I think it’s safe to say that the popularity of the airliner stair-car in the popular zeitgeist peaked during the initial run of the show Arrested Development from about 2003 to 2006. So let’s take a moment and actually look at this vehicle, one that so often just gets processed away into the background, doing its humble job, quietly. It was our own Bishop who showed me these images of Nixon entering China, which I think must be part of his research on Quaker American Presidents