VC-25 (AF One) and F-16s do some sightseeing...

[outbreak]

Jesus, what a terrible photo. You'd think that they would at least have the sense to clean it up a little in photoshop before releasing it. Or, hell, maybe their shutter-actuator is so lousy that this IS the corrected image...

Thing is, they created all this commotion by flying a 747 with a fighter escort over NYC for a picture, when they could've photoshopped a better pic to begin with, and saved $349,900.

[JarheadBoom]

I've taken better pictures through a dirty ARO window.

Not an improvement over the Mt. Rushmore pic.

Fraud... Waste... and Abuse! Who's gonna call the hotline?

[snoopyeast]

FAA cancels Navy’s New York flyover

Posted: 06:29 PM ET

By Mythili Rao

CNN

NEW YORK (CNN) — Less than a month after an unannounced government-sanctioned lower-Manhattan flyover frightened New Yorkers, the Federal Aviation Administration turned down a U.S. Navy unit’s request to fly military aircraft 3,000 feet over the Hudson River in New York City Monday morning.

In a statement, Jim Peterson, a spokesperson for the FAA, said that after receiving the Navy’s request to fly a P-3 squadron over the area, the FAA notified the New York mayor’s office.

A spokesman for the mayor’s office told CNN that after the April 27 Air Force One flight for a photo session, a new notification procedure was instituted for potential flyovers. “We were notified by the FAA this morning,” said Jason Post of Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s office. “We told the FAA we didn’t think there was enough notice given, and then the FAA — on their own — made the decision to cancel the flight,” Post said.

Navy spokesman Cappy Surette said later that a P-3 squadron based in the Brunswick, Maine, had planned to fly in a training exercise. Surette explained that more than two dozen such Navy training flights have occurred over the Hudson since 2005. “It allows the squadron to practice complex air-traffic handoffs in a busy quadrant,” he said.

“The request was made, they said ‘Not this time,’ we said ‘OK.’ ” Surette added.

Darn Air Force screws everything up!

Edited May 11, 2009 by snoopyeast

[nsplayr]

More pics released yesterday.

[aceart]

I've noticed that the credit on these is DoD and not even "USAF photo by SMSgt. so and so." However, as someone that's spent some time shooting this sort of thing I'd have to say I wouldn't want my name attached to these images either! I was shocked to see the first one they released and these aren't much better IMO. I was surprised to find out that there was a very experienced USAF photographer shooting this stuff. Frankly the career field has seen many of it's good 'shooters' leave over the past few years, but this guy ... he's done better, he should know better.