Cheaper Ways to Do It

Recently, some moron in the US Air Force thought it would be kind of cute to get a picture or two of Air Force One, the president's plane, flying past the Statue of Liberty with a jet escort. So they fueled up Air Force Two, which looks a lot like Air Force One and flew it low past the Statue of Liberty and New York City. Not surprising, the people of New York City completely freaked out and evacuated buildings and went running in the streets and the Mayor was ticked off in a big way. Word is the whole thing probably cost us around half a million, not counting the lost wages in NYC. The White House, sensing a PR disaster, apologized and expressed ignorance of and outrage over the whole affair. This kind of spending looks really bad during a recession.

The problem I have with the whole thing is that with today's modern computer graphics technology, they could have left the planes on the ground and still worked up some nice images.


Here's a picture of me at the Wright Brother's Memorial with Air Force One flying over behind me.