Subj : Re: Helicopters To : alt.tv.farscape From : weirdwolf Date : Fri Sep 09 2005 23:51:35 From Newsgroup: alt.tv.farscape Nick wrote in news:Xns96CCB0532600Endtcm@ 68.1.17.6: > Tagger wrote: > >> Just recently, Nick told us: >> >>> Ever since the hurricane hit I have had about 5-10 helicopters >>> per hour fly over my house to and from New Orleans. (I live >>> between NO and the Baton Rouge airport.) It is kind of scary to >>> see a Chinook fly over with a big load underneath. >> >> Can you get any pictures? >> >> I used to live Hunter Army Air Base in Savannah, GA. Copters >> everywhere, always. I hated the noise. >> >> Then, my landlord told me he loved the sound. I asked why... >> >> He said that if you've ever been in combat, and been saved by a >> helicopter, then you, too, would consider that to be the most >> beautiful sound in the world... > > I can but they are pretty high up and may not come out good. > Think yourself lucky, my parents live next to the runway at Scampton RAF base, they get the red arrows and various other planes flying low over their house. They had an exercise recently where the RAF flew some chinooks in low and fast, unfortunately as they went over the houses they removed the roofs. Ted -- Stare too long into the abyss and the abyss looks like a nifty place to hide the bodies .