Every rally has:
-2 cranes w/ Giant Flags
-2 or 3 sets of grand stands
-stage and PA system
-barriers, aisles, guiding devices
-media accomodations
-have to deal w/ Airport Security and Local LE
-essentially each one is equivalent to broadcasting a concert or sporting event
And sometimes they put these together in a 24 hour period.
IT IS AN INCREDIBLE LOGISTICAL ACCOMPLISHMENT to pull something of this scale together in such limited time.
How the fuck do they get enough Choppers and Cars around the country? Is there a military carrier flying around that drops the car off just before hand or are there many “Beast” Cadillacs, or, does he only use the Beast at certain stops and they organize it so that whilst he’s doing an Airfield rally the Beast is moved to the next one where he needs a car?
Logistics are something to behold, that’s for sure.
Particularly, both presidential limos, which amazingly seem to be brought to each location (not literally all of the rallies, but many of them), if only for the short drive across the tarmac. Yet, they're ready and waiting at the next one, even as close together as these two 5-rally days have squeezed them. Obviously certain things there are at least two sets of, like the government camera crew and AV equipment, the podium, etc. The rest has to be a combination of trusted regional contractors, and sets of campaign owned/leased equipment, that is shuffled around like a band's tour gig.
I'd have to guess that POTUS is the last one to arrive, the first one out, and flies slower, while the C-17(s) get loaded back up ASAP, then leapfrogs AF-1 to the next stop.
When he goes somewhere where he is going to need the beast, it is flown in before in a big military cargo plane. You can find images and video of it being unloaded.