New Air Force One

chuckp · Dec 28, 2000

Here is a picture of the newly renovated Air Force One for President Elect Bush./w3tcompact/icons/laugh.gif/w3tcompact/icons/laugh.gif

Chuck

Thomas · Dec 28, 2000

Now thats a good one. /w3tcompact/icons/laugh.gif/w3tcompact/icons/wink.gif
Wonder what Gore might look like.

Thomas..NH /w3tcompact/icons/wink.gif

Bird · Dec 28, 2000

Is that what gored Gore?

Bird

ronjhall · Dec 28, 2000

Gore who!

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RJohnson · Dec 28, 2000

Bird,
I guess now that they have horns on his plane, Hilsboro will go ahead with the plans to build that 15 story high set of horns over I35. Did you see the picture in the newspaper? Noboby can say that Texans think small /w3tcompact/icons/smile.gif. Maybe stupid sometimes but not small.

Bird · Dec 28, 2000

Randy, I live about 25 miles from Hillsboro, so we shop there frequently, but I must have missed something; haven't heard of any such plans.

Bird

TWINKLE_TOES · Dec 28, 2000

I think those things on the front are Goretex spoilers/w3tcompact/icons/smile.gif

I was stationed at Bergstrom AFB during the Johnson years and they used to spray the grass on the side of the runway green if Lady Bird was on AF 1 when it came in. I also heard she was behind the fire trucks in Austin painted white. Bird are they still white?

Bird · Dec 28, 2000

Al, I don't know whether Austin still has white fire trucks or not. Several years ago, someone determined that red was not as highly visible as lighter colors, so Dallas, along with a lot of other places, started using chartreuse trucks. The color may have been more visible than red, but it seems people just didn't recognize them as being fire trucks, so I think everyone is going back to the old original red trucks./w3tcompact/icons/smile.gif

Bird

ERNIEB · Dec 28, 2000

Bird, The idea for chartreuse fire trucks came from Europe. When I was in Germany in 74-77, The German and other European countries I visited all had Chartreuse trucks and other emergency vehicles.
It's been so long since I've been to Austin, I don't know about the color of their trucks either. As far as that story goes, I don't doubt it. At least at one time Lady Bird owned a big piece of that town. When she whistled, Austin danced.

Ernie
"I deem it necessary for Texas to be ready to meat an army of eight or ten thousand strong in May next." Eli Mercer (in a letter to Henry Smith Dec,1835)