Air Force One has been in the news a lot lately A lot more than usual, because of the unusual gift of an airplane from Qatar to president Trump.
The history of an official presidential aircraft goes back 80 years. There have, of course, been several aircraft known as Air Force 1, and not all of them were jets.
Longtime White House correspondent Kenneth Walsh was one of the rare individuals who got to fly on Air Force One.
And his fascination with the aircraft, as well as the men who have called it their office in the sky, grew into a 2003 book called simply Air Force One.
Get ready to hear the stories of what the plane is, what it isn’t, what people think it is, and what it definitely is not.
So here now, from 2003 Kenneth Walsh.