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Aviation History
1956
1956 - 1619.PDF
777 In the throes of his election campaign, President Eisenhower found time to thank Lockheed for the comfort and reliabil- ity of his newest Super-G. Seen mount- ing the speaker's platform (escorted by Lockheed chairman Robert E. Gross) and talking to a crowd of 24,000 in front of the radar-sentry and a Neptune, the Presi- dent compared his aircraft to " a fly- ing White House." "Columbine III" has a teletype machine installed to enable those aboard to main- tain contact with Washington. Mr. Eisenhower, who addressed 24,000 peopleat Burbank (not all of them Lockheed employees), said that he had travelled 225,000 miles in his per-sonal Constellations—but "that, of course, is only a fraction of the distance they have gone in all.The present Columbine, like the other two, is trust- worthy and reliable; and, above all for me, it iscomfortable. It is a place where I can work. It is roomy and commodious. It is, in fact, a flyingWhite House. So you can see that I feel a real debt of gratitude to all you people."
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