I just got back from dropping my fiance at the airport. I'd ducked around the back way along Sugarmill Road. Came to the T-intersection and Air Force 1 was sitting there surrounded by police etc. Holy crap, that is a seriously big plane. I particularly like the black lexan looking bubble above and behind the cockpit. Makes me think that it's the presidential sun tan lounge ;) (even though it's probably ELINT/Comms related)
Red, the one I saw had a black "bubble" looking thing behind and above the cockpit. I can't see any pictures of it, but it was definitely on the plane I saw.
True, technically it's only that when either the President or Vice-President respectively are on board.
That definitely looks like the one I saw. You can't tell from the photo, but there's a black canopy in front of the bulge above and behind the cockpit.
There's an episode of Stargate SG-1 where, in an alternate reality, the stargate is public knowledge, and Air Force One is the Prometheus battle cruiser.
It does have guns - aren't there something three fighter jets as an escort wherever it goes?
that's an escape pod
Or a docking port for another 747 when Air Force 1 gets hijacked, the president is being held hostage and Kurt Russell, Steven Seagal and John Leguizamo need to get inside and bust some heads.
Or a docking port for another 747 when Air Force 1 gets hijacked, the president, Harrison Ford, is being held hostage and Kurt Russell, Steven Seagal and John Leguizamo need to get inside and bust some heads.
Ok. If you really want to know what that dome thing is all about, here you go.
Obama has come not in the normal 747 used as "Airforce one". He has come in a specially prepared aircraft known as a Boeing E-4.
The Boeing E-4 Advanced Airborne Command Post, with a project name of "Nightwatch",[2] is an aircraft operated by the United States Air Force (USAF). To create the E-4 series, four Boeing 747-200 airframes were specially modified to serve as a survivable mobile command post for the National Command Authority, namely the President of the United States, the Secretary of Defense, and successors. The four E-4s are operated by the 1st Airborne Command and Control Squadron of the 55th Wing located at Offutt Air Force Base, near Omaha, Nebraska.
And the dorsal hump:
In December 1973 a fourth aircraft was contracted for, which was fitted with more advanced equipment, resulting in the designation E-4B. On 21 December 1979 Boeing delivered the first E-4B (AF Serial Number 75-0125),[3] which was distinguished from the earlier version by the presence of a large "hump" on the dorsal surface directly behind the upper deck. This contains the aircraft's SHF satellite antenna.
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