On Tue, 14 Jul 2009 08:37:51 -0400, H the K
wrote:

Note that I am not saying the military should avoid dangerous flights,
or building fly-bys, or whatever. All manner of training is important to
military aviators. But there is training and there is stupidity, and
flying that close to an apartment building for the purpose of "showing
off" is stup

Close to the building? It looks like the camera was far from the
scene, and used a very long lens. With the flattened perspective the
plane could fair distance, a couple of hundred feet or more, from the
building.

Casady