[AT] OT - But made me giggle

charlie hill charliehill at embarqmail.com
Thu Aug 29 06:15:18 PDT 2013


He will take the entire hotel.

Charlie



-----Original Message----- 
From: Mattias Kessén
Sent: Thursday, August 29, 2013 8:46 AM
To: Antique tractor email discussion group
Subject: Re: [AT] OT - But made me giggle

That would be good for our economy since his suite at Grand Hotel costs
more than 10 000 USD/Night
Den 29 aug 2013 14:40 skrev "charlie hill" <charliehill at embarqmail.com>:

> "Since POTUS is coming here media is all excited about it."
>
> Mattias, please make him welcome.  Maybe he will stay.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Mattias Kessén
> Sent: Thursday, August 29, 2013 2:38 AM
> To: Antique tractor email discussion group
> Subject: [AT] OT - But made me giggle
>
> Sorry for the OT post but this made me giggle in the morning and is
> absolutely not political though it contains politicians.
>
> Since POTUS is coming here media is all excited about it. I happened to
> read this story http://www.aftonbladet.se/nyheter/article17366478.ab an
> interview with the former Swedish air force pilot Pär Alnerud. He once and
> only once has rejected another airplane from Swedish territory. It was in
> 1975 when he was on duty (at this time we had planes ready to start in 
> less
> than 5 minutes att various airbases) in Kalmar. The alarm went off, there
> was a plane to reject so he went with his route. Got to the plane with the
> text "United States of America" on the sides, he didn't think much about
> since the order was simple, reject. Positioned him self on the side and
> dipped the wing to show it to turn away. He had to repeat the procedure
> three times before it turned. Went back to later learn that the only plane
> he ever rejected was Air Force One with president Ford and foreign affairs
> minister Kissinger! The Swedish Air Force Chief was later called to the US
> embassy were they protested that the swedish air force plane flew to 
> close,
> and that was all.
> Ford and Kissinger had been in Helsinki and been delayed so someone 
> decided
> to make a shortcut over Sweden but as we say in Sweden "Shortcuts are 
> often
> late ways"
>
> :-)
>
> Mattias
>
> www.rodjagard.n.nu
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