Talk:Air Force One/Archive 1

If you're wondering why I'm linking stuff to the VC-25A redirect page instead of this one, it's because most of the links are related to the current, specific AF1 model. If the current model changes or the Air Force One page is enhanced to cover earlier models, VC-25A specific stuff should be moved to the VC-25A page. --Markonen

Doomsday Plane

Does anyone out there have any information about the so-called "Doomsday Plane", which was apart of the Air Force One fleet during the Cold War. I would add information about it, but unfortantely I don't have any hard facts. --Mrbrown 07:16, 12 Jun 2004 (UTC)

Are you talking about the NEACP aircraft? kmccoy (talk) 13:12, 13 Jul 2004 (UTC)

British Air Trafic Control?

Does anyone have ny more infomation about the incident with British in traffic control in Nov. 2003?

Can't help you with that, I'm afraid, even though I am British. However, I thought I'd just comment on the paragraph where you say the range is '7,800 miles - half way round the world'. Perhaps it would be best left at 7,800 miles given that half way around the world is, stricly speaking, more like 12,000 miles given that the circumference at the equator is around 24,000 miles. Just a thought - and I'll leave it to you to change the article. Regards Jerry 08:31, 2 Oct 2004 (UTC)

PS - I've just come across this BBC item on the ATC incident. As you'll see there is no suggestion that the US authorities 'lied' to British ATC, however an air traffic controller seems to have told a pilot of a British Airways aircraft (BA isn't mentioned in the BBC News article but is on other pages identified via Google) that what the pilot thought was Air Force 1 was a Gulfstream. It's not clear whether the controller in question actually knew that AF1 was AF1 and I very much doubt whether it would be possible to obtain primary source material which could prove this one way or the other.

"SAM designation"?

So what's a "SAM designation"? It's never explained or linked that I can see. It just pops up in the History section. I'm having a hard time searching for it due to search engine confusion with surface-to-air missiles. -- Cyrius|✎

'Special Air Mission' according to this page [1] Jerry 22:49, 5 Oct 2004 (UTC)

Tom Harris

Who the heck is Tom Harris and why is he an authority about Air Force One? --ZeroOne 21:35, 6 Oct 2004 (UTC)

Tom is the Editorial Director [2] at HowStuffWorks. Besides, who the heck are any of us, and why are we authorities on anything?  :-) --Blrfl

When did Air Force One start?

The article has a sentence that begins 'From its inception' but doesn't say when it was incepted (or indeed why or whether there was any controversy surrounding it). The earliest reference is to 1962, but someone on the FAC page has suggested the Eisenhower had a plane. Could someone elucidate? Jongarrettuk 21:51, 6 Oct 2004 (UTC)