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WHBM
A bit of a giveaway there that this was an original turbojet version that didn't even have the range to do Washington to Cologne without refuelling.
Air Force One is about to make another fuel stop in Honolulu right now on the way back from the ASEAN Summit in Manila.
Dorr's book cited above says that the CIA outfitted 970 with secret cameras in preparation for a planned 1960 Moscow summit that was scuttled by the U-2 shoot down on May 1.
There were persistent rumors that Pan Am planes operating in the Berlin corridors had similar extra equipment. I never found any of it on my walkarounds in TXL.
