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Biden is going to Brandy Station, Virginia, today. He'll be taking either a Stearman biplane or Marine One.
Official Schedule
The President departs the White House en route Culpeper Regional Airport
South Lawn Open Press and Pooled for TV
11:15 AM
Official Schedule
The President arrives in Brandy Station, Virginia
Out-of-Town Pool
{snip}
2:55 PM
Official Schedule
The President departs Brandy Station, Virginia en route the White House
Out-of-Town Pool
3:25 PM
Official Schedule
The President arrives at the White House
South Lawn Open Press and Pooled for TV
People along the route, be on the lookout.
PJMcK
(22,886 posts)The Stearman Biplane seems like a strange craft for POTUS to fly in. According to Wikipedia, it "is a biplane formerly used as a military trainer aircraft, of which at least 10,626 were built in the United States during the 1930s and 1940s."
This is the Wikipedia link:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boeing-Stearman_Model_75
I'm sure I'm missing something. Is this some kind of PR event? (Aren't they all?)
mahatmakanejeeves
(60,935 posts)Whenever the old planes come to DC for a flyover, they are based at that airport. There used to be an aerial circus show that ran out of that airport. There's likely a Stearman there now.
nitpicker
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nitpicker
(7,153 posts)He might look at a Stearman while there, but I suspect Marine One is much more micro-maintained.
mahatmakanejeeves
(60,935 posts)It looks as if Warrenton and Culpeper have separate airports.
June 8, 2010
By AOPA ePublishing staff
It was supposed to be a day celebrating legends of aviation at the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum in Washington, D.C., complete with a promotional fly-in of eight Stearman into {Washington National Airport}. General aviation aircraft operations have been extremely limited at the airport since 9/11. After landing, the Stearman came to rest on its back one-quarter of the way down the 6,869-foot-long Runway 1.
Behind the Stearman roll-over
By now, millions of people around the world have seen the ghastly video images of the gorgeous Stearman biplane flipping over onto its back at Washingtons {National Airport}. Still, there are a couple of bright spots that no one who sees the infamous video should miss. AOPA Pilot Senior Editor was a passenger in the seventh airplane in the promotional flight. Read his blog >>
The pilot, Mike Treschel, of the Flying Circus Aerodrome in Warrenton, Va., and passenger Ashley Halsey, transportation reporter for the Washington Post, were not injured in the accident. Air traffic controllers immediately closed the runway and switched all arriving and departing airline traffic to the shorter 5,204-foot-long Runway 33, forcing the inbound airliners to make a shortfield approach. Two hours after the 10 a.m. incident, a crane had lifted the yellow biplane and turned it upright before it was moved from the runway.
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Associated Press
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Film producer Pietro Serapiglia says the aircraft was part of a group of vintage biplanes flying in Tuesday morning to promote the opening of 3-D film "Legends of Flight." Serapiglia says the plane landed, but then flipped over. (June 8)
mahatmakanejeeves
(60,935 posts)Well, I'm disappointed. No Stearman.
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