"Air Force One practice landings" Topic
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capncarp | 04 Feb 2016 10:59 a.m. PST |
Harrisburg Int. Airport is apparently a relocation site for POTUS. The PA Air Nat'l Guard base is where the crew is currently practicing "touch and go" landings/takeoffs with one of the planes that would be A. F.One, were the Prez aboard. |
Kelly Armstrong | 04 Feb 2016 11:06 a.m. PST |
Living in the near vicinity of Andrews AFB in Merryland, I'm glad they are doing that somewhere else at least part time! I get to hear the Prez Air Force way too much. Along with the big transport squadrons that come in for training. |
zoneofcontrol | 04 Feb 2016 7:38 p.m. PST |
For disclosing such sensitive information about Air Farce One, Capncarp will now be hosted to a congressional interview and IRS spring cleaning. |
capncarp | 04 Feb 2016 11:06 p.m. PST |
Shucks, Zone, I mean only me and several dozen thousand Central Pennsylvanians on their lunch breaks could see it. |
Andrew Walters | 05 Feb 2016 9:21 a.m. PST |
Harrisburg was probably chosen for a combination of two other reasons: 1, it's similar in geometry and conditions to the actual relocation strip, which might be inconveniently located, and 2, someone's doing someone a favor by bringing all that money into your area in the form of noise. |
capncarp | 05 Feb 2016 9:30 a.m. PST |
Actually, HIA is listed on a list of diversion sites in the Relocation Arc, along with Hagerstown, MD, and a few others that escape me presently. If such things interest you, there are several websites and links to the topic, including one of my favorites, CONELRAD. Also, Olmstead Air Force Base, now Harrisburg Int'l Airport, was the homebase of a Cold War era "Search and Rescue" unit whose actual mission task and TOE were designed to fly to DC on heavy-lift helicopters in thier lead-impregnated rubber suits to dig the POTUS out of his rubble-covered bunker beneath the nuked White House. |
Lion in the Stars | 05 Feb 2016 7:44 p.m. PST |
Of course the pilots are practicing their touch-and-goes. Gotta make sure you can land so softly that the POTUS's coffee doesn't spill! |
zoneofcontrol | 05 Feb 2016 7:49 p.m. PST |
Capncarp- I live about a half an hour's drive east of there. I used to take the shortcut through Middletown and the back way into Olmstead to get into the Harrisburg airport. I have a few friends who work with the 193rd that flies out of there. |
Sundance | 06 Feb 2016 8:35 p.m. PST |
They've done them here in Johnstown, too. |
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