The flight manifest only shows USAF personnel.
From the pictures, and from recollection, it was a crappy day, hazy and not clear at all.
You would have to photoshop these pictures to make them look decent. Run throught the photos and you will see the horrible colors as they buzz around the Statue of Liberty, NJ and lower Manhattan, and the haziness.
The 146 photos are stock stuff that certainly already exists.
I also thought there was a “Redtail” chase plane. There were two fighters, F-16s, but the only one in the pictures does not have a red tail. The Redtail must have been the photo plane, then.
A joyride on a crappy, hazy day, to take mediocre photos of AF-1 that already exist in better colors and wasting $ 328,000, adding to the degradation of the precious greenhouse, adding pollution to the air and wasting precious fuel(/sarc)?
Someone is still pulling our leg.