There have been a few military chopper sightings today. From my place I saw 3 Chinooks/Sea Knights flying in formation northeast through Queens, a Blackhawk at LGA and two other choppers at Wall Street.
Anyone know what's been going on?
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There have been a few military chopper sightings today. From my place I saw 3 Chinooks/Sea Knights flying in formation northeast through Queens, a Blackhawk at LGA and two other choppers at Wall Street.
Anyone know what's been going on?
all my sources came up with nothing. sorry...
Learned this evening that Obama will be in town on Thursday...they may have been running some training exercises for that.
to add to that it would explain multiple pavhawks zipping around over the south shore today along with a lone Stallion that hubabubba'd down the beach at 300 feet lumbering ever so slowly.
Had a flight of 2 UH-60's land FRG - Sheltair about 10 mins ago. Probably somehow related. I can't get pics unfortunately.
Two UH-60's came in yesterday and did a stop and go on our helo pad at EWR for familiarization they said
TFR is up for NYC:
http://tfr.faa.gov/save_pages/detail_0_9644.html
that used to be my excuse too.... =)Quote:
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Where is he going?Quote:
Originally Posted by AirtrafficController
1PPQuote:
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Thanks. Picking my son up at JFK tomorrow night (lands 8:08) and hope it isnt delayed.Quote:
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You down wit' 1PP?Quote:
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Yeah you know me.
Also, is that Police Plaza or Penn Plaza? :)
It's One Police Plaza in Lower Manhattan.Quote:
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So when exactly is AF-1 due in? Thursday at what time? Thanks.
Then uptown to the St Regis on the Upper East Side for a fund raising dinner. I heard he is supposed to leave JFKQuote:
Originally Posted by AirtrafficController
by 8:30 and my sons flight is due to touch down at 8:08 so we shall see.
That's correct here is the schedule for
Thursday May 13th
8:35PM THE PRESIDENT departs New York, New York
John F. Kennedy Airport
9:30PM THE PRESIDENT arrives Andrews Air Force Base
9:55PM THE PRESIDENT arrives at the White House
and i did see some military helicopters crossing the Hudson in route to i guess JFK at around 8:25
His flight arrived 20 minutes early and we were out of there by 8PM. Did get a nice look of AF1 sitting over
by the hangars.
I heard several passing today; they woke me up. I live in Oakland Gardens (North Queens) and I saw one CH-47F Chinook and before that one that looked like a Bell AH-1Z Viper (going based on google images to best-match what I saw). I've been in New York since 1992 and I don't recall ever hearing or seeing military choppers in these parts before.
The Marines are here!!! 8) That was a Sea Knight and Cobra part of the MAGTF demos going on. They have oneQuote:
Originally Posted by johnandrewnyc
at 10Am in Flushing Meadows Park so that was probably where they were going. Get there before 2 and you can see
them depart.
I think all the chopper sightings are related to the air show for Fleet Week on Sunday over the Hudson River. I spotted 3 A-10's and an Osprey heading north over the Hudson. The guy at the Intrepid said they had an air-sea rescue demo but I missed it as the West Side was jammed with traffic on Memorial Day. The NY Daily News said there was some sort of chopper demo on Sat. at Flushing Meadows involving the Osprey.
Forget the Daily News. Check out OUR reporters and photogs here on the website.Quote:
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Threads: USMC Invade Corona Park AND
2010 NYC Fleet Week
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two (properly) green UH-60s flew southbound over the hudson around 1000ft AGL. also, 401CV was at the east 30th st heliport when i passed there about 20 min prior.