POTUS will be well insulated/protected on AF1 and abroad (specific locations classified) while these operations are conducted due to the nature of the entrenchment.
Any plane (government ??) that POTUS flies on is automatically declared AF1. If it's a helicopter, then it's Marine1 (assuming he'd only fly one USMC helo's )
I suspect POTUS will actually leave on AF1, but perhaps a switch of planes in secret, that takes him to (maybe his Scotland Golf Club??). Then AF1 could continue to Mara largo. It could unload items they packed up from leaving the WH. No one would know for sure where POTUS really was for awhile. Thoughts??
I don't think he has to call it AF1. That is just the reserved call sign and can only be used when POTUS is on board of ANY aircraft to give priority spacing requirements. I flew out of an Airforce base years ago at the AERO Club as a civilian instructor (CFII), which was basically flight training available for anyone in the service. They had to pay it, but we flew C-172 (Cessna small plane) military designation as T-41. We could, if we wanted, request a call sign. One of the guys (a retired Colonel) that ran the club, requested Airforce Number 1. It was granted, and the controllers at the base knew, but when we flew a trip from Texas to Mississippi with that call sign and we had priority tasking the whole trip, cruising along at 9,000 ft and 120 knots. Good times.
Q#34 and Q#35
What do you mean? Use the call sign??
Any plane (government ??) that POTUS flies on is automatically declared AF1. If it's a helicopter, then it's Marine1 (assuming he'd only fly one USMC helo's )
Yes but that’s normal. To fly one last time on AF1 isn’t it? What am I missing?
It is also a command center with emp proof nuke launching code carrying goodness all around him
I suspect POTUS will actually leave on AF1, but perhaps a switch of planes in secret, that takes him to (maybe his Scotland Golf Club??). Then AF1 could continue to Mara largo. It could unload items they packed up from leaving the WH. No one would know for sure where POTUS really was for awhile. Thoughts??
Newbie here: He also is rolling our the "Red Carpet" Could Red Carpet and AF (1) be the Red 1 ?
Basically and he stays up, and the plane remains Air Force 1, the symbol of the president.
And he does not come back down.
So he absconds with the plane???? LOL The Dems heads would explode!
Q in one of the drops said, Potus would be safe aboard AF1 and abroad when it all goes down.
"Biden is set to be sworn-in outside the U.S. Capitol at 12 noon in a scaled-back ceremony." Yeah, all the way back.
I don't think he has to call it AF1. That is just the reserved call sign and can only be used when POTUS is on board of ANY aircraft to give priority spacing requirements. I flew out of an Airforce base years ago at the AERO Club as a civilian instructor (CFII), which was basically flight training available for anyone in the service. They had to pay it, but we flew C-172 (Cessna small plane) military designation as T-41. We could, if we wanted, request a call sign. One of the guys (a retired Colonel) that ran the club, requested Airforce Number 1. It was granted, and the controllers at the base knew, but when we flew a trip from Texas to Mississippi with that call sign and we had priority tasking the whole trip, cruising along at 9,000 ft and 120 knots. Good times.
This doesn’t sound good.
Au contraire; Air Force One is one of the safest places for him to be.
I understand that but the comment about leaving as ex president is what I was talking about.
Ex? He's leaving while he's still president, before the military officially takes charge.
I know but there was a comment that he didn’t want to wait until noon when he would be the ex president.
Of the UNITED STATES corporation
I did hear something on x-22 report about keeping him insulated.
I don't read it that way at all.
I hope I’m reading it wrong. I hope you are right.
CNN: "according to a person familiar with the matter." Expected that before even clicking the link...