Originally Posted by
SASless
You all do understand there are far more than just the one aircraft that participate in the movement of the President...as they use the Pea under a Walnut Shell game in an effort to confuse the public.
As inferred in Post 6 above. For the sake of clarity and good order, this practice isn't just for the current resident of the WH. It's been in place at least 15 years, when I first observed it. I saw basically the same thing with Reagan's limo(s) for the Gorbachev summit in Moscow back in '88, so it probably goes back for quite some time for ground ops as well as air travel.