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Mildenhall is a major base for the US air force Confidential US Air Force (USAF) e-mails, some including flight plans for a presidential visit, have been mistakenly sent to a tourism website. The e-mails were meant to go to the US airbase at RAF Mildenhall, Suffolk, via its website. But instead they went to a town tourism website which had a similar address. The USAF said there had been no "verified security breach" and it had advised airmen and other staff to use the correct e-mail address. Gary Sinnott, of Mildenhall, set up the website "mildenhall.com" in the late...

Maureen Dowd flew on Air Force One with President Bush and survived. The notorious Bush-bashing New York Times columnist fell ill during a recent trip to Israel and was cared for by White House doctor Richard J. Tubb, the Washington Post reports.A press aide arranged for Dowd, who sufferred from what sounds like dysentery, to see Tubb at the "over-the-top $3 billion luxury hotel" where Bush stayed in Bahrain. Dowd then skipped the press charter to the United Arab Emirates and hitched a ride on Air Force One, "where she visited the doctor once again in his [onboard] office near...

ST. LOUIS, April 03, 2007 -- A Boeing-built [NYSE: BA] 707 simulator today was unveiled at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library in Simi Valley, Calif., where it will be on permanent display in the Air Force One Pavilion. A group of volunteers in Wichita, Kan., spent approximately three years restoring the simulator to resemble Air Force One. Boeing funded the simulator's final journey from Kansas to California. "We're pleased we could play a part in helping the simulator complete its journey to the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library," said Ray Bachman, Boeing Wichita Special Air Mission Business Development manager. "The volunteers...

HO CHI MINH CITY: The aircraft carrying United States President George W Bush on a tour of Asia suffered a tyre problem during a stopover in the southern Vietnamese city of Ho Chi Minh City, officials said on Monday. They said the problem that emerged after he landed Sunday in the city had been fixed and would not affect plans to travel later on Monday to Indonesia. "We are back to normal," White House spokesman Tony Fratto said. "There was a problem with a tyre, they were able to find a replacement, and they repaired it." Bush always flies...

Arrival of George Bush in Singapore SINGAPORE - American president George W. Bush arrived Thursday to Singapore, first stage of a voyage one week to Asia intended to promote the democratic reforms, to reinforce the safety of the United States, like his commercial bonds with the countries of the area. The plane One Air Force landed with 07H15 local (Wednesday 23H15 GMT) in Singapore where George W. Bush will remain Thursday, before going Friday to Vietnam where it will take part in the annual top of the forum of economic Co-operation the Asia-Pacific (Apec). It will complete its round...

"The POTUS is on board!" yelled a man of nearly 60 wearing a Navy baseball cap, dark pants and no tie, who had just climbed the drop-down backstairs of Air Force One in the dark and slipped into the rearmost cabin, crammed full with reporters and photographers. It was, in fact, not just the customary announcement made when the president of the United States (POTUS) boards his plane. This was, in fact, the POTUS himself, minutes before Monday night's secret trip to Baghdad, one so elaborately planned that it included the president lying to his closest aides and the White...

WASHINGTON (AP) - Two small planes separately violated restricted airspace set up for President Bush's visit to Pennsylvania on Wednesday and were forced to land by military F-16 jets. The small planes "left the temporary flight restricted area relatively quickly," said Michael Kucharek, spokesman for the North American Aerospace Defense Command in Peterson, Colo. One plane was forced to land at a Cross Keys, N.J., airport, but the destination of the other wasn't clear, Kucharek said. The pilot who landed in New Jersey will be questioned by federal authorities, Monroe Township police said. All aircraft except for regular flights were...

US President George W Bush's Air Force One aircraft damaged the runway when it landed at Canberra airport in 2003, leaving Australian taxpayers to pick up the bill, a parliamentary committee has been told. The high-tech Boeing 747 jumbo jet, dubbed the flying White House, was much heavier than most aircraft that land on the runway and caused damage to the pavement. Other military and VIP planes had also damaged the runway but the visit by Air Force One worried the airport owners to the point where they raised concerns about the weight of the jet with the Federal Government....

How much do you think Osama bin Laden would pay to know exactly when and where the President was traveling, and who was with him? Turns out, he wouldn't have had to pay a dime. All he had to do was go through the trash early Tuesday morning. It appears to be a White House staff schedule for the President's trip to Florida Tuesday. And a sanitation worker was alarmed to find in the trash long hours before Mr. Bush left for his trip. It's the kind of thing you would expect would be shredded or burned, not thrown in...

