Posted on 07/31/2009 1:39:34 PM PDT by Free ThinkerNY
Responding to a Freedom of Information Act request, the Pentagon has released 146 photographs from the ill-fated April Air Force One flyover over Manhattan that resulted in the resignation of White House Military Office director Louis Caldera in May.
Air Force spokesman Andy Bourland tells ABC News that there have been several procedural changes to ensure nothing like this ever happens again, with more approval required for proposed flights, and more public affairs involvement to make sure the public and relevant officials have been informed.
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Soetoro should have resigned over this.
Why the expensive fly over?
I mean if photoshop is good enough for 0bama’s birth certificate, wouldn’t it be just as good to photoshop AF-1 into stock NYC background photos?
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I still want to know who was on the flight.
*shrug* I’m sure it was no one important or controversial.
Shot this email to happeningnow@foxnews.com this am:
Re. the Air Force One NYC flyover:
1. I could have PHOTOSHOPPED that image in under 20 minutes. There was NO need to blow OUR dough and scare hell out of folks;
2. Many of us want to see the PASSENGER MANIFEST that the “OPEN and TRANSPARENT” Obama WH REFUSES TO RELEASE. There is more than just a little speculation — and OUTRAGE — that the The First Harpy, her mama, the girls and a load of their pals were simply JOY-RIDING at OUR EXPENSE — AGAIN!!!
I realize that the 300K+ cost of that little jaunt is chump change to the chumps now infesting Washington but it is a serious metaphor for their particular form of elitist madness.
Your reporter this am really pussyfooted around some of these issues.
What happened to “We report, you decide?”
Dick Bachert
Somebody important was on board that plane.
The F16s are carrying live ordnance.
FASCIST Obama believes "Rules don't apply to him."
May God reward him, according to his works.
And the rest of y'all, don't stand too close to the flames.
Those pictures remind me of this clip:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cvxEEXvFb2M
Funny thing is this clip was made a few years before AF1 flew over NYC.
Hold muh beer and watch this.
great job. I just sent one their way also.
pacity!
Those?
They're photoshopped in...
http://www.dod.mil/pubs/foi/newyorkcityflyover/Air_Force_One_flyover_photos.pdf
6 meg Pentagon (PDF) file with 146 photos
Wait a minute. According to the NY Daily and the USNews links below, there was only Air Force One and one F-16. Who took the picture of both planes in the same frame? Besides, didn’t the original pictures of the F-16 show a red tail which caused the flap over the Alabama fighters movie? I don’t see a red tail.
And while they were photoshopping it into a stock NYC photo, they could have done it with CLEAR and BRIGHT photos that were taken when there was NO smog in the sky. What I like to call a MONTANA DAY! (Although I live in Pennsyltucky).
My internet connection is too slow to download the photos here.
I’d be curious if they show any fighters with red tails, the symbol of the Tuskegee Airmen.
Obama invited a couple of surviving membes to his inauguration, and the original photos seemed to show a fighter with a red tail—but it wasn’t very clear. There’s a film being made about the Tuskegee Airmen in WW II, and there was some conjecture that Obama was doing this to associate himself with them as black patriots.
There was at least one on-line report from someone in Hoboken that he saw a red-tailed fighter accompanying AF-1.
Of course, we also have to take their word for it that these photos now released are genuine. I’m getting very paranoid. So, do any of the photos show red tails on the fighters?
Dimwits rule!
The F-16 shown above peeled off before the fly by stunt happened in NYC. The red-tailed f-16 was the one who took the camera phone snapshots and followed AF1 around NYC seen in the videos. Definitely not a sanctioned Air Force-1 photo-op.
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