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Post by RonMiller on Jan 18, 2005 0:11:53 GMT -7
What plane was Air Force One's smallest one to be used for a President?
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Post by jetmex on Jan 18, 2005 13:56:55 GMT -7
If you don't count the Wright biplane in which Theodore Roosevelt flew:
Depending on your choice of aircraft, this could either be the Bell UH-13J Sioux helicopter that Eisenhower used in 1957, or the Beech VC-6A King Air that Lyndon Johnson used to get from his ranch to Bergstrom AFB in the mid 60's.
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Post by RonMiller on Jan 18, 2005 14:11:45 GMT -7
According to my source neither is correct so far Jaime.
I mean as far as a designated air force one by name that is.
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Post by Britbrat on Jan 18, 2005 14:38:45 GMT -7
Choices -- choices -- Perhaps FDR's DC-4/C54, or Truman's DC-6, or Eisenhower's Connie?
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Post by RonMiller on Jan 18, 2005 15:56:01 GMT -7
Not yet anyway... keep guessing.
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Post by Grnbrt on Jan 18, 2005 16:05:25 GMT -7
JFK's piper cub J-3 that he used to go see his many Mistress's. What do I win?  ;D ;D ;D |
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Post by RonMiller on Jan 18, 2005 17:39:03 GMT -7
OOooo Art.. You are a winner. Please send your credit card info for verification and you'll get your prize shortly  |
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Post by jetmex on Jan 19, 2005 11:19:46 GMT -7
Doh! The Cub!
BTW-- Air Force One is not a designation for any specific aircraft, it is the call sign assigned to any USAF aircraft carrying the President. A C-130 used the designation when Bush visited Iraq last year. The S-3 Viking that flew him aboard a carrier a while back was, of course, Navy One, while the helicopter that flies him to and from the White House is Marine One. Does anyone happen to know if there is or has been an "Army One"?
The name is so asscociated with the VC-25 aircraft that usually carries this designation that some people actually think the airplane is an Air Force One!
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Post by RonMiller on Jan 19, 2005 12:30:00 GMT -7
Actually, I was joking with art.. hard to do it with letters on a forum.. he wanted to know what he won. What I was going by was listed in the Mid America Air Museum in Liberal, Ks. Here is a link to the site. To read what they say on the air force one, go to the alphabetical list of aircraft and then click on the Aero Comander L-26. www.liberalairmuseum.com/index.html |
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