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One man's quest to restore the first-ever Air Force One
President Dwight D. Eisenhower’s plane is starting to look like itself again.
Its elegantly tapered fuselage was shaped like a bottlenose dolphin and had thousands of mirror-polished aluminum panels in addition to the hand-painted word “Columbine” arched above a blossoming blue and white flower. transport for Vice President Richard Nixon and visiting dignitaries such as Queen Elizabeth, and Eisenhower converted a newer, larger Lockheed Super Constellation into his next Air Force One in November 1954. “This is complicated, costly, and time-consuming work that requires tremendous expertise and ingenuity,” says First Air Force One executive director Phil Douglas, an aerospace engineer who inherited the project after Stoltzfus passed away unexpectedly in December 2020.
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