<<We promise to visit the UK with Air Force One sometime soon...>>
I expect UK controllers will look forward to that. At Heathrow, our Queen and plenty of other VVIPs fly in and out with out trouble, but when your chap appears the whole world stands still. The CIA take over half the airport and do their own runway inspections and armed Secret Service people are in the tower.
But there were some good bits.... When I worked at Heathrow Tower some telephone lines were so bad we couldn't talk to an airfield 5 miles up the road but when Air Force 1 was due in a US-type telephone magically appeared in the tower. I picked it up one day and a lovely voice said "Good morning; it's the White House!" The SS guys used to dish out their calling cards so we could show them to our totally disbelieving kids - my young son said: "Real SS people don't do this, Dad, you got this from a comic".
And you know all the crap that pilots spin about being ultra-busy at take-off and landing when they can't talk or listen to ATC?? We got on real well with one SS guy and after AF1 departed he wished us well and disappeared. About half an hour later a departing 747 rolling down the runway said: "Howard asks me to send best regards to you guys".....
Happy days.... Did this all happen in the US for Gordon? (Who remembers that record by Jilted John??)