Boeing VC-137C Air Force One - "Arrival Johnston Island" - 1969
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- Silent film from the Internet Archive Collection, Fed Flix. Special thanks to John and Paige Curran. Amazing footage of SAM 26000 at Johnston Atoll on July 23 & 24, 1969. President Nixon is enroute to the U.S.S. Hornet to greet the crew of Apollo 11 post splashdown. Pan Am Stewardesses included! Be sure to check my channel for the best in VINTAGE & RARE airliner videos!
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Cool video
Very good video, did not know the President Nixon went to Johnston Island in 1969. That was a marvelous aircraft.
This is most excellent. Right into my AVIATION playlist. ROCK ON!!!!!!
Thanks as always Fred, I really appreciate it.
Worked on JI 1991
@ I FLY TOO Oh, I really like this one too! Great close ups of the airplane, sucker for polished bare aluminum, and have always really enjoyed that livery. I was sooo hoping the take-off would have been included, but it's always a tease; you work around it all as best you can with the limited amount of material to work with. BTW, if you guys want to see the full length 22 minute version, go to Internet Archive and type in: "PRESIDENT NIXON'S VISIT, JOHNSTON ISLAND, July 23-24, 1969"
I flew into Johnston on an emergency C-141 medevac mission in 1990, the runway is almost as long as the whole island
Among the crowd getting off the plane is astronaut & former airline CEO Frank Borman!
Interesting that the ventral fin is no longer attached to the aft fuselage at this time. It was attached when the jet was delivered and it is on the aircraft as it sits in the USAF museum today.
Welcome to Johnston Atoll. Thank you, by the way, can to tell me where we can find a nice restaruant on the island? Yeah, you walk straight ahead.
President and VP flew on plane together??
that was so fast
So, that plane load was exposed to radiation like the rest of us who were there, but only for a fraction of the time we were.
no radiation, it was a storage and disposal site for chemical weapons
@@bob80q
You are wrong friend. i was there and have Lymphoma from the plutonium that was spread all over the atoll waters and Island. There are videos of the rocket with the plutonium a bomb on it burning up in 1962, before I was there in 63-64 and before Pres. Nixon was there too. The chemical weapons did not arrive til the late 80s and the agent orange in the early 70s or so. The launch pad number 1 had a fence around it with RADIATION signs on it, so dont say no radiation, please! Only thing I saw mentioning radaition when I was there. There are now thick reports done on the radiation in the 70s telling how bad it was and is.
@@bob80q man you should really do a Google search before commenting ignorance like that
where that island. is located?
It's approx. 800 miles southwest of Hawaii. I lived/worked there for almost 2 years in the early 2000's as Safety Manager for the decommissioning and demolition of the world's first chemical weapons incinerator. My company had built the prototype incinerator on the atoll 10 years earlier. Gorgeous little speck of a place. About 1/2 mile wide by 1 1/2 miles long, most of it taken up by airstrip.
I was a Safety Officer for the missile squadron that was there at the time. Got to see the President up close as he was given a tour of the island in an open Jeep by the Base Commander.
25th ADS Safety Officer, I worked for Captain Tower 24SS Safety Officer and CWO Orme who replaced Capt Tower, adjacent to Capt Tower was Capt Lewis the 24SS Construction Engineer. I saw 4 rotations of the 25ADS guys when they came TDY. Didn't know any personally. what years were you stationed there by the way.
Take a geiger counter and it will lead you there! LOL! 700 plus miles southwest of Hawaii.
he may have been economical with the truth, but would still prefer tricky dicky over obama any freaking day!
Yeah, better a liar than a black man , what a maroon.