[Scan-DC] Helicopter vs. kite

[Charles Lawson]

thomasjgunn@netzero.net writes:
>
>This worries me since I fly kites down there (the mall and
>
>environs) quite a bit. So does the local kite group 'Wings Over
>Washington'
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>at least once a month on the mall. I sense a ban coming.

Well, I hope not.  I will say, though, that in the last few years, the
helicopter traffic has been getting lower and lower and lower.  I work at
the Kennedy Center a lot and have recently seen the military choppers
zipping down the Potomac at altitudes below the roof of the building! 
Their flight paths have always been required to be underneath the approach
to Runway 19 at National, but they are now well below the altitudes that
they used to use.  When you're flying that low, collisions with kites will
become common during these fair weather months.

Chas.