Jim VandeHei of the Washington Post filed an official complaint with Press Secretary Scott McClellan and DEMANDED that the TV sets in the press area of Air Force One be changed from FOX News to CNN. Here's a flash for Jim VandeHei, YOUR newspaper is partnered with MSNBC, not CNN. If MSNBC isn't good enough for the Washington Post's own reporters, why should anyone else watch it? No wonder MSNBC is in a laughable third place. Way to go Scoop...there's a reason Drudge is a multi-millionaire and you're not.

White House scribe asks for the remote Press corps asks to watch CNN on Air Force One It wasn't the price of gasoline, Darfur or the rebuilding effort in New Orleans that preoccupied the White House press corps Thursday aboard a flight on Air Force One. It was what channel they could watch on the White House televisions, Fox or CNN. During a briefing led by White House spokesman Scott McClellan as President Bush was traveling to New Orleans, Louisiana, the Washington Post's Jim VandeHei asked why the White House televisions always seemed to be tuned to Fox News and...

The controversy du jour aboard Air Force One today was one near and dear to the hearts of many otherwise happy couples: Command and control of the TV tuner. “It’s come to my attention that there’s been requests – this is a serious question – to turn these TVs on to a station other than Fox, and that those have been denied,” Washington Post reporter Jim VandeHei told Press Secretary Scott McClellan. “My question would be, is there a White House policy that all government TVs have to be tuned to Fox?” “Never heard of any such thing,” said McClellan,...

OK. I rarely do vanities. But somebody gave me the link to this website (stillfree.com) and a video on it that I can't believe. It's a video of some guy named Mark Ecko--apparently some kind of New York graffiti artist/clothing designer/game geek/entrepeneur/slacker--"tagging" one of the Presidential aircraft at Andrews AFB with graffiti. That's right. He actually gets close enough to the plane--a converted 747 that may or may not be one of the two used as Presidental transports, I really can't tell--to spraypaint "STILLFREE" on the #2 engine nacelle. So I guess Abdul and Mahmoud know what to do now....

Whenever the president travels, security is a prime consideration. Motorcade routes are kept secret, and premature release of information about a presidential trip aboard one of the twin Air Force One planes can result in the Secret Service canceling a visit. Thus, the Air Force reacted with alarm last week after The Chronicle told the Secret Service that a government document containing specific information about the anti-missile defenses on Air Force One and detailed interior maps of the two planes -- including the location of Secret Service agents within the planes -- was posted on the Web site of an...

Article published Feb 18, 2006 Harris catches ride on Air Force One By Jeremy Wallace If Jeb Bush's public support for Katherine Harris last month wasn't enough to prove that the Longboat Key Republican is gaining acceptance among the GOP elite in her bid for a U.S. Senate seat, a ride on Air Force One ought to do the trick. Harris, who is running against Democratic Sen. Bill Nelson, was one of four House Republicans to fly to Tampa with President George W. Bush, who talked to Southwest Floridians about protecting America from terrorism. While members of Congress are routinely...

Texas oil tycoon T. Boone Pickens donated $10 million to the Ronald Reagan library, covering the remaining costs of the new Air Force One Pavilion at the hilltop museum. The gift from Pickens, who in 1980 was Texas state finance chairman for Reagan's presidential campaign, will allow the foundation to pay off its $32 million construction loan. "This gift means so much to me," former first lady Nancy Reagan said in a statement Thursday, the eve of the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library's opening ceremony for the pavilion. "Ronnie and I have been friends with Boone for many years. That his...

The President travelled to California yesterday attending a fund raiser in the evening and today the Opening Ceremony for Air Force One Pavilion a the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library Yesterday and today the Governor of Florida Jeb Bush contends with yet another hurricane Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and British Foreign Secretary Jack Straw answer questions after speaking to students at the University of Alabama in Tuscaloosa Secretary of Defence Donald Rumsfeld continues his tour of the far east at present he is in South Korea Today is Trafalgar Day in Britain For further information on this see Battle of...

Roads in the area of the San Diego (405) Freeway and Sunset Boulevard To Be Closed From 4 p.m. to 8 p.m. LOS ANGELES - President Bush travels to the Southland to raise money for the GOP, and Gov. Arnold Schwarzenneger, a fellow Republican, downplayed reports of his irritation over the visit. With the president's staff apparently having disregarded a request by the governor to delay the California visit, Bush is scheduled to arrive at Los Angeles International Airport this afternoon at the start of a two-day visit. Following his arrival, Bush will present the President's Volunteer Service Award to...

