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Old 8th Nov 2020, 19:51
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Originally Posted by Sky Sports
Reading between the lines, he'll most likely be flying one of the support aircraft like the C-17.
It's in black and white for you.

Sources say the officer, who has not been named, will begin his attachment by flying or co-piloting some of the other aircraft in the fleet before being placed on the reserve list for Air Force One.
Now, I am a bit pedantic and it does irritate me a tiny bit to see 'Air Force One' used incorrectly.... but it's the media and we should be grateful they managed to list aircraft types that actually exist.
'Air Force One'' is of course, a callsign for when the POTUS is onboard any U.S. Air Force aircraft. Not a specific aircraft type, as it is often incorrectly applied exclusively to the VC-25.
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