What about those business travelers who view airplanes as a place to rest rather than as a flying office?
A plane had landed, which they dubbed Air Force One, and they began talking in awe about how the aircraft is a fully equipped flying office.
Despite the cancellation of Connexion by Boeing –which would have installed onboard Internet and cellphone reception (and was FCC-approved)–the flying office will come in 2007.
Early advertisements for the 747, which was introduced in 1969, depicted business travelers flying in offices, families in staterooms and singles swirling martinis in bars.
Air Force One is the code name applied to any plane the President is travelling on, but the aircraft Mr Cameron will fly in is one of two which are mainly used as the President's "flying Oval Office".
POW-MIA flags fly from post offices and other buildings.
Pakistan is in the grip of Islamist-driven chaos with the white pennants of the Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP), the country's home-grown medievalists, flying from government offices across North and South Waziristan.
Since they were introduced in 1987, the blimps that represent Met Life have been all over the country, providing aerial coverage of golf tournaments and other sports events as well as flying over the offices and plants of companies that use Met Life to provide employee benefits.
Baker is clearly trying to unravel the enigma of how a figure like William O'Dwyer could fly into office on the wings of hope only to find himself sunk in scandal.
"Bullets were flying through my office, over our heads, and kept going for minutes," Mercer said.
