The Cost of Presidential Travel
Bush's Visit Takes Wind Out of Antique Airplane Show
By Susan Kinzie Washington Post Staff Writer Monday, October 8, 2007; B05
Nice day for a flight yesterday.
Unless you were headed to the annual Hagerstown Fly-In in an antique plane without a radio and your flight plan took you directly over restricted airspace in Maryland where President Bush was attending a memorial service.
According to the Federal Aviation Administration, from about 9 a.m. to noon yesterday, a dozen planes crossed into the no-fly zone, a temporary restriction of 30 aeronautical miles on the airspace that included Camp David and Emmitsburg, the site of the National Fallen Firefighters Memorial.
So the North American Aerospace Defense Command began dispatching fighter jets.
Four planes were escorted out of the area by F-16s, said Master Sgt. Anthony Hill of NORAD. They landed at nearby airports, where Secret Service agents followed up with the pilots, said Kim Bruce, a Secret Service spokeswoman.
Laura Brown, a sp…