Pope's US visit

[Gerard]

Oh wait I'm not finished. :D
Last night on NBC they mentioned a story how Mayor Bloomberg and the Pope had a brief chat on the steps of St. Patricks after the Mass
concerning the security helicopters buzzing about. Now I mentioned previously that the Pope had a pilots license and I had forgotten that
Mayor Bloomberg is also a pilot, both fixed wing and rotorcraft, so I thought that was pretty cool.

[moose135]

BTW-did JFK stop all aircraft movements when the Pope was on the move like they do for the President?

They did when he arrived, I assume they did the same when he departed.

[Vidiot]

Amy from NewYorkology.com not only got to follow the Popemobile through the Brooklyn-Battery Tunnel, but she also got some video of the VH-3s from her rooftop in Red Hook:
http://www.newyorkology.com/archives/20 ... ecopte.php

[Gerard]

>Amy from NewYorkology.com not only got to follow the Popemobile through the Brooklyn-Battery Tunnel, but she also got some video of the VH-3s from her rooftop in Red Hook:<

Pretty neat and if you listen to the background noise that must be Newscopter 4 hovering above them taking shots.
And thanks Moose for the other info.

[cancidas]

>Amy from NewYorkology.com not only got to follow the Popemobile through the Brooklyn-Battery Tunnel, but she also got some video of the VH-3s from her rooftop in Red Hook:<

Pretty neat and if you listen to the background noise that must be Newscopter 4 hovering above them taking shots.
And thanks Moose for the other info.

those VH-3s look so much better than the damn VH-101s in the works...

[FlyingColors]

Where are the pics you guys?!

[BigAppleCoder]

I caught a few pics of the Pope's Departure from JRB. Here's two:

First, a pic of the accompanying birds:



And here's a picture of them loading the Pope on his ride out. No farewell wave to the crowd... :(



And he's off:



Cheers!

[bluejuice]

Dont know about leaving but when the pope arrived he was slotted between 2 jetblue AC coming in along the Jersey coast. He was listed on my Flite Explorer as flight Alitalia 4002 and while everyone was landing on the 2s they diverted the pope on to 31L. No ground or air hold for the pope.