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All That For This: Flyover Photo Released (Pic)
wcbstv.com ^ | 5/8/2009 | Marcia Kramer

Posted on 05/08/2009 1:40:58 PM PDT by SonOfDarkSkies

President Barack Obama has accepted the resignation of an official who authorized the presidential aircraft flyover in lower Manhattan last month, CBS 2 has learned.

Louis Caldera, the director of the White House Military Office, handed in his resignation Friday. The news comes as Defense Secretary Robert Gates says the Air Force flyover that sparked a panic was not adequately reviewed and approved by senior service and department officials.

The flyover was arranged as part of a photo opportunity for White House records. The official photo was released along with Caldera's resignation and the official report on the flyover.

(Excerpt) Read more at wcbstv.com ...


TOPICS: News/Current Events; US: New Jersey; US: New York
KEYWORDS: af1; airforceone; bho44; bhoairforceone; flybye; scareforce1; terrforceone; usaf
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To: SonOfDarkSkies
The $380,000 Obamination and mockery of the phony Global Warming Hoax, terrorist buzzing of the NY Financial District that sent thousands running into the streets screaming, low quality that is so bad a 5 minute photoshop would be far, far better....PHOTO!

The official crappy Obama Air Force One photo (just dreadful):

A photoshop that is vastly superior on every level!


41 posted on 05/08/2009 2:03:01 PM PDT by FormerACLUmember (Chains you can believe in.)
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To: socal_parrot
I’m getting something about the symbolism of the office of the President overshadowing liberty.

Speaking of the office of the President overshadowing liberty, I heard on WABC radio this afternoon that the steps to the crown on Lady Liberty were going to re-open to the public on July 4. They were closed shortly after 9/11/01. This is considered to be a major "reversal of the policy of the Bush administration".

They then aired a soundbite of NY Rep Anthony Weiner saying something to the effect that who better to be the first person to climb those stairs and represent liberty than Present Uhbama. I wanted to puke.

42 posted on 05/08/2009 2:03:33 PM PDT by arasina (So there.)
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To: Carley
"Will the msm ever get tired of being lied to?"

Apparently never.

IMO, they simply don't care if it is a lie as long as the lying is being done by a fellow socialist democrat.

43 posted on 05/08/2009 2:04:06 PM PDT by Designer (We are SO scrood!)
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To: Tatze

It is strange that there are shadows on the aircraft, yet none on Liberty Island?


44 posted on 05/08/2009 2:05:09 PM PDT by SonOfDarkSkies
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To: SonOfDarkSkies

Are they implying that they did all of this for 1 picture? Now that is one expensive picture.

They really do think that we (the country)are as dumb as it appears by the vote in November. Well maybe most of us are. LOL


45 posted on 05/08/2009 2:05:17 PM PDT by WHBates
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To: SonOfDarkSkies; devolve; ntnychik; PhilDragoo; MeekOneGOP; dixiechick2000
That's a disgraceful picture to have cost what it did. Too dark to even see the Statue of Liberty!

 


46 posted on 05/08/2009 2:05:20 PM PDT by potlatch
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To: stylecouncilor

Though not even a 400.


47 posted on 05/08/2009 2:05:23 PM PDT by onedoug
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To: UB355

I would think there would be a shadow of the plane on the ground. There is a shadow of the statue and of that boat in the water.


48 posted on 05/08/2009 2:06:02 PM PDT by FroggyTheGremlim
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To: Tatze
Ok.. I use to work with USAF Photographers for over 22 years

That has to be one the WORSE Aeriel photo I have ever seen. It looks like the shot was from one of the F-16 chase planes by the reflection in the upper right-hand corner. The camera was improperly set.. the exposure sucks. At the very least.. its in focus.

There are more shots.. I would at least like the FULL disclosure.

49 posted on 05/08/2009 2:06:34 PM PDT by Kitanis
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To: TomGuy

The call signs “Air Force One” and “Air Force Two” only apply when the President or Vice President is embarked.

If neither the President or Vice President is on board then the call sign is “Special Mission XXXX” where XXXX is the tail number.


50 posted on 05/08/2009 2:06:51 PM PDT by Natty Bumppo@frontier.net (We are the dangerous ones, who stand between all we love and a more dangerous world.)
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To: SonOfDarkSkies
I adjusted the lighting a little.....What time of day was the Airfarce one buzz? Does the nose of the plane look artifically lit or is it just breaking into the sunlight?


51 posted on 05/08/2009 2:07:05 PM PDT by Electric Graffiti (Yonder stands your orphan with his gun)
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To: UB355

I’d like to see the schedule of the tourist boat in the back ground.


52 posted on 05/08/2009 2:07:30 PM PDT by JoSixChip
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To: FormerACLUmember
True.. the quality is better in the Photoshop version.

But there is a Defense Department policy.. NO PHOTOSHOPING imagery of USAF assets.

53 posted on 05/08/2009 2:07:40 PM PDT by Kitanis
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To: TomGuy
FoxNews guy said this one is AF2 (2nd plane designated for the Prez) and was so designated because TOTUS was not on board this flight, thusly, not identified as AF1.

If he said that, he was wrong. When neither the President nor VP is aboard, they go by something like SAM28000 and SAM290000

54 posted on 05/08/2009 2:09:01 PM PDT by El Gato ("The Second Amendment is the RESET button of the United States Constitution." -- Doug McKay)
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To: Electric Graffiti

10:00 to 10:30 am!


55 posted on 05/08/2009 2:09:40 PM PDT by SonOfDarkSkies
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To: llevrok
The photo file has all that informantion embedded in (were it a digital photo).

None of those details are left in the image from ABC website.

56 posted on 05/08/2009 2:09:50 PM PDT by Tatze (I reject your reality and substitute my own!)
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To: Tatze

Should’nt the shadow lines near the plane engines paralell the lines in the background? can’t really tell, but it is an awfull shot through a curved window with window frame in bottom right corner.


57 posted on 05/08/2009 2:10:10 PM PDT by steelie (Still Right Thinking)
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To: Tatze

Looks like the pilot used a $200 digital camera. This is no professional USAF photo. This whole thing stinks.


58 posted on 05/08/2009 2:10:42 PM PDT by opticks
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To: Joe 6-pack

59 posted on 05/08/2009 2:11:04 PM PDT by LucyJo ("Yep, son, we've met the enemy and he is us.")
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To: SonOfDarkSkies
It is strange that there are shadows on the aircraft, yet none on Liberty Island?

I have no doubts that it is an authentic picture. I question WHEN that picture was taken. Was it just a photo from the archive to throw out to an adoring media who would lap it up without question. That's why I'm focusing on the tail number. Is that the correct tail number for the plane they said was used?

60 posted on 05/08/2009 2:12:59 PM PDT by Tatze (I reject your reality and substitute my own!)
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