Originally posted by Majestic12
I would be pretty alarmed if I saw Blackhawks in my area. I don't mind the Apaches, but seeing those flying tanks is unsettling.

Dude Blackhawks I believe are Troop carriers Apaches are the Bad google blackhawk and it will show a lowly armed medevac heli ona n operation Iraqi freedom webpage

[edit on 12-9-2005 by Senor_Vicente]

[edit on 12-9-2005 by DontTreadOnMe]

i would be somewhat alarmed seeing apache flying over an area repeatedly. there is a reason for a apache's to be around a major city

[edit on 16-9-2005 by whskybarjd67]

I saw 3 cobras in line fly over my moms house one Sunday morning. Id say they were 300 ft off the ground and banking to the right in a densely populated area of N Austin, Tx

Originally posted by magnito_student
I saw 3 cobras in line fly over my moms house one Sunday morning. Id say they were 300 ft off the ground and banking to the right in a densely populated area of N Austin, Tx

Another Austinite!! I see stuff like That all the time, have you ever been to P-Ville?

Just preperation for something bigger in my opinion. I've noticed quite a few helicopters over my area recently and i'll be honest after this situation My right side views, and I mean political right side, are waning for lack of a better word

Edit: (situation) the amazing situation with katrina.

[edit on 16-9-2005 by madmangunradio]

Larger helicopters use jet engines for thrust in addition to the chopper blade for lift and they fly level. The nose points down somewhat on the smaller helicopters with just blades. The larger the copter, the bigger the blade, the slower it rotates and the lower the audio pitch. The largest military copter, the sea stallion, sounds like the drums in a marching band that "go right through you." Yeah, and any aircraft with diagonal stripes is coast guard.

When I mention military surveillance, I often get the objection of the costs involved in tracking drug traffickers and pedophiles, but it actually doesn't cost the government anything. These military choppers and fixed-wing aircraft are flown by active- and reserve- duty officers just putting in their flying time. Since they have to fly to keep up their credentials anyway, may as well bone up on their tracking and identification skills by spying on those individuals the FISA court has authorized for tracking and phone tapping. (I don't want to make you feel left out, but they're not authorized to spy on just anyone.) Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR), also known in this context as "stealth radar," allows them to identify human targets on the ground and new "ultrasonic cameras" penetrate brick and mortar as well as metal to look through walls.

holy man! i've been hearing helicopters everynight flying over my house or near it,i usually sleep with my window open and i can always hear loud helicopters,at first when it started occuring i just thought "ohh no another car pursuit for the news" but one night i was outside with my dad checking the side of our houses for pigeons [because we put wiire netting to cover up the holes] and all the sudden 3 SOLID BLACK helicopters passed by and we could still hear them close to the area LOUDLY

and i've been keeping track of them,they usually come at 2-4am usually every other night,and i waited for it last week and when it passed by,the front of it didn't look like regular police or news helicopters,the front of it was like pointy,and the news or police ones i usually see are rounded.

i'll be sure to try to get some pictures of them when i hear them again,lately,especially this week and last week they've stopped coming often and i been seeing alot of f-16's? i suppose,i usually see 3-5 in the air at a time with white lines of clouds trailing behind them.

hmm..if people from all over the places are seeing them..maybe i think this might have something to do something big...just preparing...

You see helicopters at night, and they're black? Aren't ALL helicopters black at night?

Actually, the engine size has nothing to do with how loud a helicopter is. It's the rotor blade. The tips of the blades are supersonic on straight rotors, so you're hearing a bunch of miniature sonic booms. The Blackhawk and later helicopters curved the tip slightly which slows them down, so you get a quieter helicopter.

Zaphod your comment about the noise you hear coming from the rotor blades is spot on. An interesting piece of info I learned is the reason the Hueys had such a distinct thump thump thump noise to them was because they only had 2 rotor blades, but most moden helos have 4 or in some cases more which makes it quieter and of course curving the blades helps as you mentioned.

Originally posted by Zaphod58
You see helicopters at night, and they're black? Aren't ALL helicopters black at night?

no man! i could see it man haha, the moon was pretty bright and the helicopters weren't that far above my house,they were solid black and it was pointy and the dang thing was freaking loud,it had no emblems of any sort on it..

I would assume that it's probably training flights...could be wrong though.

I am very close to a base here in in the UK and have seen sone very unusual movement - used to singles but now its pairs and big stuff ie fish tank was quaking - am i alone in this ?

The UK has been certifying their Apaches for service. That could be what's going on there.

I think that you COMPLETELY missed mine as it flew right over your head. Slower now....

1. Army/Military helicopters fly in formation.
2. Army/Military helicopters are painted dark colors, with dark markings.
3. At night, even under a full moon, an Army/Military helicopter looks black.

Got it now?

Notice the color. Dark Green and even in broad daylight it looks black.

[edit on 1/25/2006 by Zaphod58]

Originally posted by Zaphod58
I think that you COMPLETELY missed mine as it flew right over your head. Slower now....

1. Army/Military helicopters fly in formation.
2. Army/Military helicopters are painted dark colors, with dark markings.
3. At night, even under a full moon, an Army/Military helicopter looks black.

Got it now?

Notice the color. Dark Green and even in broad daylight it looks black.

[edit on 1/25/2006 by Zaphod58]

man,you killed it..whatever dude i'll post the pics if i get them,i'll be chilling outside tonight...freaking loud as hell..nothing but farms in tolleson anyway..

Ok, you do that. You watch out for your black helicopters. Maybe they'll take you to the mothership tonight.

Originally posted by Zaphod58
Ok, you do that. You watch out for your black helicopters. Maybe they'll take you to the mothership tonight.

dude what the hell are you talking about..freaking retarded man...mothership..i think you've been into too many motherships..