Thursday July 12, 2007
Hey look, Onajide spotted one of those black helicopters they keep telling you don’t exist. Think, indeed.
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Thursday July 12, 2007
Hey look, Onajide spotted one of those black helicopters they keep telling you don’t exist. Think, indeed.
Tags: photos, police, terrorismcomments powered by Disqus
A couple of years ago I was leaving the Fed. courthouse downtown and the security guys were talking about some unidentified small plane buzzing around downtown. By the time I walked back to my office in the Wachovia bldg. one of these things was hovering just outside. Not only do they exist, they’re not that far away.
I think it’s Wayne H’s ‘copter. What would the black ops folks be hangin’ around here for anyway? You’ve been listening to too much George Noory. Very nice and enjoyable site Mr. Houdek.
Looks like a Bell 430, a very nice aircraft. Too bad the photo doesn’t show the registry, we could have looked it up. Bell’s website advertises the 430 as having law enforcement/homeland security applications, and there was a press release and a news item mentioning a contract with DHS/Border Patrol for these aircraft back in ’04.
There are also five Bell 430’s registered in Florida to civil operators (assuming it’s local):
N430BL
LAGS AIR LLC
15065 MCGREGOR BLVD STE 108
FORT MYERS FL 33908-1902
N430Q
FCC EQUIPMENT FINANCING INC
PO BOX 56347
JACKSONVILLE FL 32241-6347
N430WH
SOUTHERN AIRCRAFT SERVICES INC
450 E LAS OLAS BLVD STE 1500
FORT LAUDERDALE FL 33301-2291
N517JS
AERO TOY STORE LLC
1710 W CYPRESS CREEK RD
FT LAUDERDALE FL 33309-1806
N557ST
SEMINOLE TRIBE OF FLORIDA
6300 STIRLING RD
HOLLYWOOD FL 33024-2153
Oh yes, Nic, I recognized it. The 430 is an excellent aircraft, and a wonderful platform for customization. (Certainly beats the snot off the AH-64 Apache, one of which seems to crash every time you turn around?) Paint it black, pop in an engine silencer, and I can’t think of anything smarter for our shadow government to be using. Surely you don’t think they’re having their own stuff custom made, do you? Nah, they’re way too smart for that.
Onajide’s post-processing stripped the EXIF data off the photo, but I wonder how fast a shutter speed you’d need to perfectly freeze the motion of a stock 430’s rotors?
I saw a black unmarked military helicopter fly right by my neighborhood the other day.. This is in Southern Florida mind you.. They are out there folks.. Just look up.