Driver hauling fuselage fools passers-by

MARBLE HILL, Mo. -- Early last week, dozens of residents and passers-by thought they saw a former Air Force One on the back of a flatbed truck. The truck driver who was hauling the 30,000-pound fuselage from Arizona to Scott Air Force Base in Illinois told those who asked that the DC-9 had been used by Presidents Johnson and Nixon and that it was going to Scott Air Force Base in Illinois. He was half-right. A public relations officer at Scott Air Force Base said the fuselage will be used as a test facility but that the truck driver had apparently fooled many people about the craft's past. Apparently the fuselage was painted to look like Air Force One, but had never been used as such.