WASHINGTON - President Bush took Air Force One across the country Thursday to see a retired version of the presidential plane. Bush planned to make remarks Friday at a ribbon-cutting ceremony for the Air Force One Pavilion at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library in Simi Valley, Calif. Thursday night, he was attending a Republican National Committee fundraiser in Los Angeles. Spokesman Scott McClellan said Bush would talk about Supreme Court nominee Harriet Miers and second-term agenda items including energy, immigration and recovery from Hurricane Katrina. The opening of the pavilion is the realization of Reagan's plan that everyday Americans should...

WASHINGTON - Getting President Bush from here to there consumes an enormous amount of fuel, whether he's aboard Air Force One, riding in a helicopter or on the ground in a heavily armored limousine. The bill gets steeper every day as the White House is rocked by the same energy prices as regular drivers. Taxpayers still foot the bill. Almost every vehicle Bush uses is custom-made to add security and communications capabilities, and the heavier weight of these guzzlers further drives up gas and jet fuel costs. The White House declines to discuss travel costs related to the presidential entourage,...

Just saw Air Force one fly over here in Boise!

In Show of Support, Bush to Give DeLay AF1 Flight WASHINGTON (Reuters) - In a show of support, President Bush will give embattled House of Representatives Republican leader Tom DeLay an Air Force One ride to Washington from Texas on Tuesday, a White House spokesman said. DeLay is under fire over allegations that he violated ethics rules by allowing lobbyists to pay for some of his overseas travel, including a May 2000 trip to Britain that included golf at the St. Andrews golf course in Scotland. The Texas Republican has accused Democrats and the media of conducting a witch hunt,...

PRESIDENTIAL NEWS OF THE DAY: After returning to the White House late yesterday, the President spent a quiet day at the White House. He and the First Lady will attend the annual Gridiron Dinner tonight in Washington. President Bush said he intended to nominate Michael Griffin of Johns Hopkins University to head the National Aeronautics and Space Administration. Griffin currently heads the Space department at Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory. THE WEEK AHEAD: Source -- White House Press Secretary Scott McClellan, at yesterday's press gaggle. Monday: The President will participate in the presentation of the National Medals of Science and Technology...

Air Force One preparing for departure from Ottawa, with snow and icy conditions. Video feed from CBC shows AF1 being deiced under deteriorating weather conditions.

Reporters eating breakfast at the back of Air Force One on Thursday were served a rare treat: a visit from President Bush. It was the kind of thing candidate George W. Bush did all the time in 2000. The then-Texas governor regularly strolled back to banter with the journalists traveling with him. There were running jokes, even nicknames for the regulars. But as president, Bush abruptly called a halt to such fraternizing. Thursday was only the third time in his presidency that Bush trundled to the rear cabin to talk to the 15 journalists sequestered there. The last time was...

LAS VEGAS (Reuters) - President Bush paid a rare visit to the press cabin aboard Air Force One on Thursday to express optimism about his prospects and dismiss polls showing Democrat John Kerry won their third debate. "The debate phase of the campaign is over and now it's a sprint to the finish," Bush said. "I'm excited about it. My spirits are high. I'm enthusiastic about my chances." Bush, joined by Arizona Sen. John McCain, spoke on what was only his third visit to the Air Force One press cabin since he took office in January 2001, as the Bush...

SIMI VALLEY, Calif. (AP) - Former first lady Nancy Reagan smiled Monday as the Boeing 707 that served as Air Force One during her husband's two terms was moved to its final roost at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library. The 153-foot-long fuselage slowly slipped into the giant birdcage-like steel frame of the new $25 million presidential transportation pavilion. The fuselage and its clipped wings have been stored on the dusty hilltop since the dismantled aircraft arrived 15 months ago. Prior to the ceremony, Mrs. Reagan stopped at the library grave site of her husband, who died June 5 of complications...

The Secret Service anticipated keeping President Bush at Offutt Air Force Base for several days after the Sept. 11, 2001, attack if necessary, the 9/11 Commission's final report says. Instead, the president left Offutt after less than two hours in Nebraska. The report tells of hasty conferences among Bush, Vice President Dick Cheney, the Secret Service and other advisers about what Bush should do and where he should go as they tried to assess the damage and danger after the terrorist attacks. "Offutt Air Force Base in Nebraska was chosen because of its elaborate command and control facilities, and because...

I've been watching the coverage of President Reagan's funeral, and it appears to me that his body and funeral party are being flown on Air Force One. Can anyone confirm this, or comment on the protocol for Air Force One in this situation? Personally, I think it is a very nice and fitting tribute to President Reagan, and an extremely classy gesture by President Bush to allow it.

