Idle question about aircraft in movies

In article ,
John Clear wrote:

A temporary vinyl decal is alot cheaper then doing it in post-production,
and 'automatically' looks correct in every shot. Adding it in post, they
need to worry about getting the angles of everything right, shadows, etc.

Ah, thanks for the correction. I didn't realize that digital changes
were that complicated.

I know for the movie 'Air Force One', they rented a cargo 747 and
painted it up as AF1. It caused a bit of confusion when it showed
up at various airports without POTUS and friends.

I'll bet it did!


Patty

"Patty Winter" wrote in message
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I know for the movie 'Air Force One', they rented a cargo 747 and
painted it up as AF1. It caused a bit of confusion when it showed
up at various airports without POTUS and friends.

Yeah, I bet there were some puzzled people. Not least because, as I
understand it, Air Force One is not a specific aircraft, but the callsign
for an aircraft that happens to be carrying the POTUS. So this thing would
be flying all over the place under a boring old call-sign (which,
presumably, AF1 could do when the POTUS wasn't on board). Similarly, you
have lesser designations such as Air Force Two, etc, for less senior VIPs.

If that's true, wouldn't it be kinda fun if the POTUS was learning to fly?
"Ah, Washington Tower, Air Force One, Cessna 152, hangar 12 apron, request
taxi" ...

(And aren't there two 747s done out all posh, incidentally?).

D.

On Wed, 3 Aug 2005 11:17:57 +0000 (UTC), "David Cartwright"
wrote:

If that's true, wouldn't it be kinda fun if the POTUS was learning to fly?
"Ah, Washington Tower, Air Force One, Cessna 152, hangar 12 apron, request
taxi" ...

Depending on who actually owned the 152, the call sign would probably be
"Executive One" or even "General Aviation One." The plane is called "Air Force
One" only when it's an Air Force aircraft...hence Marine One for the
helicopters, "Navy One" when he flew onto the carrier in the S-3, etc.

Ron Wanttaja

"Ron Wanttaja" wrote in message
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Depending on who actually owned the 152, the call sign would probably be
"Executive One" or even "General Aviation One."


When the President is aboard a civil aircraft, any civil aircraft, the
callsign is "Executive One."

When the President is aboard a civil aircraft, any civil aircraft, the
callsign is "Executive One."

Any idea what decade it was the last time that happened?

"Fred G. Black" wrote in message
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When the President is aboard a civil aircraft, any civil aircraft, the
callsign is "Executive One."

Any idea what decade it was the last time that happened?


The eighth decade of the twentieth century.

"Fred G. Black" writes:


When the President is aboard a civil aircraft, any civil aircraft, the
callsign is "Executive One."

Any idea what decade it was the last time that happened?


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the gas crunch. It was a stunt, of course, since they were tailed
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"Patty Winter" wrote in message
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I know for the movie 'Air Force One', they rented a cargo 747 and
painted it up as AF1. It caused a bit of confusion when it showed
up at various airports without POTUS and friends.

(just for the record, that wasn't my quote.)

In article ,
David Cartwright wrote:

(And aren't there two 747s done out all posh, incidentally?).

Yes. AF 28000 and AF 29000.

http://www.af.mil/factsheets/factsheet.asp?fsID=131

I live near a federal airfield, so I've seen AF1 a number of
times. I'm not close enough to be able to read the tail number
with my bincoculars, though. I've also seen AF2; in fact, I
have a photo of both of them in the air after they took off
from Moffett Field once, one shortly after the other. I've also
seen Marine 1. I don't know how many of those there are, or how
they're transported from city to city to be available to the
president when he's visiting a certain area.


Patty

David Cartwright wrote:

If that's true, wouldn't it be kinda fun if the POTUS was learning to fly?
"Ah, Washington Tower, Air Force One, Cessna 152, hangar 12 apron, request
taxi" ...

if the POTUS were riding a civilian aircraft, the proper callsign
would be 'Executive One', wouldn't it?

--Sylvain

"Sylvain" wrote in message
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if the POTUS were riding a civilian aircraft, the proper callsign
would be 'Executive One', wouldn't it?


Yes.