Post by red on Sept 14, 2010 21:21:45 GMT
I'm very excited to have FINALLY found on YouTube after several years a NEW (and the ONE & ONLY) video of the USAF's 89th Airlift Wing/Presidential Airlift Group's VC-137C B707-320B SAM 26000 (built 1962 for JFK...the first 707 built SPECIFICALLY for "dedicated" use as Air Force One as the HJG "Aircraft Histories" indicate) landing, with a good dose of reverse thrust, then, taking off, Pratt & Whitneys roaring in Burbank, CA. The plane is being used as Air Force One for President Bill Clinton in January, 1994, and is already in the "Air Force Two" paint scheme (and EXACTLY as the FS9/FSX model of the same plane is rendered here on HJG making it especially "relevant")...4 years after the delivery of the 2 VC-25A B747-200Bs. Not sure why Clinton was using SAM 26000 on this occasion just two years prior to SAM 26000's retirement to the USAF Museum at Wright Patterson AFB in Dayton, OH (the 1972-model "twin" SAM 27000, now at the Reagan Library, hung on until 2001, and last flew as "Air Force One" with President George W. Bush aboard on a flight to his Texas ranch in Crawford, TX in the summer of 2001 soon before it's last flight to San Bernardino, CA for "presentation" to Former First Lady Nancy Reagan).
I do know, according to two AF1 books that I have, that Clinton used both 26000 and 27000 on several occasions, and the infamous occasion where Air Force One ran slightly off the runway and became "stuck in the mud" in a scenario very similar to what happened in the movie "Airport" involved Clinton aboard one of the VC-137Cs...not a 747...and the furious President was transferred to the backup plane...the other VC-137C (resulting in the firing of the Air Force One pilot). But Clinton had a soft spot for both of the VC-137C 707s, obviously for domestic flights, especially this one, SAM 26000, the "JFK plane." Quality still photographs of these planes are fine and good, whether in service, or as static displays, but there's NOTHING...short of a time machine...like being able to view a Broadcast Quality video on YouTube in High Definition at 720p with the speakers turned up LOUD to "see what it would have been like"...and to compare these beautiful, vintage aircraft actually on final approach, touching down, spoilers coming up right by the photographer and thrust reversers engaging, a static shot with doors open and Presidential Seal displayed in the forward door, then a nice taxi shot as SAM 26000 heading back down toward the end of the runway for departure and coming back by you in Full Military Power, and to actually see SMOKE...no "hush-kitting"...and to compare this to the puny, far too quiet planes of today that you can barely hear even if you're 300 yards away from them as they take off, and can only SEE them on their "silent" climbouts!!!
A real piece of history that really grabbed me...I hope some of you enjoy this find as much as I did...the ONE and ONLY color-with-sound video of a VC-137C on all of YouTube (or, anywhere on the entire Internet that I've found so far).
www.youtube.com/watch?v=p0BHNo2Jz-M
To comply with the rules, here is the HJG SAM 26000 on approach to El Toro Marine Corps Air Station, with the San Onofre nuclear power plant visible on the California coastline just down the coast from San Clemente, once home of the Nixon Western White House, "La Casa Pacifica."
Upon reaching El Toro MCAS and deboarding, time to lift off in Marine One, a VH-3D Sea King.
Later in the day, a look back out over the Pratt & Whitneys on a clear day in "CAVU" weather (Ceiling & Visibility Unlimited) over the mountains enroute to Seattle, WA:
I do know, according to two AF1 books that I have, that Clinton used both 26000 and 27000 on several occasions, and the infamous occasion where Air Force One ran slightly off the runway and became "stuck in the mud" in a scenario very similar to what happened in the movie "Airport" involved Clinton aboard one of the VC-137Cs...not a 747...and the furious President was transferred to the backup plane...the other VC-137C (resulting in the firing of the Air Force One pilot). But Clinton had a soft spot for both of the VC-137C 707s, obviously for domestic flights, especially this one, SAM 26000, the "JFK plane." Quality still photographs of these planes are fine and good, whether in service, or as static displays, but there's NOTHING...short of a time machine...like being able to view a Broadcast Quality video on YouTube in High Definition at 720p with the speakers turned up LOUD to "see what it would have been like"...and to compare these beautiful, vintage aircraft actually on final approach, touching down, spoilers coming up right by the photographer and thrust reversers engaging, a static shot with doors open and Presidential Seal displayed in the forward door, then a nice taxi shot as SAM 26000 heading back down toward the end of the runway for departure and coming back by you in Full Military Power, and to actually see SMOKE...no "hush-kitting"...and to compare this to the puny, far too quiet planes of today that you can barely hear even if you're 300 yards away from them as they take off, and can only SEE them on their "silent" climbouts!!!
A real piece of history that really grabbed me...I hope some of you enjoy this find as much as I did...the ONE and ONLY color-with-sound video of a VC-137C on all of YouTube (or, anywhere on the entire Internet that I've found so far).
www.youtube.com/watch?v=p0BHNo2Jz-M
To comply with the rules, here is the HJG SAM 26000 on approach to El Toro Marine Corps Air Station, with the San Onofre nuclear power plant visible on the California coastline just down the coast from San Clemente, once home of the Nixon Western White House, "La Casa Pacifica."
Upon reaching El Toro MCAS and deboarding, time to lift off in Marine One, a VH-3D Sea King.
Later in the day, a look back out over the Pratt & Whitneys on a clear day in "CAVU" weather (Ceiling & Visibility Unlimited) over the mountains enroute to Seattle, WA:
