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Responding to dozens of requests from the public, the Defense Department has released 146 more photos from the infamous Air Force One flyover that struck fear in thousands of unsuspecting New Yorkers in April. The photos are posted right on the Pentagon's Website, defense officials said today. The Pentagon also released a heavily redacted flight manifest. The April 27 photo-op caused quite a fright in Lower Manhattan and New Jersey, as many people who had lived through the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks thought the city was again under siege. Workers poured out of office buildings as the planes buzzed the...

Commenter Mustang 0302 offers the most interesting theory of the day over at Just One Minute: Connecting some dots, here. At least one of the escorting F-16s was from the Alabama ANG, Red Tail and all. Could this photo op mission have any particular connection to A NEW MOVIE due out this year? Could that connection explain the WHMO's eagerness to get some current glamour shots of BHO's A/C, escorted by the descendants of the Tuskegee Airmen, while flathatting over "the target formerly known as Ground Zero"? Just imagine the powerful, beautiful imagery of these aircraft during this mission, accompanied...

This video is good footage of a Red Tailed Hawk, also known as a Chicken Hawk and it’s Song. I redid this video with a little more effects. I'm sure you will enjoy this animated video. Revski :)

When Charles E. McGee slid his P-51 fighter, "Kitten," onto the tail of the fleeing German FW-190 in the skies over Austria in 1944, he fired his six big machine guns and struck a blow for civil rights back home. Walter L. McCreary did the same a few months later, when his P-51 was hit by flak on a strafing run over Hungary and the cockpit floor began to slosh with what he thought was leaking gasoline. And so did Woodrow W. Crockett's ground crews a few months after that, when they stopped a supply train and commandeered special gas...

Kid fights off hawk to save dog By Norman Miller/ Metrowest Daily News Sunday, December 10, 2006 Call it a case of suburbia red in tooth and claw. Young Chris Campo had to fight a wild beast for his puppy’s life on Friday when a red-tailed hawk tried to turn the Weston youngster’s Dachshund into dinner. But a well-placed kick by the courageous Campo to the hawk’s head freed 5-month-old Dimi, who quickly high-tailed it to safety. “I took the dog out to go to the bathroom and he started to run around like he was kind of scared,” said...