delivery date so that means the president's choice will affect future presidents and not him. but just the notion of doing away with the current and iconic powder blue paint scheme rankles a ton of people. jfk's first air force one was a military looking silver, white and orange boeing 707 and with the help of the first lady mrs. kennedy he commissioned a french designer who came up with the color we associate with the plane today. on the topic of the change the president said today i like the concept of red, white and blue. the baby blue doesn't fit with us. people get used to something and it was jackie o but we have our own jackie oh today, it's called melania, we'll call it melania t. there's already an effort under way in congress to block