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Pentagon Releases Images from "Presidential" Flyover

Happy Friday—the Pentagon has released more photographs from the Presidential Airlift Group's NYC flyover. You remember that day back in late April, when the Boeing 747 (known as Air Force One when the President is on board) and fighter jets zoomed near Lower Manhattan building, prompting building evacuations, panic, front page marvels and annoyance. The White House released one underwhelming photo in May, but now, on a slow summer Friday, we've got more to peruse—here's the PDF.

ABC News reports that the photographs were released via a Freedom of Information Act request. The Air Force also released supporting documents (PDF 1, PDF 2).

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By Jen Chung in on July 31, 2009 4:42 PM

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  • JLRodP

    these pics are junk! i would give them some credit if they where actually taken with the statue and the manhattan in its background. it looks like it was shot in the middle of a lake at the heart land.

  • the3rdbridge

    Nice photos, shame so many people had to crap their pants...

  • ides_of_march

    Your tax dollars being flushed down the crapper.

  • Steven

    Who was the one that took the pictures? Such crappy quality. They hired an intern for the shoot?

  • savedbyzero

    scrolling back/forth thru the pdf is trippy.

  • Toby von Meistersinger

    They look like they need oodles of Photoshop work, which makes one wonder why they didn't save the money to just Photoshop it to begin with saving time, money and scaring the bejesus out of oodles of people.

  • :)

  • LO-RES enough?

  • Just and FYI that I pulled the photos from the pdf that was released. It's not like they provided high-res photos of the shoot. That said, I color corrected them as best as I could given what I was working with.

  • pastaboy12

    high-res/color treated or not, the pix really aren't that good to begin with

  • I agree with both of you on your points. But I just wanted to let you know what I was working with for the original photo.

  • americaonline

    Makes alot of sense. but you'd think that the press office would release better quality shots though knowing that all the major media outfits will pick it up...

  • BklynsFinest

    I think we can all agree to speculate that the "presidental flyover" was probably the military testing some aspect of readiness. Maybe low altitude radar tracking and intercept of passenger jets, in prevention of future 9/11 style attacks. right?



    I mean really...

  • americaonline

    whoever their press person is really needs to learn how to compress files properly. A couple of them look like they might actually be decent shots, but are saved as compressed as possible causing more degradation than is acceptable(ESPECIALLY from a $400,000 shoot...).

  • colonelcasey

    Nice but it looks like it could use a heck of a lot of photoshopping.

  • John_Matrix

    air force one and the symbols of america: ellis island, statue of liberty, goldman sachs tower.

  • Cautious Pessimist

    Copy of Photoshop: $400

    A few hours of a Photoshop-jockey's time: $200

    Actually taking real pictures of Air Force One: Priceless. Oh no, wait, actually I mean several hundred thousand dollars.

  • Dead Himmler

    Using the old mastercard commercial to be funny is really just being intellectually lazy.

  • Cautious Pessimist

    Yeah, well, it's the best I could do on a Friday afternoon.

  • Suck it, DH!

  • valeriob

    That's what they came up with? What did they do use their camera phone?

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