Air Force One Has Nothing on Some Guy With a Camera
It’s no longer spy versus spy. It’s spy versus tweeter, plane-spotter, criminal, activist, bored person on the internet, and who knows who else.
On the morning of 26th December, Alan Meloy stood on the front porch of his home in northern England and noticed “murky” early clouds were clearing into a crisp and sunny winter’s day.
Meloy, a retired IT professional and a plane-spotter of 45 years, decided to grab his best camera to see if he could catch any interesting flyovers. Before long, he saw a “jumbo”—a Boeing VC-25A—and, knowing there were few such aircraft left, took about 20 photos of the plane. He could tell immediately that there was something unusual about it, though.
“It was just so shiny,” he told me. As it turned out,
