Caught this unusual and stunning Sept 11th tribute from the UK’s Daily Mail today.
Photographer, Norman Kent, had a birds-eye view as nine members of Team Fastrax released the flags at 10:28AM over the Middletown Regional Airport in Ohio on Sept 11th… marking the time the 2nd WTC building collapsed ten years ago.
The team originally wanted to perform this jump memorial over the New York site, but were denied for airspace restrictions because of terror attack concerns.
The flags varied in size… the largest being 7800sf. Between the weighted flags, plus the normal demands of a traditional dive at 9500 ft elevation, this was not a task for novice jumpers. Some of the team were ex military who had served in Iraq and Afghanistan.
View a Team Fastrax photo, as well as the rest of Mr. Kent’s stunning pictures for Barcroft Media at the Daily Mail link above.
Vietnam era Navy wife, indy/conservative, and an official California escapee now residing as a red speck in the sea of Oregon blue.
WOW! Great Photo’s !! I happened to see a lone Cessna flying with Ole’ Glory following from behind on Sunday… always a great sight!!
Thanks for sharing the picture and the link Mata!
WOW! I live in Pleasant City, Ohio in the Southeastern part of the State. I wish I would have known about this. My wife and I would have attended. This received no publicity by the lamestream media that I’m aware of in our part of the State.
@Kevin Chicwak, so sorry you have to see the two-dimensional version instead.
May I suggest that you contact Team Fastrax direct? If you explain that their tribute was not getting the needed publication, they may be able to correct that for future exhibitions. And if you’re lucky, perhaps they’ll do an encore performance.
DAILY MAIL and the TELEGRAPH are excellent publications which the dimwits detest.
The only complaint I have is that the US flag is NEVER supposed to touch the ground. I am guessing these flags had to have touched the ground. I am all for displaying the flag, but we should obey the rules or have them changed.
Good display of nationalism. But I hope everyone also remembers the millions of displaced, killed, and otherwise casualties suffered by innocent Iraqis and Afghans as a result of the US war for control over oil. They are human beings too–a fact which often gets lost in the message. They also have feeling for their dead children and spouses–just like Americans.
@Liberal1 (objectivity): #7
Last I knew we wern’t getting ANY of their oil. If the wars were for oil, wouldn’t we be the first to get it?