History Awesome / AirForceOne

*** In any Podcast/RiffTrax that is covering a scene with a plane, expect the riffers to yell this.

* When the pilots of Air Force One are threatened at gunpoint to get the plane back in the air, they refuse. The Pilot is shot because he refused and the Co-pilot is next. He still refuses. Sure, the russians got the plane back in the air anyway, but that took balls of solid rock.

-->'''Caldwell''': [[TearJerker Mr. President - it's time to go]].

* The cable's about to snap and there's only time for one more trip from the soon-to-crash plane to Liberty 2-4, and Maj. Caldwell insists the President go; the President won't hear of going until Caldwell and Gibbs are safe. At which point Caldwell gets his own Awesome Moment [[spoiler: (making it even worse when the traitorous Gibbs[[hottip:*:who winds up going down with the plane anyway]] ''FREAKING KILLS HIM SECONDS LATER''!)]]:

* Upon dispatching Ivan
-->'''Marshall: "Get off my plane!"'''
* Halo Two's TakingTheBullet for Air Force One. Quite apart from being a ridiculously brave act, the sheer ''skill'' and ''timing'' required surely put that 'Eagle driver' on the same tier of airmanship as [[StarWars Wedge Antilles]] and [[Series/{{Firefly}} Hoban Washburne]]!

-->Standby... Liberty-24 is changing call signs -- Liberty-24 is now Air Force One! (''cheering ensues'')

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-->'''Pilot:''' (To the rest of the bridge crew) ''"No matter what happens, we land this aircraft, is that understood?

-->'''Halo Lead''': [[PreMortemOneLiner Not so fast, you son of a bitch.]]

* The cable's about to snap and there's only time for one more trip from the soon-to-crash plane to Liberty 2-4, and Maj. Caldwell insists the President go; the President won't hear of going until Caldwell and [[Series/TwentyFour George Mason]] are safe. At which point Caldwell gets his own Awesome Moment [[spoiler: (making it even worse when the traitorous Gibbs[[hottip:*:who winds up going down with the plane anyway]] ''FREAKING KILLS HIM SECONDS LATER''!)]]:

** And then the Kazakh pilot's victory roll is punctuated by Halo Lead's Sidewinder. This troper hasn't growled "''Yeah!''" that loud since [[LordOfTheRings Aragorn felled Lurtz]].

-->Standby... Liberty-24 is changing call signs -- Liberty-24 is now Air Force One!

-->The president is on board! ''(cheering follows)'' Wait. Correction ''(groans follows)'' Liberty-24 is changing call signs--Liberty-24 is now Air Force One!

* The cable's about to snap and there's only time for one more trip from the soon-to-crash plane to Liberty 2-4, and Maj. Caldwell insists the President go; the President won't hear of going until Caldwell and [[Series/TwentyFour George Mason]] are safe. At which point Caldwell gets his own Awesome Moment [[spoiler: (making it even worse when the traitorous Mason[[hottip:*:who winds up going down with the plane anyway]] ''FREAKING KILLS HIM SECONDS LATER''!)]]:

* Halo Two's {{Taking the Bullet}} for Air Force One. Quite apart from being a ridiculously brave act, the sheer ''skill'' and ''timing'' required surely put that 'Eagle driver' on the same tier of airmanship as [[{{StarWars}} Wedge Antilles]] and [[Series/{{Firefly}} Hoban Washburne]]!
** And then the Kazakh pilot's victory roll is punctuated by Halo Lead's Sidewinder. This troper hasn't growled "''Yeah!''" that loud since [[{{LordOfTheRings}} Aragorn felled Lurtz]].

