Originally Posted By: quint
Originally Posted By: earlyre
Originally Posted By: gman2304
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/original-air-force-found-decaying-arizona-article-1.1400350
The original Air Force one. The most beautiful airliner ever built...IMO!
it's replacement, the Columbine III, is at the Museum of the United States Air Force In Dayton,OH, attached to Wright Patterson air base.
http://www.nationalmuseum.af.mil/Visit/M...-columbine-iii/
they have a whole gallery of presidential craft, at least one of each gen of Presidential craft, excluding the Current 747's..
Was just there and walked through every one of them yesterday afternoon. Its about the only perk to living in Ohio, living close to Wright-Patterson AFB.... .
One thing I have taken away after going through the various AF1's multiple times over the years, is that they are a lot more impressive to look at from the outside than you would think they would be on the inside. The insides all seem rather spartan... I know these are well used, decades old planes but I expected a bit more luxury, or grandeur, or something. Functional for what it needs to be, and that's about it, from what I got out of it. Still, very fun and neat to walk through.
Do I recall correctly that the air inlet on the front of the engine pylon supplied air for the bleed air driven turbo compressor? I remember the FAA examiner for my A certification asked something about the air cycle machines on the 707. I remember that engines two, three and four had the turbo compressors.That was a long time ago and I never put a wrench on an airplane.