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Photos: Air Force One's Botched NYC Flyover
Remember that horribly planned photo op the Air Force staged in April over lower Manhattan so they could have a new stately picture of Air Force One flying over the Statue of Liberty? The one the Air Force forgot to tell New York officials about, which led to a bit of a panic when un-warned New Yorkers saw a giant airplane and two F-16 fighter jets flying low near the tip of the island?
Well, the DoD has finally released the pictures from that morning, and I must say, they're not very impressive. The Air Force photographer snapped 146 photos—you can see them all here in the PDF the DoD released—and I've picked out the best one for you. It's fine, but I still think the photo the Air Force wanted to replace with the Statue of Liberty flyover—Air Force One flying over Mount Rushmore— is much more impressive.
I can't help but wonder
I can't help but wonder whose brilliant idea this was and who did really pay for this in the end? Did we ever find out?
Man, that has to be the
Man, that has to be the biggest waste of money EVER. Maybe one good photo, the main thing it shows is how dirty New York and its air is.
Bleah
What a waste of time and money. Someone should have been able to figure out beforehand that if it wasn't possible to take Air Force One *really low* over the statue, the result would be a bunch of really dull photos like the ones the Air Force has released.
None of the new pictures holds a candle to the one of Air Force One over Mt Rushmore.
It reminds me of the scene
It reminds me of the scene from "30-Rock" when Jack erroneously decided to stage a fireworks display at Rockefeller Plaza in a post 9/11 New York City.