* The cable's about to snap and there's only time for one more trip from the soon-to-crash plane to Liberty 2-4, and Maj. Caldwell insists the President go; the President won't hear of going until Caldwell and [[TwentyFour George Mason]] are safe. At which point Caldwell gets his own Awesome Moment [[spoiler: (making it even worse when the traitorous Mason[[hottip:*:who winds up going down with the plane anyway]] ''FREAKING KILLS HIM SECONDS LATER''!)]]:

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* The cable's about to snap and there's only time for one more trip from the soon-to-crash plane to Liberty 2-4, and Maj. Caldwell insists the President go; the President won't hear of going until Caldwell and [[TwentyFour George Mason]] are safe. At which point Caldwell gets his own Awesome Moment ( [[spoiler: making it even worse when the traitorous Mason[[hottip:*:who winds up going down with the plane anyway]] ''FREAKING KILLS HIM SECONDS LATER''!]]):

* The cable's about to snap and there's only time for one more trip from the soon-to-crash plane to Liberty 2-4, and Maj. Caldwell insists the President go; the President won't hear of going until Caldwell and [[TwentyFour George Mason]] are safe. At which point Caldwell gets his own Awesome Moment ([[spoiler: making it even worse when the traitorous Mason[[hottip:*:who winds up going down with the plane anyway]] ''FREAKING KILLS HIM SECONDS LATER''!]]):

* The cable's about to snap and there's only time for one more trip from the soon-to-crash plane to Liberty 2-4, and Maj. Caldwell insists the President go; the President won't hear of going until Caldwell and [[TwentyFour George Mason]] are safe. At which point Caldwell gets his own Awesome Moment:

** Making it even worse when the traitor Mason ''FREAKING KILLS HIM SECONDS LATER''!
-->'''The President''': I trusted you with my life!
-->'''The Traitor''': So will the ''next'' President! (One of them ''grabs the cable and gets pulled onto Liberty'', the other goes crashing into the sea. Guess which is which.)

-->'''The Traitor''': So will the ''next'' President!
One of them ''grabs the cable and gets pulled onto Liberty'', the other goes crashing into the sea. Guess which is which.

* There's only time for one more trip from the soon-to-crash plane to Liberty 2-4, and Maj. Caldwell insists the President go; the President won't hear of going until Caldwell and [[TwentyFour George Mason]] are safe. At which point Caldwell gets his own Awesome Moment:

** [[spoiler: Making it even worse when the traitor Mason ''FREAKING KILLS HIM SECONDS LATER''!]]

* [[{{CSI}} Jim Brass]] takes a bullet to the gut for the president. Certain death, right? WRONG: At the end of the film, during the rescue mission right after the president's wife and daughter have safely been transferred to Liberty 2-4, the President insists that he should be offloaded next because of his severe bullet wound, and is ultimately the only survivor of the rescue outside of the president's family. In other words, saving the president = survival.

* Hey, what about the woman who, after the phones have all been disabled, suggests using ''the fax machine'' to get a message out, and for which the President promises her a promotion to Postmaster General. (The huge smile on her face when her suggestion ''does'' work and she is parachuting to safety, probably also qualifies as a CrowningMomentOfFunny, as well.)

* Halo Two's {{Taking the Bullet}} for Air Force One. Quite apart from being a ridiculously brave act, the sheer ''skill'' and ''timing'' required surely put that 'Eagle driver' on the same tier of airmanship as [[{{StarWars}} Wedge Antilles]] and [[{{Firefly}} Hoban Washburne]]!

-->''The president is on board!'' (cheering follows) ''Wait. Correction'' (groans follows) ''[[AC:Liberty-24]] is changing call signs--[[AC:Liberty-24]] is now [[AC:Air Force One]]!''

* Really, the whole sequence with Halo Flight rescuing the plane qualifies from the Vice President's order to "order our fighters back into their airspace. Order them to use any and all means to protect the President" to the "OH SHIT!" the MIG pilots display when the Flight shows up. So very very cheesy and stupid - but awesome.

-->''[[AC:Liberty-24]] is changing call signs--[[AC:Liberty-24]] is now [[AC:Air Force One]]!''

* Upon dispatching the last terrorist