Air Force One’s Official Terror Flight Gallery

Months after Air Force One’s low-flying photoshoot struck fear in the hearts of New Yorkers, forced White House Military Office director Louis Caldera to resign, and inspired a bunch of Photoshopped fakes, new photos of the flight were released, forcibly. The Pentagon, in response to a Freedom of Information Act request, made 146 shots from the $357,000 photo op public along with related documents. Like the last official Air Force one photo over the Statue of Liberty, they’re all yellowed, so enjoy our color corrected selection below. Read more »

By Will Sherman on July 31, 2009 at 6:18 pm
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Because the infamous photo of Air Force One flying over the Statue of Liberty was so bad, Business Insider solicited readers to “make the picture better through the magic of technology.” The photoshopped results range from the ridiculous to the absurd, kind of like a few of ours. |Business Insider|

By Will Sherman on May 11, 2009 at 5:00 pm
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Parting Shot: How Low Can You Go?

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So here’s the now infamous photograph of Air Force One passing over the Statue of Liberty that sent New Yorkers running for their lives and cost a reported $357,000. Compare it with our free of charge Photoshop version after the jump and tell us which you like better. Read more »

By Bucky Turco on May 8, 2009 at 6:30 pm
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After claiming photographs of Air Force One’s $328,000 terror-inducing flight over Manhattan wouldn’t be released, the White House has changed its course, saying the publicity shots will be published in a report this week. |CNN|

By Will Sherman on May 7, 2009 at 10:32 am
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White House Shoots Down ‘Air Force One’

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After squandering hundreds of thousands of dollars to terrorize New Yorkers with a low-flying photo shoot over Manhattan, the White House isn’t even going to use the new photos of Air Force One. So nobody is stuck using outdated publicity shots, we went ahead and Photoshopped a scene with the Statue of Liberty, as well as a handful of other patriotic or otherwise notable American landscapes in the gallery below. Read more »

By Will Sherman on May 5, 2009 at 2:19 pm
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Here’s the Photo That Caused the White House To Recreate 9/11

Shot in 2005, this is the current publicity photo the White House has on file of Air Force One. Apparently Mount Rushmore is a little too passé for the new administration, prompting Monday’s terrifying photo op over lower Manhattan that does, at the very least, interject some femininity and urban style.

By Bucky Turco on April 30, 2009 at 2:01 pm
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Watching Obama’s 9/11 Reenactment From the Ground Up

Although Monday’s photos of a massive jumbo jet buzzing the skyline near lower Manhattan were chilling, and the WSJ video show an interesting angle on the low-flying Air Force One PR stunt, this reaction shot of people on the ground straight scrambling offers a terrifying perspective. Even scarier: the Feds predicted this would happen and still didn’t say shit.

By Bucky Turco on April 28, 2009 at 11:36 pm
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Government Terrorizes New Yorkers With Low Flying 747

A low flying, Air Force One lookalike buzzed lower Manhattan today with a fighter jet in tow prompting evacuations of office buildings in the city and in Jersey. Officials explained it was just for a photo op and didn’t mean to facilitate a communal 9/11 flashback. Their bad. See another photo and video of the tragedy reminding flight after the jump.
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By Bucky Turco on April 27, 2009 at 12:23 pm
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