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mahatmakanejeeves

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5. Regardless of who's in office, I still look up to watch it. There are no 747s

Fri Jul 3, 2020, 06:57 PM

Jul 2020

serving Washington National Airport. Dulles and BWI are too far away for a 747 to pass overhead low enough to be recognizable. When I see one, it is either 28000 or 29000. They go out on test flights a lot.

Once, on the Sunday following Thanksgiving, maybe in 2001 or thereabouts, just before sunset, I saw one go right over the house headed for Andrews. It was Bush coming back from Thanksgiving.

You can hear them on any scanner that picks up civilian aircraft. The crews communicate with towers just like all the other air crews.

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Air Force One sighting, for those of you who care. [View all] mahatmakanejeeves Jul 2020 OP

Those are the tail numbers for AF One leftieNanner Jul 2020 #1

Doesn't AF1 have a twin? MontanaMama Jul 2020 #2

I would think so. They do for marine 1 (triplets, actually) soothsayer Jul 2020 #4

Cool, I don't think I've ever seen it soothsayer Jul 2020 #3

Regardless of who's in office, I still look up to watch it. There are no 747s mahatmakanejeeves Jul 2020 #5

Oh, cool, we have a scanner soothsayer Jul 2020 #6

Both planes went out tonight unc70 Jul 2020 #7

Hey, thanks. I never got serious about listening to aviation frequencies, despite mahatmakanejeeves Jul 2020 #8

Trump is leaving Andrews at 9:50 Friday morning if you want to track the flight. NT mahatmakanejeeves Jul 2020 #9

North by Northwest is my all time favorite movie! at140 Jul 2020 #10

That thing shows weather balloons too, I think? Captain Zero Jul 2020 #11