Photos: President Bush lands on USS Abraham Lincoln

[chainsaw]

I'd like to hear Clinton views on this landing on a carrier. I'll bet he's pulling his hair out because he didn't think of it. Then again maybe Clinton was too chicken to try it.

[isthisnickcool]

Info on "W"''s transportation today

[capitan_refugio]

I haven't read the whole thread yet, and maybe somebody else has commented on this, but I bet the Secret Service was having a cow. I can just imagine how many pairs of Secret Service underwear had to be changed when the President informed them he was going to make an arrested landing on an aircraft carrier underway in the Pacific!

[The Right Stuff]

Dig those handsome Navy pilots - I wish I were 20 again and unmarried!

[Delta 21]

OutStanding!!

I just found my new desktop!! I need higher resolution shots! More pixels!!

[rs79bm]

[clintonh8r]

Thanks and keep 'em coming!

[capitan_refugio]

"Keep in mind, that ANY aircraft that contains the President, is Air Force One for that mission."

Not so! Only if it is an Air Force plane. The President's Marine Corps chopper is called "Marine One."

So it stands to reason that the jet he landed in on the deck of the Lincoln was "Navy One."

[aruanan]

I believe it was Astro Turf. Makes sense, carpet stains too easily.

Yes, I thought something looked awry as I typed that. Wouldn't Astro Turf be awfully hard on the back? Of course, it wouldn't have been his back so what would he care?

[two23]

[Wright is right!]

"My cousin is married to a former REO on a F-14 Tomcat. On one takeoff, the pilot forgot to put down the flaps, and they went down before they went up after launch. Supposedly my cousin's husband was mad at the pilot for forgetting and it was an apparently a "close one"."

That's extremely difficult to do in today's Navy. There are officers on the deck whose job it is to spot anything amiss about the aircraft before it is cleared to go. Any aircraft on the cat with zero degrees flaps is going to get noticed, big time. Perhaps the incident in question involved not ENOUGH flaps, but I seriously doubt that they would launch an F-14 with no flaps deployed and someone didn't catch it. That's just one of the really obvious things.

Michael

[BigLittle]

Same here, an't wait to pull the lever again. Great Pix!!

[al_c]

According to our "friends" on DU, this was merely a photo op.

LOL!

[clintonh8r]

DU....where shame takes a holiday.....

[BigLittle]

I'd like to hear Clinton views on this landing on a carrier. I'll bet he's pulling his hair out because he didn't think of it. Then again maybe Clinton was too chicken to try it.

Tailhook, tailhook........hmmm that reminds me, I've gotta interview an intern.

Looks like chicken, but tastes like dog!

[alloysteel]

This is OUR President, now. These are not "photo ops", this is "recording for posterity".

[NYFriend]

I believe XXXX One is the call sign of the aircraft carrying the Presidentm and not the technical name of a particular aircraft (though there are designated aircraft that are intended for transporting the President exclusively). There USAF has or had two planes intended for use as Air Force One, at the same time. Marines have several Helo's. It's the cargo that makes it "One". So it's Army One, Marine Corps One, Air Force One, Navy One. Maybe Coast Gaurd One, maybe only in wartime. Marine Corp and Airforce are generally the ones who transport.



VP is XXX Two.

[chainsaw]

They were not routinely landing aircraft there. This one was ferrying in a wing for Fuel Cell training. That is why we had to clean the runway. Up until that point, it had been used for street-racing.

Before you got there and when I was learning to fly, we use to make ground controlled approaches at Chanute. But they always told us not to land and if we received no approach instructions for 30 seconds or more to abort. I live about 40 miles from Chanute. Being in a Cissna and much slower it gave the new air controllers a chance to practice live on us civilians.

[WorkingClassFilth]

What a tryptic! That would sell in poster form.

[bagman]

I think Hollywood has already made a couple of movies. What about "Wag the Dog" and "Deep Throat"?