‘A flying White House’: Trump’s Air Force One fuels fascination in China

Hundreds of Beijing residents join professional photographers at vantage points near airport to capture arrival of the presidential plane Hundreds of professional photographers and residents lined up across various points near Beijing Capital International Airport to capture one of the most recognisable symbols of the American presidency – Air Force One. Within minutes of its appearance, Chinese social media was flooded with videos and photos of the aircraft’s landing, filmed from multiple angles on the ground. “This is too close,” remarked a social media user with more than 300,000 followers. Some aviation enthusiasts posted detailed analyses of the presidential aircraft, calling it “a flying White House”, while others tracked its journey from Washington, sharing the flight path and videos of its landing and take-off during a refuelling stop in Alaska. A few plane spotters also speculated about the arrival of the US E-4B Nightwatch, also known as the “doomsday plane”, at a military base in Okinawa, Japan. The aircraft frequently shadows the US president on international trips for security reasons.

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