He had come to Schiphol especially for Trumps plane, the Air Force One, with telephoto lens. Airplane spotter Storm Idema (22) from Alphen dreamed of photographing the plane, but that turned out not to be that easy. “It’s not my fault.”
It is a special week for the Dutch aircraft spotters. Because if the president of the United States lands at Schiphol, then of course you want to see his flying mobile as well as possible. Together with about a hundred other aviation lovers, Storm has therefore been committed to Schiphol in recent days to photograph all the flying clean. But that American beauty Kieken, that turned out to be very difficult.
“Wait a minute, do I hear disappointment in your voice?” Says a scorched Ronny Balk in his radio program Afslag Zuid. He himself loves aircraft, so he has been living with a storm for days. “Yes, you hear it right”, Storm responds. “Unfortunately, I was unable to photograph him with the take-off.”
How can that be? Well, that has to do with safety. Trump, the president of the United States, is perhaps the most important head of state for NATO. America is getting rid of a lot of money and is one of the biggest players at the political world tournament, so it must cost what it costs happen that something happens to him. On which job will he land? And which cars does he get in afterwards? As long as nobody knows that so quickly, nobody can respond to it with bad intentions.
“And then he was gone.”
But therefore no aircraft spotters. Although it was coming on the Kaagbaan and went from government aircraft on Wednesday, it turned out at the last minute that Trump would leave a different job. “So it’s not my fault, I blame the bus company. I had been at Schiphol for three hours and maybe I waited 45 minutes on the bus. And then he was gone.”
The same story happened on Tuesday too, when he turned out to be at the wrong job again. Fortunately, he was able to take a picture of far away. “I have him in the photo, but not quite the way I wanted it,” he says with disappointment in his voice.
Only he doesn’t let it go out of the field. “I still give the day an 8,” he says. “I was able to talk and see devices with a lot of people. So my goal was successful.”
