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From: jlg@lanl.ARPA
Newsgroups: net.aviation
Subject: Re: No favoritism in Washington Center
Message-ID: <34678@lanl.ARPA>
Date: Thu, 12-Dec-85 16:07:31 EST
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Posted: Thu Dec 12 16:07:31 1985
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Reply-To: jlg@a.UUCP (Jim Giles)
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Organization: Los Alamos National Laboratory
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In article <3074@sun.uucp> marcum@sun.uucp (Alan Marcum) writes:
>		- "Washington Center, Air Force One, requesting
>		  lower."
>		- "Air Force One, stand by."
>		     three minutes elapse
>		- "Washington Center, Air Force One, requesting
>		  lower."
>		- "Unable."

I thought Air Force One used a different call sign when the president was
aboard.  Some PBS program had a sequence on Air Force One a little while
back (maybe Smithsonian World) and I'm sure it said that Air Force One went
under a different name depending upon whether the president was aboard.
When the president is not aboard, it still does a lot of flying but gets no
special treatment from controllers.

J. Giles
Los Alamos