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Traditionally, the aircraft only calls Air Force One when the president is on board. President Donald Trump will not travel on the plane. The plane has been redesignated and renamed to honor Bush this week.
"Air Force One arrived in Houston for what will be technically called" Special Air Mission 41 "tomorrow and Wednesday, a beautiful day in Texas -" unlimited ceiling and visibility, "Mr. Chairman," tweeted Jim McGrath.
The phrase "ceiling and unlimited visibility" comes from the time of Bush in the Navy. Bush had a plaque with the acronym "CAVU" stuck to the wall of his home in Kennebunkport, Maine. In 2001, he wrote to his children a letter in which it was written: "CAVU was the kind of weather that the Navy pilots wanted when we took off from our aircraft carrier in the Pacific -" Ceiling and Visibility Unlimited. Bush's family and friends announced the news of his death Friday at the age of 94. They used the code word "CAVU."
The body of the former president will belong to the Bush family, especially to his sons, the 39, former President George W. Bush and Neil Bush, as well as many of their grandchildren, according to a source close to the plans.There will also be close friends on the flight, including l 39; former Secretary of State James Baker and Bush's closest staff members, including his chief of staff, Jean Becker.
There will be a departure ceremony at the Ellington Field Joint Reserve at Houston and the arrival ceremony at Andrews Common Base Maryland.
Bush will rest Thursday afternoon at the George H. W. Bush Presidential Library in College Station, Texas, where his wife Barbara Bush and daughter Robin, who died of childhood leukemia, are buried.
