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Trump writes that "Aircraft One" may do a "low & loud sprint" over his military parade
The President's ride is called Air Force One. What, then, is "Aircraft One?"
Trump:
People are coming from far and wide to join us today and tonight for what is turning out to be one of the biggest celebrations in the history of our Country, SALUTE TO AMERICA, an all day event at the Lincoln Memorial, culminating with large scale flyovers of the most modern.....
...and advanced aircraft anywhere in the World. Perhaps even Aircraft One will do a low & loud sprint over the crowd. That will start at 6:00P.M., but be there early. Then, at 9:00 P.M., a great (to put it mildly) fireworks display. I will speak on behalf of our great Country!
Google suggests it's meaningless and offers no exact results for the term from 2010 to 2018.
Fast come the quips:
I can help. I'm Adjunct Professor at Trump Univ Dept of Aeronautics & Planey Things. Aircraft One was the Wright Brothers' (Wilbur & Steven Wright) first airplane. It was a biplane, steam powered and invisible. It was lost in an unfortunate accident while investigating oranges
— Tomi T Ahonen (@tomiahonen) July 4, 2019
Elements of Resistance Twitter claim that it's an unofficial term for the Russian President's jet, but I was was unable to find evidence of that in English news reports, at wikipedia or in machine-translated items from Russian news and the Kremlin.
Nor could I find the Russian documentary by that name about Putin's plane, as referred by Andrew Feinberg, though it might be pointed out there are dozens of channels that might be described as Russian State TV and I could only inexpertly search for relevant terms in Russian-language media. Read the rest
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