Did you know the President's suite aboard Air Force One is in the nose?

[Drunken Irishman]

Kinda interesting. I'm sure there is no place that is technically safest aboard a plane, but dammit, that'd be hard to sleep in knowing that, just feet from your head, is nothing!

[Sherman A1]

1. Well,

actually since it is an airplane. Anywhere aboard you are pretty much in the same situation. Certainly it's a big airplane, but it's still an airplane.

[KansDem]

2. So that's where Bush was when he was "getting out of harm's way."

Bush's initial conduct on Sept. 11 came under scrutiny because he did not immediately return to Washington. When the first airliner crashed into the World Trade Center, he was in Sarasota, Fla., to speak on education reform.

Bush and his entourage flew to two highly secure Air Force bases--one in Louisiana, the other in Nebraska--before arriving in Washington that evening.

"I mean, I was trying to get out of harm's way," Bush said.

"We were concerned about threats on the president. We were worried about future attacks, and there's a lot of belief that Flight 93 was headed to the White House," Bush added, referring to the hijacked commercial airliner that crashed in western Pennsylvania.

http://articles.latimes.com/2002/may/22/nation/na-bush22

A real inspiration to us all...

[GodlessBiker]

4. Cool. I wonder if all those phones are turned off for takeoff and landing.

[DCKit]

5. Don't know about you, but I always sleep wearing a football helmet.

Gotta have something there.

[Firebrand Gary]

6. Progress is slow but incredibly powerful. Imagine what would Rosa Parks think?

And yea, the plane is pretty cool!

[gkhouston]

7. Nice diagram, but they've left out the classified stuff.

Like the location of the snakes...

[VWolf]

8. Unbelieveable. All that technology,

and they still have fax machines!

[Jeff In Milwaukee]

9. Suppose he gets one of those quarter-ounce bags of pretzels when he flies?

Any maybe a complimentary beverage?