ST Alpha - "yeah, I just read that. Guess they bring a few with them. cool! I have not heard them at all today, makes sense." (Reading a Post)

SlickerTalk
Search Archives
The Leaderboard
The FAQ

Login
Create Account

Search Dr. S. Talk
TT/ST Wiki
How Well Do You Know ...

RSS Feed

Hosting by DigitalOcean

Support ST on Ko-Fi

Down to Post

Backboards:

Posts: 167

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

yeah, I just read that. Guess they bring a few with them. cool! I have not heard them at all today, makes sense.

Posted by loosilu (aka loosilu) Mar 19 '09, 11:38

They are kept at the Anacostia Navy Yard which is literally across the river from my work so I hear them all day.

Responses:

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

Post a message top

Replies are disabled on threads older than 7 days.