Constellation that he called Columbine I).
Columbine II had tail number 48-8610, and in flight used call sign “Air Force 8610” in keeping with Air Force practice. However in 1954 Air Force 8610 entered the same controlled airspace as Eastern Airlines Flight 8610, and the similar call signs caused confusion. The “Air Force One” call sign was then adopted to avoid confusion in the future.
Thus Ike had the first presidential aircraft called “Air Force One.”
At the AF museum in Dayton OH you can see several of the past Air Force One's and you can stand in the one where LBJ took the oath of office.
ReplyDeleteI cannot say enough about that free museum! Well worth the trip..
Absolutely coolest museum I have ever been in, even my wife thought it was cool and she was not thrilled with the idea of going.
DeleteI love the AF Museum! I was stationed at Wright-Patterson twice and played tour guide at the museum many times. Once for a Boy Scout troop that came down with my uncle and cousin.
DeleteA school there had some foreign students. The host organization took them to Washington DC , in part to see the Smithsonian Air & Space Museum. I blurted out, 'there's a better museum across the street!'
AF Museum = Last best FREE thing in America. Parking’s free too.
DeleteIt is a great museum. I grew up next door in Indiana and first went with my dad almost 60 years ago. In 1982 several of us AFROTC students from IU went to Wright-Patterson AFB Clothing Sales to buy uniforms for our upcoming commissioning as butter bars, and we included a visit to the museum. I think that I have visited only one time since. I need to go again as it has greatly expanded.
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ReplyDeleteWhy is it so beat up?
ReplyDeleteIce builds up on the prop and gets flung off into the fuselage denting the skin. Some aircraft have composite shields to protect the skin.
DeleteAl_in_Ottawa
Thank you for the info.
DeleteNo president prior to Eisenhower had an “Air Force One.”
ReplyDeleteThe aircraft pictured is VC-118, a modified DC-6 airliner named after Truman’s home town of Independence MO that replaced FDR’s C-54 Sacred Cow. It was retired when Truman left office, and President Eisenhower used a VC-121 Lockheed Constellation he named Columbine II. (As a general officer he had used another Constellation that he called Columbine I).
Columbine II had tail number 48-8610, and in flight used call sign “Air Force 8610” in keeping with Air Force practice. However in 1954 Air Force 8610 entered the same controlled airspace as Eastern Airlines Flight 8610, and the similar call signs caused confusion. The “Air Force One” call sign was then adopted to avoid confusion in the future.
Thus Ike had the first presidential aircraft called “Air Force One.”
During flight