Editing Air Force One (section)

====Loewy's livery design====
[[File:Livery_design_for_Air_Force_One.jpg|thumb|[[Raymond Loewy]]'s initial design proposal]]
The new [[Boeing C-137 Stratoliner|VC-137C]] was not yet modified for presidential service when [[John F. Kennedy]] took office in 1961. On the recommendation of his wife, [[Jacqueline Kennedy]], he contacted the French-born American industrial designer [[Raymond Loewy]] for help in designing new livery and interiors for the VC-137C.<ref name=preptjb/><ref name="SAM26000Arrival" /><ref>{{harvnb|terHorst|Albertazzie|1979|pp=200–202}}</ref>

Loewy, who had seen ''SAM 970'', complained to a friend in the [[White House]] that it "had a garish orange nose and looked too much like a military plane", Air Force One historian and former Smithsonian curator Von Hardesty told [[CNN]]. He offered Kennedy his design consultation services free of charge.<ref name="CNN Style"/><ref name="AF1 Aura">{{cite web |last1=Beschloss |first1=Michael |title=The Man Who Gave Air Force One Its Aura |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2015/08/09/upshot/the-man-who-gave-air-force-one-its-aura.html |website=The New York Times |date=15 August 2021}}</ref>

Kennedy chose a red-and-gold design from one of Loewy's initial concept sketches, and asked him to render the design all in blue. Loewy also drew inspiration from the first printed copy of the [[United States Declaration of Independence]], suggesting the widely spaced and upper case ''"United States of America"'' legend in [[Caslon]] typeface. He chose to expose the polished aluminum fuselage on the bottom side and used two blues, [[steel blue]] {{Color sample|#3C79B4}} associated with the early republic and the presidency, and a more contemporary water blue {{Color sample|#C9ECF5}} to represent an America both rooted in the past and flying inexorably into the future. The [[Seal of the President of the United States|presidential seal]] was added to both sides of the fuselage near the nose and a large American flag was painted on the tail. Loewy's work won immediate praise from the president and the press. The [[Aircraft livery#Cheatline|cheatline]] suggested a sleek and horizontal image that mirrored America's [[Jet Age]] optimism and prosperity of the era, and today signifies its legacy and tradition.<ref name="CNN Style" /><ref name="MoMAAF1">{{cite web |title=Livery design for Air Force One |url=https://www.moma.org/collection/works/196025 |website=moma.org |access-date=28 June 2021}}</ref><ref name="Color Scheme">{{cite web |last1=Naidu |first1=Keshav |title=Air Force One Color Scheme |url=https://www.schemecolor.com/air-force-one.php |website=schemecolor.com |access-date=29 June 2021}}</ref><ref>{{harvnb|Hardesty|2003|page=70}}</ref>

Loewy's VC-137C livery was adapted for the larger [[Boeing VC-25|VC-25A]] when it entered service in 1990, and the secondary variation (without the darker blue cheatline and cap over the cockpit) is still in use on USAF [[Boeing C-40 Clipper|C-40]], [[Gulfstream V#Variants|C-37]], [[Boeing C-32|C-32]], and [[Gulfstream IV#C-20F/G/H/J military variants|C-20]] aircraft in standard (non-presidential) VIP configurations. The presidential paint scheme can also be seen on [[Union Pacific 4141]], the locomotive used in [[George H. W. Bush]]'s funeral train.<ref>{{cite news|last=Willingham|first=AJ|title=George H.W. Bush will journey to his final resting place on a train whose engine is named for him|publisher=CNN|date=3 December 2018|url=https://www.cnn.com/2018/12/03/us/george-bush-train-union-pacific-funeral-trnd/index.html|access-date=3 December 2018}}</ref><ref name="AF1whmuseum"/>