The fighter jets were kept busy last weekend when President Bush was at his
ranch here in Texas. It seemed once every hour you would hear them come
screaming in on afterburner to herd someone away or force them to land.
There were so many incursions that the normal 10 mile no fly zone around
TSTC airport during the President's departure was expanded to 30 miles.
Even after he left for at least another hour the police were blocking
taxiways here at KACT (Waco Regional), not letting anybody taxi in or out.
Finally a GV taxied out and left (First Lady going back to D.C.?) and we
were all turned loose to go about our business.

--
*H. Allen Smith*
WACO - We are all here, because we are not all there.

"Ricky" wrote in message
oups.com...

The "Saw John Trovolta's Plane" thread got me thinking about
inaccessibility of celebs but nothing compares to the way Bush is
protected from us normal folk!

I'm an A&P student here at Texas State Technical College and our
campus is the old James Connally Air Force Base (Waco, TX.). When Bush
goes to & from Crawford, Air Force One lands & parks here as Waco
Regional's runways are too short for a 747. He then takes Air Force 2
(big helicopter) out to or from his ranch, flanked by several other
mean looking choppers as well as identical decoys, I assume.