r/TwinTowersInPhotos

happy 250th birthday America

On July 4, 2000, a Northrop Grumman B-2 Spirit stealth bomber flew past the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center over Lower Manhattan.

A New Orleans photographer, Sean Gautreaux, was on the Hudson River shoreline with a 35mm camera. The bomber gave almost no warning, and he barely had time to lift the lens. The photo he got has become one of the most talked-about flyover images in aviation history.

It shows the flying-wing silhouette of the B-2 near the antenna of the North Tower. The flyover was part of OpSail 2000, a maritime celebration that brought tall ships and military flyovers to New York Harbor for the millennium Fourth of July.

It was the first time a B-2 had ever flown over the World Trade Center. It was also the last. Fourteen months later, on September 11, 2001, the towers were gone.

The B-2 is one of the most secretive aircraft ever built, designed to slip past enemy air defenses undetected, at a cost often put at roughly $2 billion apiece. Gautreaux says only two other photos of the moment are known to exist. Most people on the ground never realized the bomber was overhead until it had passed.

Happy 4th of July my brochachos

So this is a photo compilation I have been more or less wanting to do for quite some time now as I thought it would be a fun and unique post to add to this subreddit.

Now, obviously I posted here a total of 20 photos here as this is the maximum limit a subreddit message or post will allow you to add as that is the number I wilfully posted as such. Now my personal favorite of all the photos I have added are the Jery The Damaj album cover plus the cover for the Superman 2 original soundtrack cover but those are just me personally, of course. Enjoy!

Weren't the escalators on Vesey Street always mechanical? And what happened to the escalators at WTC 6 Northwest?