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Air Traffic Monitoring => Aviation Audio Clips => Topic started by: jeffcyn on December 06, 2009, 10:37:36 PM
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I had an opportunity to witness the landing of Air Force One on Friday December 4. It was really awesome to see such a magnificent aircraft landing!! Especially since it was landing on only a 7600 foot runway!!! I did not have a chance to witness the takeoff but I'm sure she used all available runway! :-D
I was able to listen to the approach and tower live. I pulled the archives and put together the landing and departure. Before the takeoff there was some contact from a helicopter, not sure if it's State Police or Military, asking for control of the airport. I keep this in the file. They must have been clearing the departure end of the runway.
Below is a cropped photo from my small camera of the landing approach and a still capture from the video I shot.
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Here is a link to the video I took of the landing from short final: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jg6EK6APUMo (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jg6EK6APUMo). Sorry if the video is not so good as I was trying to watch!
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I got a picture with AF1 a couple years ago when President Bush came into town.
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I'm pretty sure the helicopter you referred to (Huntsman) is Secret Service or military assigned to AF1 as I have heard them at a variety of AF1 ops.
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Isnt it so that Air Force One transmits on a different frequency range than "normal" traffic, noone should really know when the president is out flying there.