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loosilu: The choppers they showed Obama getting on yesterday were white over brown...identical to the ones they show at the White House.

Posted by BAD (aka BAD) Mar 19 '09, 11:36

Obama landed in Long Beach yesterday, and that was about which direction the three choppers were coming from.

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yeah, I just read that. Guess they bring a few with them. cool! I have not heard them at all today, makes sense. - loosilu Mar 19, 11:38 11
- Quantico is primary, Anacostia is secondary. -- nm - TWuG Mar 19, 11:43 5
  - Yes, I think so. They go back and forth quite a lot. My apartment is directly on their route. -- nm - loosilu Mar 19, 11:44 4
    - GOOD MORNING LOOSI!!! RISE AND SHINE!!!! -- nm - Barack Obama in a chopper with a megaphone Mar 19, 11:46 3
      - Heh. This struck me as really funny. -- nm - nubby Mar 19, 11:49 1
        
        some days I swear it's true! -- nm - loosilu Mar 19, 11:49
      - usually it's one at a time but when they're in a group, LOUD! And we have an occasional Chinook, which is loud. -- nm - loosilu Mar 19, 11:47
- They are loud. Both times I saw them, they were at low altitude -- nm - con_carne Mar 19, 11:40 4
  - IIRC, it's supposed to be 500-1500 feet. -- nm - loosilu Mar 19, 11:43 2
    - Yep, that's about where they were at -- nm - con_carne Mar 19, 11:45 1
      - they fly much lower in DC. Once they hovered over the Tidal Basin and blew all the petals off the cherry trees. - loosilu Mar 19, 11:50
  - He is supposed to give a town meeting in L.A. in about a hour. -- nm - BAD Mar 19, 11:43

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