SAM 970 - The first jet "Air Force One" detailed !!

[Superior Shine]

SAM (Special Air Mission) 970, "QUEENIE," is the first JET powered Air Force one. It is currently on display out doors at the Museum of Flight in Seattle, Washington. She had been retired in 1996.

The museum understands regular maintenance of the paint and bright work will perserve the craft so a call to MOL member Renny Doyle was made.

This would be the second or third time Renny had worked on the plane.

Renny Doyle, of Attenion to Details, hand picked a crew of about 20 independent detailers from across the United States to perform the job.

The paint and aluminum was oxidized and this baby was huge so we had our work cut out for us.

[chris-sd]

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crazy

cool project?

what does someone say about a detail like that

i guess you get to a point in a proffesion where you have made it

well i think yall made it

[Superior Shine]

Re: SAM 970 - The first jet "Air Force One" detailed !!

On our first day we had rain! Heavy at times but light most of the day.

What can we do in the rain........wax under the wings and belly of course!

We waxed Queenie with an aircraft safe certified product.

[Superior Shine]

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We then wrapped the painted areas with plastic sheeting. We will do some heavy metal polishing and the plastic will protect the paint from the metal polishing splatter.

Then we got started on the metal (aluminum) polishing. We did a five step on the aluminum. Three steps included rotary polish with the last two being cyclo polishing.

[chris-sd]

Re: SAM 970 - The first jet "Air Force One" detailed !!

thats alot of pc's

[Superior Shine]

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We are at about day three now. We are still fighting the rain but at least it isn't hot out!!

While the last few metal polishing steps are being done (and when the rain lets us) we peeled off the plastic and start polishing paint.

Here is what we had to work on-
















Here you can see the differance between the polished and unpolished sides.

[Superior Shine]

Re: SAM 970 - The first jet "Air Force One" detailed !!

The last two days of the project the sun finally came out. We had an awesome group to work with an everybody kicked it up into top gear and got to SHINING!!

[Superior Shine]

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The last day was beautiful. What a great day to end the project on. We polished up everything up just right and made sure we didn't leave anything less than satisfactory.

You can really start to appreciate the shine Queenie now wears.

[Superior Shine]

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Then it was time to enjoy the shine and take pics .....

[Superior Shine]

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Heart felt gratitude goes out to Seattle's Museum of Flight, Renny Doyle and the first class crew of detailers I had the pleasure to work with.

[guitarman502]

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Wow, Top Notch Joe and everyone else who worked on this!

[Nappers]

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Joe, that is truly amazing.

You can sure tell what you polished and what you didn't yet.

Awesome!

Thanks for sharing with us all.

Amazing.

[InfiniteDetail]

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Whoa, what an awesome project and write up!

Let's see, there's the fleet of school buses, and now a jumbo jet. What's next, an aircraft carrier??

Great work

[Carfire]

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That is really cool. What an honor. Nice pictures and great work.

[TimG]

Re: SAM 970 - The first jet "Air Force One" detailed !!

huge aircraft indeed. Great to see Joe, Renny and other detailers working together.

Shine on the aluminum under the wing is insane!

Thanks for the share.


Tim