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I was noticing a photo from a recent stop in Ohio from the Obama campaign and it seems as though he is flying in a 737 (perhaps a 777? I don't know airplanes enough to spot the differences, but I am smart enough to not see a second level). http://www.latimes.com/news/politics/la-pn-obama-air-force-one-20121025,0,891073.story Image: http://www.trbimg.com/img-5089eb12/turbine/la-pn-obama-air-force-one-20121025-001/600
Obviously any military craft the president is flying in becomes "Air Force One" but is this a part of the AF1 fleet? ☠ Travis "TeamColtra" McCrea ☠ - (T) (C) 08:40, 27 October 2012 (UTC)
News video and a documentary showed Obama being flown from Chicago to Washington for his first inauguration in 2009 and described him as flying on "Air Force One"; it was a C-32 not the VC-25 and it couldnt have been AF-1 since he wasnt President yet. Another example of the clueless media. Bob80q ( talk) 05:04, 20 January 2013 (UTC)
VC-9C was another aircraft that served as a both an Air Force One but more commonly as an Air Force Two. This aircraft is rear engined and appears similar to a Super 80 model [2]. It would be great to add more on this to the article. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.143.229.211 ( talk)
The U.S. military indeed uses DMY format, but Air Force One is a subject that goes beyond the U.S. military, concerning the presidency. Articles relating to the presidenchy and the rest of the country uses MDY. Per MOS:DATETIES, I believe this article should be in MDY. – Muboshgu ( talk) 19:49, 5 December 2016 (UTC)
The article says in section "Boeing 707s and entry to jet age":
"Toward the end of Eisenhower's second term, Secretary of State John Foster Dulles commented that Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev and other senior Soviet officials had begun using the technologically advanced Tupolev Tu-114 aircraft for their travels, and it was no longer dignified for the president to fly in a propeller-driven aircraft."
In this form the argument makes no sense because the Tu-114 is a propeller plane (and this was also the case for the one Khrushchev used). 83.93.38.219 ( talk) 20:11, 19 August 2023 (UTC)
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I was noticing a photo from a recent stop in Ohio from the Obama campaign and it seems as though he is flying in a 737 (perhaps a 777? I don't know airplanes enough to spot the differences, but I am smart enough to not see a second level). http://www.latimes.com/news/politics/la-pn-obama-air-force-one-20121025,0,891073.story Image: http://www.trbimg.com/img-5089eb12/turbine/la-pn-obama-air-force-one-20121025-001/600
Obviously any military craft the president is flying in becomes "Air Force One" but is this a part of the AF1 fleet? ☠ Travis "TeamColtra" McCrea ☠ - (T) (C) 08:40, 27 October 2012 (UTC)
News video and a documentary showed Obama being flown from Chicago to Washington for his first inauguration in 2009 and described him as flying on "Air Force One"; it was a C-32 not the VC-25 and it couldnt have been AF-1 since he wasnt President yet. Another example of the clueless media. Bob80q ( talk) 05:04, 20 January 2013 (UTC)
VC-9C was another aircraft that served as a both an Air Force One but more commonly as an Air Force Two. This aircraft is rear engined and appears similar to a Super 80 model [2]. It would be great to add more on this to the article. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.143.229.211 ( talk)
The U.S. military indeed uses DMY format, but Air Force One is a subject that goes beyond the U.S. military, concerning the presidency. Articles relating to the presidenchy and the rest of the country uses MDY. Per MOS:DATETIES, I believe this article should be in MDY. – Muboshgu ( talk) 19:49, 5 December 2016 (UTC)
The article says in section "Boeing 707s and entry to jet age":
"Toward the end of Eisenhower's second term, Secretary of State John Foster Dulles commented that Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev and other senior Soviet officials had begun using the technologically advanced Tupolev Tu-114 aircraft for their travels, and it was no longer dignified for the president to fly in a propeller-driven aircraft."
In this form the argument makes no sense because the Tu-114 is a propeller plane (and this was also the case for the one Khrushchev used). 83.93.38.219 ( talk) 20:11, 19 August 2023 (UTC)