Tue 27 Jul 2010
A Hella Squad O’ Heli’s
Posted by Will under encounters
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The supposed HD video capability of my iPhone doesn’t translate well to YouTube, but I did my best the capture the thundering herd of helicopters that passed over our house this afternoon and inspired me to go a bit acapella with the “Apocalypse Now” soundtrack. Apologies for that.
UPDATE (7.28): Commenter Frank sets me straight. They’re not Apaches, they’re AH-1W Super Cobras. Thanks, Frank!
AH-1W Super Cobra attack helicopters from the u.s marines corps
Thanks for the awesome info, Frank!
was walking down sunset yesterday and saw the 10 helicopters….why were they out?
Hi KJG, the only reason I could find is that there was an air show over the weekend at Hansen Dam that reportedly featured more than three dozen of the whirly birds from various agencies. If this group we saw was part of that I’m guessing they were heading home yesterday.
cobras fly manuevers over LA all the time. Although it was neat to see a string of them flying over the ridgeline instead of the usual three.
we will never know why there were there or what they were doing. we have no idea the stuff that is happening around us. it’s not the first time i’ve seen this in the area but it’s the first time they came out as a group. black helicopters are a common sighting, especially in echo park. if only we knew what they are REALLY doing.
They went over my house, too. I think we must live in some sort of military flight path because I see this a lot – not so many and so freakin’ freaky – but a lot. My friends tried to convince me that it was Transformers 3 filming. Yeah. Not quite.
Yep………they went over my house, too! It was reminiscent of the helicopter fly overs and spraying back in the, was it 80′s? Thanks for the musical accompaniment too! Silver Lake has it all……….