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You can step inside the first jet-powered Air Force One in the Museum of Flight in Seattle. It’s fully stocked, with meeting rooms and communication equipment a
by w-m 2y ago
You can step inside the first jet-powered Air Force One in the Museum of Flight in Seattle. It’s fully stocked, with meeting rooms and communication equipment and all. My favorite part is the fake temperature control:
> President Johnson was finicky about room temperature and when he was VP and developed a habit of haranguing the flight crew about lowering or raising the cabin temperature. After a while the crew got tired of his shenanigans, so they installed a “fake” temperature control in the Conference Room. This appeasement was successful, and Johnson was so pleased with manipulating the controls himself that he didn’t even notice when the temperature remained the same.
https://blog.museumofflight.org/quirks-of-the-first-jet-powered-air-force-one https://blog.museumofflight.org/quirks-of-the-first-jet-powe...
- rtkwe 2y agoThe Airforce Museum in Ohio also has a few different early Air Force Ones including at least one you can walk through. https://www.nationalmuseum.af.mil/Visit/Museum-Exhibits/Presidential-Gallery/ https://www.nationalmuseum.af.mil/Visit/Museum-Exhibits/Pres...
- kayodelycaon 2y agoI’m pretty there are two you can walk through. I only remember because the smaller one was a really tight squeeze.
- rtkwe 2y agoI remember two yeah I took a 360 cam through them and some day I might chop it up and run it through some photogrammetry to try to make a model of the insides.
- dphidt 2y agoTen total presidential aircraft and four you can walk through at the Dayton USAF museum [1]! You can walk through SAM 26000, the VC-137C used by 8 presidents including Kennedy. Amazing collection. [1] https://www.nationalmuseum.af.mil/Visit/Museum-Exhibits/Presidential-Gallery/ https://www.nationalmuseum.af.mil/Visit/Museum-Exhibits/Pres...
- arethuza 2y agoSAM 26000 must be one of the most historic aircraft in the world - being the place Lyndon B. Johnson was sworn in after the assassination of JFK: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VC-137C_SAM_26000 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VC-137C_SAM_26000
- practicemaths 2y agoThey also have a rather large space museum. Unfortunately a lot it is filled with old rockets though.
- whartung 2y agoRonald Reagan Presidential Library has the last 707 model. Just as an exhibit, and the hoops they had to jump through to install the plane, are remarkable all in themselves.
- mtsolitary 2y agoThey also have a portrait of the Gipper made from his favourite snack: Jelly Beans!
- bcrosby95 2y agoA friend used to work there. Everything anyone sent to Reagan is in there somewhere.
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- bagels 2y agoThey'd have to get me a fake thermometer too.
- walrus01 2y agoFor anyone who hasn't been there, I'd highly recommend visiting the Museum of Flight at Boeing Field in general, not just for the Air Force One, but for many other fascinating exhibits. Great place for a very "Seattle" experience if you're not from the Pacific Northwest, and historical info on Seattle as home of Boeing.
- usefulcat 2y agoJust like the temperature controls in some offices I've worked in.
- alexey-salmin 2y agoOh wait, that's the "abominable shower" guy!