Again, I pulled the second photo off the New York Post's website. It's the only photo to show much detail of the smaller aircraft.
Oh, btw .... the Post in April made no mention of ANY significance of what appears to be a RED TAIL.
To quote jagusafr in April:
"I’m not even sure what to think if this was indeed support for a private, commercial movie venture about the first Black fighter group that ends with a Tuskegee a/c escorting the first Black president... Given this president, I think it’s a poke in the eye to the Tuskegee legacy. Those men were absolute heroes. I’ve had the opportunity to chat with (Dr.) Roscoe Brown - all of the squadrons in the 340th Flying Training Group are Tuskegee legacy squadrons and I had the privilege of being around when they were reconstituted - and he and the other men faced challenges so much greater than the current occupant that it’s shameful to try to draw a comparison." ~ Colonel, USAFR
Ping
OK. That’s just sick to use them in that way. Disgusting (if true).
Thanks for posting the link to the DOD pdf.
Having gone through the entire set of photos, NOT A SINGLE ONE carries any indication of being taken by professional photgraphers. Even an overcast day can be compensated for by the use of filters, i.e. haze, polarizing, and a few others.
More telling is that NONE of the photos have any dramatic impact of the plane and NYC. In fact, for the vast majority of the photos, one would have to look very carefully and be familiar with aerial photos of NYC to identify them as such.
Nor, do any of them appear to have been enhanced with the normal “darkroom” procedures of increased contrast, burning in or dodging of problems of uneven lighting.
The long delayed release certainly cannot be attributed to processing. It can only be because they calculated that short attention spans have removed them from most of the publics memory. The redacted passenger manifest also smells to the skies.
Why haven’t the MSM pressed on this issue? (I know, I know...what a stupid wuestion :)>)
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