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It would be my luck that he just saddled up his taser and I would be the first bug to fry. I was in San Diego over the weekend and Uncle Sugar was on the same floor of our hotel with equipment set up out on the porch towards the bay listening it all around them. Wonder if the pick any good stuff. Easy on what you say...

Lynn

At Whiteman there was no problem with the B-29, just they had parked a B-2 about 50 ft from the fence line soooo I stoped. If we had just drove by... At Offutt I had no problem with the B-17 but I cheated, I had my brother (retired AF) with me. I did run into a small hassell at Riverside airport.

Again it's not worth risking it.

All these "hassle" stories remind me of a saying that a certain General made semi-famous. It goes:

'What good's a little power if you can't abuse it?"

Mudge the powerless

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Ztex,

I fly out of that same airport. I was parked in front of the terminal, and climbing out of the plane, I saw the Metro you are talking about parked in front of a hangar. I was looking, not taking pictures, from a distance of about 75-100 yards from the ramp and the little men in the black shirts told me to move along.......

I told them I needed to finish my post-flight. They told me to be quick and not loiter!!!!

Perhaps someone who is a lawyer as well as a photogapher coould challenge this practice, or ACLU might be interested. Make sure you are on public property of course. Ain't it great to be treated like a criminal these days when you try to take an airline flight. The security Vopos sure do a good job of protecting us from Grandmothers with Polident. I haven't heard of them catching any real terrorists, but they shot a passenger in
Florida whose sin was trying to get off the plane. I had a secret security clearanced in the service, not that I knew anything vital. I went to same high school in Houston as the boy cheerleader. I am an airline stockholderwith no criminal record. A group of CAF members

flew 2 dozen airline execs for Fairchild(a fun weekend for all), and a week berfore 9-11 I flew the CEO and his wife of a major airline, but I used to get hasseled every time I traveled on a one way ticket. It's irony that US has spent $300 B on the war and the terrorists did 9-11 for probably $200K!

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Just the other day I received a brochure and some stickers from AOPA concerning their Airport Watch program. As far as photography goes, the AOPA urges people to be on the lookout for “Out-of-the-ordinary videotaping of aircraft or hangars”.

Here’s some great advice:




In more troubling news, I’ve heard from an airline friend that airline employees in uniform and with SIDA badges are having their sandwiches confiscated if they contain mayonnaise, mustard, jelly, etc. Gotta love the Thousands Standing Around.

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I have been reading stuff on-line and these kinds of stories are popping all over...people being told they can't photograph airports, bridges, buildings, train stations..etc. Security has run-a-muck...

Just be careful out there with your cameras...I could have been fined up to $2,000 for my airplane picture taking activities at a public, city owned airport.

24 hours later and I am still pretty miffed about this occurance...

I guess I'll let others take the photos...Found virtually the same machine here....http://us.airliners.net/photos/middle/5/6/2/0540265.jpg

http://us.airliners.net/photos/middle/4/4/9/0875944.jpg

GRRRR...

That is all....

I know I said "that is all" but...

I was able to recover the two of the photos using a free program called PC Inpsector - Smart Recovery.

and just for fun ... here they are (not good shots but...)





Thank you

That is all....

Z

OOHOO...Ztex..Stickin' it to Da Man!!

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The way I see it is if the goverment doesn't want us lowly plane watchers to see it then they need to keep their secret stuff based at area 51.
But hey! They persist in flying to civlian airports to have lunch and socialize in their flights suits with the ramp girls.
Personally as a taxapayer I really don't care to see "Billy Bob Redneck" pumping fuel into Air Force, Navy, Marine or whatever equipment. Where is the security in that? Maybe that's what they don't want us to see "the lack of their own security".....It's all so hipocritical.