Mon Aug 28, 2006 11:02 pm
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
Lynn
Tue Aug 29, 2006 1:27 am
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.
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.
Tue Aug 29, 2006 8:01 am
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
'What good's a little power if you can't abuse it?"
Mudge the powerless
Tue Aug 29, 2006 9:56 am
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!!!!
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!!!!
Photos
Tue Aug 29, 2006 10:11 am
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!
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!
Tue Aug 29, 2006 1:26 pm
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.
Here’s some great advice:
Greet strangers. Introduce yourself to new faces at your airport—particularly new flight students and visitors to your home field and transient pilots you meet. This serves several purposes; it helps give your home airport a reputation as a friendly place to fly and enables you to identify anyone that may be behaving in ways that seem out of place.
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.
Tue Aug 29, 2006 2:00 pm
There's a lot of difference between
and the AOPA's..
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....
the little men in the black shirts told me to move along
and the AOPA's..
Greet strangers. Introduce yourself...give your home airport a reputation as a friendly place..
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....
Sat Sep 09, 2006 12:36 pm
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
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
Sat Sep 09, 2006 12:58 pm
OOHOO...Ztex..Stickin' it to Da Man!!
Sat Sep 09, 2006 9:19 pm
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.
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.