Formation flight panicks Bostonians

From today's AVWeb:

FORMATION PHOTO SHOOT PANICS BOSTONIANS
In another time, Boston residents might have thrilled to the sight of
Sean D. Tucker leading a formation of four aerobatic aircraft on a
photo shoot overhead. But in the post-9/11 world, office workers
stream outside not for a better view but because they think they might
be under attack. Such was the case last Friday when the flight, all
properly approved by the FAA, was launched to provide publicity photos
for a local air show. At least 50 people fled the Prudential
building's 23rd floor and about 100 gathered on the ground after the
planes flew by.
"Give me the name of the person who sanctioned this so I can become a
crazy person and call them four times a day and demand an
explanation," said one worker who asked that The Boston Globe not
identify him. "We're all still on edge. We don't need this.
http://www.avweb.com/eletter/archive...ll.html#187550

Geeze. I can understand why the guy who said "so I can become a crazy
person and call them four times a day and demand an explanation"
didn't want to be identified. He **IS** a crazy person. Giuliot
Douhet's 1921 treatise "Command of the air" has finally come to
fruition, only there were no bombers, no bombs, not even a war going
on, just four light aerobatic airplanes flying passively in formation.

"Everyone in the world is crazy except for thee and me, and sometimes
I wonder about thee." Old Quaker saying.

Corky Scott