That Air Force One picture that turned NYC upside down..
 

They didn't really clear this with a lot of people....but they did bring a "skilled navy photographer"


....if I were him, I'd be hiding my identity too. Here she is.

http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/...n2WGFJvSZedDoA

I bet anyone that is anywhere near competent with photoshop could have made a picture identical to that only better without freaking people out

Yeah, but its the US government. What do eyou expect? What a waste of 300k.

quality sucks. they don't have a better pic?

Isn't it GREAT seeing how our tax money is being spent

Turned NYC upside down? ... is there something I am missing here?

yes...buildings were being evacuated and so on...the plane was being escourted by a fighter jet and they did many circles around the statue of liberty...in other words...they made people shit their pants

is that really the final copy, because it is a terrible photo if so.

As far as I know, yes. I'm sure they'll get somebody to photoshop the cockpit out of the corner and the reflection just in front of the plane, but I haven't seen any other copy of this photo. And it really sucks in comparison to the old Mount Rushmore photo....

http://www.flightglobal.com/blogs/fl...mb-560x450.jpg

I just love that retarded fuckin new yorkers are tripped out by AIR FORCE ONE flying low. Yeah... Barack Obama is a terrorist. He's planning on flying AFO into the Empire State Building. This was a dry run. They don't want the same debacle that Bush had when he flew those 3 planes into those 2 buildings on the other side of town.

It's pretty tough to tell if it's Air Force One when it's flying over you. I'm pretty sure that at that point all planes look the same. Don't tell me if you were in Manhattan and you saw a plane flying noticeably low near the city you wouldn't at least remember (if even for a moment) what happened there eight years ago.

^^
And that's pretty tasteless. JMO

Damn, can't see original pic.

http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/...n2WGFJvSZedDoA

paste that in your browser.

It would certainly be an eerie reminder of 9/11 but honestly I can only hope Americans can tell that that is AFO 1) by its paint scheme or 2) by the f16 fighter jet that was tailing it just out of this picture.

I can see very much so how this could look to the people of New York. When your on the ground you cant always see PAINT SCHEMES or markings, and the FACT that there WERE fighter jets tailing it only makes things look worse IMO! I say this is just another dumb ass move by Obama. Why the fuck do the citizens of NY need to relive 9-11? I wonder how many people that had a loved one die that day seen this dumb ass stunt and thouht it was another attack? This shit is just really fucked up IMO.

From what im reading Obama was not the one who signed off on having this done, and he was pretty pissed off when he found out they flew it over manhatton.

http://www.cnn.com/2009/POLITICS/05/...e.one.flyover/

http://www.cnn.com/2009/POLITICS/04/...ane/index.html

i can definatly see how this churns new yorkers stomaches.. its a big fucking plane that looks like it is being chased by a fighter jet. lol


http://i2.cdn.turner.com/cnn/2009/PO...plane.wabc.jpg

Yeah I also had heard that obama had not asked this to be done.

Also from that picture, looks to be of cell phone quality I can easily ID AFO, so to the naked eye I can only imagine that picture to be clearer and the colors to be more vibrant. Maybe just me but some people are a little to frustrated/angered by this. Yeah it was probably poor decision with out some sort of notice, but seriously it shouldn't be that big of deal. But that is just me.

If you can't tell it's AFO from the ground even when it's 10000 feet up, you have your eyes closed. There's only 1 plane in the world with that paint scheme and a (pair of) F16's following it.

If you think terrorists are going to attack the same way twice, you're not aware of history.

If you think that my previous remark was tasteless, wait for a second before reading this:
I hope a bunch of really really stupid new yorkers were so tripped out by what is obviously AFO (even from the super shitty cell pic I can tell by the paint scheme) that they started jumping out of tall buildings. Yeah... america's toughest city. My ass! America's whiniest bunch of ninnies is more like it.

Oh wah 8 years ago 20 guys pulled one over on us and now we're all a bunch of chicken shit pussies. EEEEEEEEEEk an airplane!

You guys fail to understand that I see low flying LARGE aircraft all day long. It's not a big deal unless it's coming at you. If it is, follow the KYAG (kiss your ass goodbye) protocol and all will be fine.

I don't know, we've got a plane company up here called like Korean Air or something like that that's got a very similar blue and white paint scheme on it. So if I personally saw a plane flying around really low with people running and screaming "terrorists!" around me it might take me a bit to identify it. And I can't even begin to explain how tasteless that comment was. Is that something you found?

damn... couldn't even offend king? I give up. I'm gunna go be nice to people for a while. You guys are no fun.

EDIT: and no, I just made that one up. It's the little red guy's fault. All he does is sit there on my shoulder giving me bad advice and shitting chips.

i'm from new york city and i am trying really hard not to be angry at what this uneducated redneck is posting up.

lol...

i dont know about everyone else but i really never just sat down and stared at pics of AFO long enough to learn to identify its paint scheme from underneath

i guess i just have ......a life...?

lol

:kekekegay:

Sorry? I realize I come across easily offended on this forum, but that is simply not the case in real life. In real life I'm the most over-opinionated apathetic dude there is. (which in lehman's terms means I have an opinion about everything, but generally don't give a shit)

+1

Well that's the NObama administration for you...