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Article Excerpt
This was definitely a different kind of trip. From the very beginning, one could tell this wasn't going to be the typical Washington-New York Shuttle with 125 tired sweaty passengers stuffed into a well-worn Eastern DC-9. Yes, we were indeed traveling from Washington D.C. up to New York's LaGuardia Airport, but we were about to board a U.S. Air Force McDonnell Douglas VC-9C at Andrews Air Force Base, Maryland, and the airplane just happened to have been used previously that week by Ronald Reagan's Vice President, George Herbert Walker Bush. Let's put it this way--when I saw eight cabin crewmembers preparing to board the airplane with only sixteen passengers that sunny Sunday morning, I began to get the message that our baggage probably wouldn't be getting lost.
It was spring 1986, and I'd been in Washington attending an official Air Force function after which I was afforded the rare opportunity to travel to New York aboard "Air Force Two", the Vice President's airplane. Technically, it only used that hallowed callsign when the Vice President himself was aboard, but calling the airplane by that name was what I believe we'd call, uh--close enough...
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