Okay. You’re right about Naval Aviators taking aerial photography of flying in a jet; to include those things in and around the a/c.
I didn’t word my thoughts the best that I could have. I still don’t know if I can accurately word what I’m thinking. But I’ll take another stab at it.
I don’t believe this “picture-taking mission” occurred, because if someone wanted a great shot from up above AF1, taking pictures from the inside of a canopy will *look* like they were taken from inside a canopy.
Isn’t this type of photography best done via an a/c with a camera down below the plane in one of those glass-like bubbles?
Does that make sense?
Yeah but typically most of the air to air photography is done from a 2 seater jet such as the F-16B/D or the F-15B/D.
Sometimes they’ll use a small jet such as the C-21A (Learjet 35A) for photo work but the C-21 is a limited resource because there isn’t as many of them as there are of the two seat F-16 or F-15.
Out at Edwards AFB, they use 2 seat F-16’s as chase planes during testing, and they do a lot of photo and video work from these planes.
The released photo of SAM 28000 I think is a cover up. It’s not of the same quality as what’s typically done by the Air Force for promotional purposes. In fact I’ve seen footage and still pics from program testing that are of higher quality.