08.06.08
Helicopter Exercise in Beijing
I just witnessed some sort of helicopter exercise just above Jiaodaokou in Beijing, a first for me in China. For approximately five minutes, three helicopters (they appeared to me to be French-made Dauphins) circled above the Jiaodaokou intersection, before heading east.
While one helicopter stayed at a high altitude the other two repeatedly descended on the intersection and then ascended again. At one point one of the helicopters descended so low it looked like it was landing on one of the four-story buildings surrounding the intersection.
Was this some exercise in rapid deployment of troops? Looked like it to me.
Note: The picture is not of the actual helicopter I saw but of a helicopter closely resembling it.
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Mul said,
August 6, 2008 at 22:14
Did these helicopters happen to be black in color? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_helicopter
ODB said,
August 6, 2008 at 22:49
Actually blue with a white underbelly, and unusually loud. So no phantom helicopters there. Loud, very loud… more like Apocalypse Now and the Ride of The Valkyries…