[Scan-DC] Odd visuals today

Fri, 16 Apr 2004 20:31:37 -0400

Interesting... awhile ago, maybe around 6, a couple of us saw a yellow 
'copter flying maybe SW over the back end of Montgomery Village in 
Gaithersburg - same model (appearance) as the MSP "Troopers" - are those 
Eurocopters?  (Actually, I guess they're called "Dauphines", right?  I'm no 
good at all with aircraft types and names!)  Not the same engine tho, by the 
sound - seems to me I saw somewhere that the engines in the MSP birds are 
unique to them... at any rate, not sure who the one we saw was - too far 
away to see the reg number.

There was a post on here awhile back about an RFI investigations van, that 
was spotted here in G'burg; the conclusion was that it belonged to a private 
contractor - tomorrow I'll see if I can find it and repost...

DK

>From: Andrew Leyden <[email protected]>
>To: [email protected]
>Subject: [Scan-DC] Odd visuals today
>Date: Fri, 16 Apr 2004 17:10:29 -0400
>
>It feels like I've been in my car for the last 24 hours, but I've seen some 
>rather interesting things in the last day (all unfortunately without my 
>scanner).
>
>Yesterday, approximately 11:00 AM, I saw (what looked like) two Blue or 
>Black Eurocopters flying across Southern Anne Arundel county, toward the 
>South.  If they were military, they could have been heading to PAX River 
>(I've seen some planes follow the same line) or AAFB--not sure.  I thought 
>they might have been Trooper helicopters going to a big wreck, but wasn't 
>sure.  They didn't look like military bird (like I said, they looked like 
>Eurocopters, same shape as DC's police helo) but they were black or blue 
>(or hell, even dark green) and flying in formation.  Maybe it's those 
>"black helicopters" that are based in Roswell and run the world on behalf 
>of the aliens or something....
>
>Today at about 2:00 I saw two F-15s buzzing out what I thought was 
>National.  They were heading North up the Potomac more or less (I was at 66 
>and the Beltway looking East) when I caught them low and fast over the 
>horizon.  Not sure what that was all about.
>
>Also today I saw a PEPCO vehicle called "RFI Investigator"  It was a pickup 
>filled with antennas and a Google search indicated that PEPCO has a pretty 
>active RFI interference program.  Kind of neat.
>
>Not sure if anyone caught anything on these, but thought I'd mention them.
>
>
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