A Guy spray-painted Airforce 1, WOW*, Presidential Graffiti....... all on Tape

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I was impressed when I found this one. A guy named Mark Ecko penetrates
Airforce 1 security, makes it to the President's plane and spray-paints
it with Graffiti, wow, and was not busted. He could have easily
attached anything he wanted to. In this case it was only black
Spray-paint. You got to see this:
http://www.jumpingpixels.com/airforce1.html

[Joe Delphi]

> wrote in message
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> I was impressed when I found this one. A guy named Mark Ecko penetrates
> Airforce 1 security, makes it to the President's plane and spray-paints
> it with Graffiti, wow, and was not busted. He could have easily
> attached anything he wanted to. In this case it was only black
> Spray-paint. You got to see this:
> http://www.jumpingpixels.com/airforce1.html
>

Is this for real or a hoax? Haven't heard about it anywhere else...

JD

[Yeff]

On Tue, 18 Apr 2006 22:57:22 -0700, Joe Delphi wrote:

> Is this for real or a hoax?

Of course it's a hoax:
<http://web.morons.org/article.jsp?sectionid=10&id=6914>

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-Jeff B.
zoomie at fastmail dot fm

[WaltBJ]

Seeing as how AF-1 has the same priority as an active alert aircraft,
how would you rate your chances of getting to it? I can tell you where
you would end up - on your face, spread-eagled, with a loaded M16
pointed at your back.
Saw a GS18 on the ground once - started to take a shortcut across the
'red line'.
Walt BJ

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On 20 Apr 2006 19:28:04 -0700, "WaltBJ" >
wrote:

>Seeing as how AF-1 has the same priority as an active alert aircraft,
>how would you rate your chances of getting to it? I can tell you where
>you would end up - on your face, spread-eagled, with a loaded M16
>pointed at your back.
>Saw a GS18 on the ground once - started to take a shortcut across the
>'red line'.

I had to "rescue" our flight engineer one day when, at
Seymour-Johnson, he decided to take a "closer look" at a KC-135 behind
some red lines. I found that being diplomatic was a Good Thing. I
promised that the FE (an ADJ1; E-6) would receive some "counseling"
when we got home. I also pointed out that we wern't going home until
we got him back. I don't know if that influenced the Lt. Col. to let
him go or not, but he did. The FE by this time was pretty much
"scared ****less." When we got back home I told the CO what had
happened. He had the Command Master Chief to make sure that the
promised "counseling" was done. Even reserve units can function "as
advertised." :-)



Bill Kambic
Haras Lucero, Kingston, TN
Mangalarga Marchador: Uma Raça, Uma Paixão

[Joe Delphi]

> wrote in message
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> On 20 Apr 2006 19:28:04 -0700, "WaltBJ" >
> wrote:
>
>
> I had to "rescue" our flight engineer one day when, at
> Seymour-Johnson, he decided to take a "closer look" at a KC-135 behind
> some red lines.

OK - time for my story.

I worked at NAS Point Mugu, CA during the 1980s. There was an old hangar on
base that was always posted off-limits because of "PROJECT X". We had to
walk past the "PROJECT X" hangar everyday to get from the parking lot to the
hangar where we worked. The doors were always closed with some type of
death threat warning posted on the doors. Then one day in about 1988 I was
walking into work and noticed that the hangar doors were open about 6
inches. Well, you know....I just HAD to pause and stick my nose in there to
find out what the big PROJECT X was all about. What I saw: The hangar
contained about 15 of the black Secret Service limousines. When President
Reagan flew into Point Mugu on Air Force One he normally de-planed and then
hopped onto a Marine Helo to make the trip to his ranch. But sometimes the
fog rolled into Point Mugu and it was not safe to fly the helo so they kept
these limousines stored there just so that he could get to the ranch (about
50 miles away) on the highway. Sort of a Plan B thing. I think the hangar
door were open that day because he had left office and the new President
(Bush) would not be coming to California so someone had to move the limos to
the NEW Plan B location, probably a Naval Air Station near Kennebunkport,
ME. I remember that shortly after this, the hangar doors were fully open
again and it was used for what airplane hangars are normally used for and
the death threat signs were also gone.

So the lesson that I learned from all of this is that "PROJECT X" = parking
lot for expensive cars.

JD

[~^ beancounter ~^]

nice JD, hey...the best naval airshow i have
ever seeb was @ pt magu nas...

nice facility...

[~^ beancounter ~^]

nice JD, hey...the best naval airshow i have
ever seen was @ pt magu nas...

nice facility...

[~^ beancounter ~^]

A startling Internet video that shows someone spraying graffiti on
President Bush's jet looked so authentic that the Air Force wasn't
immediately certain whether the plane had been targeted.

It was all a hoax. No one actually sprayed the slogan "Still Free" on
the cowling of Air Force One.



The pranksters responsible for the grainy, two-minute Web video _
employed by a New York fashion company _ revealed Friday how they
pulled it off: a rented 747 in California painted to look almost
exactly like Air Force One.

"I wanted to do something culturally significant, wanted to create a
real pop-culture moment," said Marc Ecko of Marc Ecko Enterprises.
"It's this completely irreverent, over-the-top thing that could really
never happen: this five-dollar can of paint putting a pimple on this
Goliath."

The video shows hooded graffiti artists climbing barbed-wire fences and
sneaking past guards with dogs to approach the jumbo jet. They
spray-paint a slogan associated with free expression.

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

"We're looking at it, too," said Lt. Col. Bruce Alexander, a spokesman
for the Air Mobility Command's 89th Airlift Wing, which operates Air
Force One. "It looks very real."

Alexander later confirmed that no such spray-painting had occurred.

Ecko acknowledged Friday that his company had rented a 747 cargo jet at
San Bernardino's airport and covertly painted one side to look like Air
Force One. Employees signed secrecy agreements and worked inside a
giant hangar until the night the video was made. Ecko declined to say
how much the stunt cost.

"It's not cheap," he said. "You have to be rich."