Originally published at: https://boingboing.net/2019/11/16/extinction-rebellion-activists.html
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Was the image chosen to be ironic? The jet is in NSF livery, with National Center for Atmospheric Research painted on it. I guess the good guys can’t use these either…
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The site that hosted the image only had images of Gulfstream jets that were government owned, or operated by government agencies. Probably the reason they were public domain images.
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Fine with me.
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Needing a shot of a plane /in the air/ limits the search, but I find plenty of free-to-use images of private planes on the ground.
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https://duckduckgo.com/?q=gulfstream+jet+flying&t=osx&iax=images&ia=images seems to offer a few options…
I have long been of the opinion that the whole approach to security at airports is based not on any real threat of political terrorism, but on the fear of ecology activists.
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The illustration for the Gulfstream V Wikipedia page is a Gulfstream V with nondescript livery in flight, and is free to use.
Looking up the registration seems to suggest that this particular plane is a 3M corporate jet.
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N73M.
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Flickr offers a search option to find free-to-use photos.
Now we’re getting somewhere. Far more productive than shutting down oil production/transmission infrastructure, just eliminate the actual consumption.
If you combine this with one of those giant protests from last month, you could shut down all of,say, Heathrow, and make a real statement.
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