What a fun experience! I, like you, would have been more impressed by the plane!
We were at Niagra Falls last month. It was beautiful, still tons of ice and mist. It was a cold visit, but worthwhile.
I second the Bush in a Barrel idea!
We saw the President today
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Mulan
Glad to hear you made it home ok. What fun you must have had.
Yes, it was great. We had a wonderful visit with some very good friends, and laughed until our sides ached.
The morning we left Niagara Falls, we drove out to see Niagara by the Lake, a small town on Lake Ontario. As we got closer to the town, it got more and more foggy. Then it got dark, like night. It was about 11 AM but dark like it was 7PM and raining. We ducked into a coffee place to get some coffee, and I asked the woman inside why it was so dark. She shrugged her shoulders and said there was a tornado coming. She said it so casually. I have not been near one and was freaked out. We decided to get out of town and back to the U.S.A.
Well.............the storm had been behind us I think, because on the way back to the Falls, we saw uprooted trees along the road, big branches all over a golf course and in yards, benches turned over, and it began to hail marble sized hail, and lightening like I had never seen before. The wind and rain and thunder were unbelievable. We had to pull over for awhile because the windshield wipers could not keep up so we could see. I really wanted to shop around in that town, but there was no way we were staying. By the time we got to the U.S. border, it seemed like everyone in Niagara Falls had decided to leave, so we were in a border line for over an hour. Quite an experience.
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czarofmischief
AF1 is so big and complex because the President needs to fly around the country and be able to communicate, host foreign dignitaries, hold press conferences, all at the same time. It dates from the Cold War when the conceivable need during a nuclear war was that the President would have to run what was left of the country from in the air.
A big slow jumbo jet full of important people will need better than average security. While a lear jet with Blair might be all he needs as he hops from Edinburgh to London; the President could have meetings in D.C., St. Louis, Chicago, and San Fran within a two day period, and still need to run the day to day business - hence a comfortable plane.
I hate taxes, but I can see the need for a big plane like that. Even America alone is too huge for the Lear Jet idea, let alone NATO and NAFTA and all the other people we have to shake hands with these days. We are 3,000 miles across, have 350 million people, so it will take better than average equipment to guard us.
CZAR
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maxwell
I think its a cool plane. There was a documentary on the plane that played on PBS several times. It's an amazing operation to move the president. I've never seen the plane, but I've seen his helicopter Marine One flying in and out of DC to Andrews Air Force Base where the president gets on AF1.
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SixofNine
Since I don't get many chances to agree with Czar, I better take this one. I agree with Czar....
...but is there any way we could make an exception for this president?
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For Six
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Sunspot
**Spring hasn't arrived in Buffalo yet. Not a green thing in site, and no leaves on the trees, and the daffodils are just starting to open. Tulips are budding, but no blooms yet. I was happy to get home to the GREEN Pacific Northwest.**
TELL me about it! LOL!
My poor daffodils have had heavy buds on them for weeks.....but they are out today, along with my Hyacinths----YAY!
We DID have a couple of bad storms, we watched on the Weather Channel to track the radar to see when it would hit....a couple of towns over had a tornado hit but we just had that eerie-colored sky, lots of rain and WIND! We're 60 miles of Rochester!
My SIL in Spokane sends me pics of her spring flowers....makes MY "wait" so much LONGER :(
hugs,
Annie
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Frannie Banannie
Oh, Mulan, my sympathies, chere How IS ol' "Mini-Me", btw? We used to live near Andrews AFB in Maryland and got to see it alla time. It's a hoot!
Frannie B
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TresHappy
Mulan, how cool is that? I saw President Ford when I was 13 years old, throwing out the first pitch at a Texas Ranger game. AND...I thought that was the coolest thing...
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natalienu
The president of the USA is a giant knob.