Presemputive Democratic presidential nominee belittled President Bush while the candidate's plane sat on the tarmac in Topeka, Kansas on Monday. After making his speech commemorating the Brown vs. Board of Education ruling, Kerry and his entourage were boarding his charter, due to fly west to Oregon.An advance staffer for the candidate informed Kerry that they had to hurry and take off so the airport could be secured for President Bush's arrival.Kerry refused to move quickly, instead loitering and refusing to take his seat on the plane.At one point, Kerry asked reporters, 'You mean, you're not staying for what's his name?''He...

TARMAC LOITERER Presumptive Democratic presidential candidate Sen. John Kerry belittled President Bush while the candidate's plane sat on the tarmac in Topeka, Kansas, on Monday. After making his speech commemorating the Brown v. Board of Education ruling, Kerry and his entourage were boarding the Kerry charter, then due to fly west to Oregon. An advance staffer for the candidate informed Kerry that they had to hurry and take off so that the airspace around the airport could be secured for President Bush's arrival. Kerry refused to move quickly, instead loitering and refusing to take his seat on the plane. At...

<p>While about 6,000 people attended President George W. Bush's speech in Kalamazoo on Monday, four Battle Creek residents took turns warming his chair in the flying Oval Office on the other side of the state.</p> <p>Sally Everett, her 11-year-old daughter, Ashley, 12-year-old Zach Davis and 12-year-old Melody Warner took a 11/2-hour private tour of Air Force One while it was at Selfridge Air National Guard Base, north of Detroit.</p>

The Washington Post: "When President Bush headed west Wednesday to raise more than $2 million for his re-election, his campaign enjoyed one of the greatest bargains in American politics: all-day use of Air Force One for the price of a few first-class air fares. Although the trip had an explicitly political purpose, taxpayers will pick up most of the expenses, as they did for President Clinton and his predecessors." They mention Clinton now, but did they mention this perk in such ominous tones during his 1996 reelection campaign? Did they talk about how he was "getting a deal" on Air...

CRAWFORD, Texas - (KRT) - The White House will comply with federal grand jury subpoenas seeking phone records from Air Force One to determine whether presidential aides used the aircraft's phones to leak the name of a CIA employee to reporters, a White House spokesman said Friday. The grand jury focus on phone calls from the presidential aircraft is one of several angles that investigators are pursuing in their effort to find a leaker. Former Ambassador Joseph Wilson contends that Bush administration officials revealed his wife's identity to punish him for speaking against the war in Iraq. Investigators have subpoenaed...

In this season of the Democratic primaries, everything is perceived in dichotomies of red and blue. We're reminded that the electorate is evenly divided, that ideology is rampant and that the voter sees the issues in negatives and positives. Polls suggest that George W. Bush will get a large majority of the white male vote and John Kerry will get a majority of the female vote. Conservatives are supposed to appeal to the NASCAR dad, the hard-drinking, hard-living workingman in the stands at the Daytona 500. Democrats will get the vote of the softer, socially conscious liberal ladies. "Democrats trolling...

Air Force One rises above the grandstands along the super stretch at Daytona International Speedway while taking off during the NASCAR Daytona 500 Sunday, Feb.15, 2004, in Daytona Beach, Fla. President Bush arrived before the race, talked with drivers and gave the command for drivers to start their engines before watching the race.

MEDFORD, N.J. (AP) - Military jets Saturday diverted a small plane flying in temporarily restricted air space shortly before President Bush flew out of Philadelphia on Air Force One, a Secret Service spokeswoman said. Two F-16 fighter jets ordered the plane to land at Medford's Flying W Airport, and the president was never in any danger, Secret Service spokeswoman Ann Roman said. The fighter jets had to use flares to get the pilot's attention, said Lt. Col. Kacey Blaney of the Northeast Air Defense Sector. Usually pilots respond to radio contact or other signals, she said. The plane and pilot...

Nicked ... emotionless Lakhani arrives at court THE British arms dealer seized over a US terror plot hero-worshipped Osama Bin Laden.Hemant Lakhani, 68, tried to supply missiles for a blitz on the scale of the September 11 attacks.He spoke of a bid to shoot down a plane on the anniversary of 9/11.Lakhani hated the US and was hell-bent on killing Americans, prosecutors said last night.The arms dealer believed terror leader Osama Bin Laden “did something right and set the Americans straight” when he orchestrated the September 11 attacks.And he was ready to help extremists unleash a new wave of terror....

