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Originally posted by Now_Then
Originally posted by riley
I thought that low would be a no fly zone?
When it comes to Air Force One and the USAF I don't think there is any such thing as a 'no fly zone'!
Originally posted by DEEZNUTZ
A 747 at that altittude assuming they were maintaining the 250 knot speed limit below 10000' would be burning around 30000 - 40000 lbs fuel/hour. The F-16 around 15000 lbs/hour. THat's lots of JP8 used to get some shots of Air Force 1 over New York.
Originally posted by adigregorio
I find it odd that people discount the comment '20 feet from the building' but when you say that a plane could not fly like that in regards to 9/11 you are a 'Truther'.
Que sera sera
EDIT--
Something about this smells fishy, real fishy. I am anxious to hear more eyewitness accounts.
Least the pictures give crediblity to the supposed 'cover story'.
[edit on 4/27/2009 by adigregorio]
Originally posted by riley
I thought that low would be a no fly zone? Why would they need to take pics of a look alike to air force 1? They could just use CGI if they needed it as a backdrop.. and they've just told the world they've got a decoy plane..? Put civilian life in danger (not to mention multimillion dollar aircraft) for some promo pics? Sounds like bollocks to me.. unless they've completely done away with risk assessment.
I think it was the real plane but they had to make a detour because of a security threat. Perhaps the airport he was meant to land at had a swine flu scare or something.. the timing is a little odd.
[edit on 27-4-2009 by riley]
Originally posted by yellowcard
Everyone knows they have a decoy plane
They have had National Geographic specials about it There are two planes, and neither are Air force 1 until the President is actually on board. Don't be so naive.
Originally posted by Now_Then
I'm fairly sure the aircraft was the subject for the photos and not the view point
Originally posted by Erasurehead
We had a bit of a scare this morning around NYC. A low flying 747 was circling lower Manhattan and came very close to buildings across the river in Jersey City, NJ. Some construction workers said that the plane came within maybe 20 feet from a building. All the buildings in the area were evacuated. The military is saying that this was a training excercise. People in the area are not really buying this explaination. Usually there would be advanced notification about something like this and the plane came very close to occupied buildings in the area. I saw the plane flying at about 1000 feet over my building followed by 2 military jets. Bad idea if this was just training.
cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com
(visit the link for the full news article)