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Air Traffic Monitoring => Listener Forum => Topic started by: Biff on April 19, 2006, 11:07:41 AM

Title: Tagging Air Force One
Post by: Biff on April 19, 2006, 11:07:41 AM
This is an, um, interesting video.  :)

http://www.stillfree.com/
Title: Tagging Air Force One
Post by: KSYR-pjr on April 19, 2006, 11:29:20 AM
This video just surfaced in the aviation newsgroups as well.  

Someone there spotted the disclaimer, which is somewhat buried in the website, that this video is a clever fake.

Read the disclaimer here:

http://www.stillfree.com/legal.html
Title: Tagging Air Force One
Post by: lpower on April 19, 2006, 09:34:09 PM
top notch fake
Title: Tagging Air Force One
Post by: sean on April 19, 2006, 11:54:32 PM
I'm so disappointed in you guys...  and you call yourselves ATC buffs.  Ha.   :D

What I mean is - I spotted this as a fake in the first 10 seconds.  You're wondering how?  Because there are only about 2 antennas on the one in the video, and what strikes me as amazing every time I see the thing on TV is how it flies with so many antennas on it..  Look:

http://pictures.unlimitedpowersource.com/renotahoealbums/reno/air_force_one_arrives.jpg

And that's just what we can see from this angle.  When you see it from the side like the video it looks more like a porcupine than an airplane.

Sean
Title: Tagging Air Force One
Post by: dave on April 19, 2006, 11:58:22 PM
I know I could fly that thing.  I know I can, I know I can.
:-)
Title: Tagging Air Force One
Post by: Biff on April 20, 2006, 09:31:27 AM
Of course it's fake.  You can tell that because the guy isn't lying in a pool of his own blood right after climbing the fence.  ;)

But it's a very impressive fake.
Title: Tagging Air Force One
Post by: r0bCDW on April 20, 2006, 10:08:26 AM
Quote from: Biff
Of course it's fake.  You can tell that because the guy isn't lying in a pool of his own blood right after climbing the fence.  ;)

But it's a very impressive fake.



ahahahahah  :lol:  :lol:  :lol:
Title: Tagging Air Force One
Post by: scottskywalker on April 20, 2006, 11:52:12 AM
Yeah- I was going to say, Security Forces would have been on him very quickly. There must be multiple cameras and sensors around the real AF1. Let alone the K9 and other multiple personnel.


But... very impressive fake.
Title: Not to mention...
Post by: Hammie on April 21, 2006, 07:57:33 AM
Quote from: scottskywalker
Yeah- I was going to say, Security Forces would have been on him very quickly. There must be multiple cameras and sensors around the real AF1. Let alone the K9 and other multiple personnel.

Not to mention that they "shoot first, ask questions if necessary" if  someone were to approach either 28000 or 29000.  Both are protected to the same standards.
Title: Tagging Air Force One
Post by: Lezam on April 21, 2006, 08:01:52 AM
that plane is awesome. does anyone know what the little bump in the nose of the plane is?
Title: Tagging Air Force One
Post by: Biff on April 21, 2006, 09:46:11 AM
Quote from: Lezam
that plane is awesome. does anyone know what the little bump in the nose of the plane is?

That's the escape pod.  Didn't you see Air Force One with Harrison Ford?  :D

Actually, that's the mid-air refuelling receptacle.
Title: Tagging Air Force One
Post by: PHL Approach on April 21, 2006, 11:38:22 PM
How it was done (http://www.cavtel.net/news/read.php?ps=1015&id=14032955&_LT=HOME_LARSDCCI1_UNEWS)
Title: Tagging Air Force One
Post by: Tomato on April 22, 2006, 01:00:21 AM
I'm going to ignore the fact that it was fake...

That's an awesome clip!  It reminds me of another mockup online from a while back of a plane landiing on a freeway.  The producer/team got nice jobs... :)
Title: Tagging Air Force One
Post by: Umop3pisdn on April 22, 2006, 02:51:25 PM
Quote from: Biff
Of course it's fake.  You can tell that because the guy isn't lying in a pool of his own blood right after climbing the fence.  ;)

But it's a very impressive fake.


Haha..."impressive fake"
Title: Tagging Air Force One
Post by: Biff on April 22, 2006, 04:42:08 PM
I'm not quite as impressed now that I know how they did it. (http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/wireStory?id=1875386)  They rented and painted an actual 747.  I had thought it was all CGI.

Seems it impressed the Air Force too . :)

Quote
After the video began circulating on the Web on Tuesday, the Air Force checked to see whether the plane had been vandalized.
Title: Tagging Air Force One
Post by: PHL Approach on April 22, 2006, 05:16:56 PM
Quote from: Biff
I'm not quite as impressed now that I know how they did it. (http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/wireStory?id=1875386)  They rented and painted an actual 747.  I had thought it was all CGI.

Seems it impressed the Air Force too . :)

Quote
After the video began circulating on the Web on Tuesday, the Air Force checked to see whether the plane had been vandalized.


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