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Peter Bichier
Joined: 25 Aug 2008
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Location: Toledo, Ohio
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 Posted: Tue Oct 07, 2008 10:53 am Post subject: The Flying White House |
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Hi everyone,
John Towner kindly sent me three pages from "The Flying White House" book which talks how President Eisenhower pressured his secret services to get him an airplane to go to his Gettysburg, Penn. farm in 1955.
you should be able to read the pages well enough, if it's too small, just use the zoom function on the album viewer.
There are lots of trivia in there, for ex., the present colors of AF1 might have been heavily influenced by that very first 560 leased by Ike (N2724B) ironically, just seven 560s earlier was the one my father owned...!
enjoy, and thanks John for sending that along.
http://picasaweb.google.com/YVABE560/TheFlyingWhiteHouse?pli=1&gsessionid=Ia4iFemwr1aeiodiJDDHiQ#
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Peter Bichier
Joined: 25 Aug 2008
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Location: Toledo, Ohio
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| Posted: Tue Oct 07, 2008 11:45 am Post subject: The Flying White House |
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John Towner can't post on the forum so I'll add this for him.
He thinks President Eisenhower found out about the Aero Commander when they flew it from PWA-DCA on one engine and it gained National attention. (I will add then, the publicity stunt worked!)
He also have heard that Ike was a pilot and obtained his private pilots license in a Stearman when he was a young man.
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