so on February 3, 1999 at new hudson airport (Y47, for you pilots out there ) there was this black helicopter out on the ramp. i have more pictures, but lack the upload space. i'll put them up on a website for all to see. what i want to know is what is the thing on the bottom? know it's hard to see right now, but i'll ahve more up soon.

Ya know I've seen a helicopter like that chase UFO's near crop circles before on video. That thing on the bottom may be a surveillance camera.

Very nice pics, Just parked there taking up space.

Yupe, thats a DEA Air Patrol Copter.

The device is exactly that, an IR/ low light/ Thermal camera system.

thank guys. i was wondering about that.

insite... the picture won't work for me. what is it?

It looks like an infra red camera, our local police force here in the UK use the same thing! Strange that it's all black though!!!!!!

One strange thing I did notice about the pic though ... it has no registration number on the side of it??? If it was an american helicopter then it should have had a prefix of N followed by numbers .... but there is nothing ... strange huh?

AR

All i know is that thing in the front looks like a pointy stick it splices telephone wires if they are in a chase and flyiny low i dont know if this is accurate i heard this somewhere. Cool pics btw

Oh yeah, I missed that number "20820 ", but it's not an aircraft designation as far as I know????? (could be wrong on that!)

ShadowMan: Good call on the phone cutting device, but wouldn't the downdraft of the roters move a telephone cable to much? to be able to split it in half??? (again could be wrong on this)

AR

Im not too sure but i remmebr seeing a police video and they were discribing the parts on a police helicopter and it had the same thing and the cop said it was to cut down telephone wires. But if that where to take place with your idea well con edison wouldnt be too happy now to your question "ShadowMan: Good call on the phone cutting device, but wouldn't the downdraft of the roters move a telephone cable to much? to be able to split it in half???" well im thinking it would cause hell of alot of trouble there are many possibilities with it getting tangled im sure and well some power lines are thicker then others and well i cant be too sure but i know the front device is for cutting them head on one slice and its done as i stated before for an example if they are in a chase and broadcasting or even chasing the car.


[Edited on 5-3-2004 by ShadowMan]