     Obsessive White House press corps interest in the irrelevant, part one of two. At Thursday’s White House press briefing, reporters for major outlets treated a slight change in the particulars of which pilot asked who whether a plane the pilot saw was Air Force One, as it was on its way to Baghdad for a surprise Thanksgiving visit to the troops by President Bush, as some kind of scandal which undermines the integrity of the Bush White House.      Press Secretary Scott McClellan explained how an investigation by the British determined that it was not a British Airways pilot...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - In another White House correction, the Bush administration on Wednesday changed its story of a British Airways pilot's spotting of Air Force One during the president's stealth trip to Iraq (news - web sites) last week. The original story -- which held that the airline's pilot had talked to Air Force One and that he kept the secret of President Bush (news - web sites)'s Thanksgiving Day flight to Baghdad -- had been told by White House Communications Director Dan Bartlett to reporters as he sought to portray the drama of Bush's trip. But after British Airways...

WASHINGTON – In a footnote to President Bush's surprise trip to Baghdad, the White House identified the location and time when Air Force One was spotted en route to Iraq last week by a British Airways pilot. The sighting occurred Thursday morning, just after daybreak, off the western coast of England, said White House communications director Dan Bartlett. If it had led to public disclosure of Bush's trip, the mission would have been scrapped, Bartlett said. He said the pilot of the British Airways plane radioed the tower in London and reported the apparent sighting of Air Force One. The...

President Bush secretly landed an hour ago and is currently eating Thanksgiving dinner at my undisclosed location. Anticipate a press release after he takes off. ChiefKujo

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - British Airways said on Monday that none of its pilots made contact with President Bush's plane during its secret flight to Baghdad, contradicting White House reports of a mid-air exchange that nearly prompted Bush to call off his trip. Honor Verrier, a spokeswoman for British Airways in North America, said two BA aircraft were in the area at the time and neither radioed the president's plane to ask if it was Air Force One. "We have spoken to the British Airways captains who were in the area at the time and neither made comments to Air Force...

CRAWFORD, Texas (Reuters) - One of the most suspenseful moments during President George W. Bush's secret flight to Baghdad, according to the White House, came when a British Airways pilot spotted Air Force One soaring over the Atlantic. The mid-air encounter, which aides say nearly prompted the president to call off the trip, became an instant news sensation, memorialised by tourist pins which went on sale at a store in Crawford within hours of Bush's return to his Texas ranch. But two days after the sighting, the identity of the pilot remains a mystery, even to British Airways. An airline...

The funniest thing on the trip, according to Jim Angle, was when they were passed by a British Air comercial flight, the Brit inquired "Is that Air force One?" After a brief silence, Jim said the AF1 crew replied, "no, this is a Gulf 9"... The Brits's reply was "...ooooooh!"

<p>The president of the United States, wearing a beat-up work coat, jeans, cowboy boots and a baseball cap pulled down over his face, left his ranch Wednesday night and climbed into an unmarked car with tinted windows. p> He then secretly commuted to a Texas airport, impeded for the first time in three years by traffic lights and stop signs.</p>

New York-bound Czech flight forced to land in Iceland Posted: November 23, 2003 1:00 a.m. Eastern Editor's note: Joseph Farah's G2 Bulletin is an online, subscription intelligence news service from the creator of WorldNetDaily.com – a journalist who has been developing sources around the world for the last 25 years. © 2003 WorldNetDaily.com When a New York-bound Czech Airlines flight was diverted to land in Iceland after a bomb threat was e-mailed to the U.S. Embassy in Prague, no bomb was found – but, according to Joseph Farah's G2 Bulletin, two tons of machine-guns were discovered in the baggage hold....

From the AP - "Ventura County firefighters protect the fusilage of Air Force One (used during Ronal Regan's (sic) term as President) as smoke passes overhead at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library and Museum, right, Sunday, Oct. 26, 2003, in Simi Valley, Calif. The fire has destroyed several homes and burned more than 45,000 acres." At last word, firefighters are still protecting this symbol of President Reagan's term of office from destruction by fire. God bless these men and women regardless of their political persuasion. Note - AP cannot seem to speel the name of the greatest President the...

MANCHESTER — Minutes before President Bush’s motorcade brought him to Air Force One yesterday, an apparently distraught woman blasted her car through a police checkpoint and made it onto a runway before pursuing authorities rammed her vehicle to a stop. “She was going about 75 miles an hour. She just had the pedal to the metal and had no mercy,” said Barbara Timpson, 29, of Manchester, who watched in horror as the woman careened past about a half-dozen cruisers and airport vehicles stationed at the Manchester Airport entrance at Harvey and Perimeter roads. Officers forced to jump out of the...