You can step inside the first jet-powered Air Force One in the Museum of Flight in Seattle. It’s fully stocked, with meeting rooms and communication equipment and all. My favorite part is the fake temperature control:
> President Johnson was finicky about room temperature and when he was VP and developed a habit of haranguing the flight crew about lowering or raising the cabin temperature. After a while the crew got tired of his shenanigans, so they installed a “fake” temperature control in the Conference Room. This appeasement was successful, and Johnson was so pleased with manipulating the controls himself that he didn’t even notice when the temperature remained the same.
Ten total presidential aircraft and four you can walk through at the Dayton USAF museum [1]! You can walk through SAM 26000, the VC-137C used by 8 presidents including Kennedy. Amazing collection.
I remember two yeah I took a 360 cam through them and some day I might chop it up and run it through some photogrammetry to try to make a model of the insides.
Ronald Reagan Presidential Library has the last 707 model. Just as an exhibit, and the hoops they had to jump through to install the plane, are remarkable all in themselves.
For anyone who hasn't been there, I'd highly recommend visiting the Museum of Flight at Boeing Field in general, not just for the Air Force One, but for many other fascinating exhibits. Great place for a very "Seattle" experience if you're not from the Pacific Northwest, and historical info on Seattle as home of Boeing.
> President Johnson was finicky about room temperature and when he was VP and developed a habit of haranguing the flight crew about lowering or raising the cabin temperature. After a while the crew got tired of his shenanigans, so they installed a “fake” temperature control in the Conference Room. This appeasement was successful, and Johnson was so pleased with manipulating the controls himself that he didn’t even notice when the temperature remained the same.
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