Imagine seeing this on the Belt Parkway . . . a Bell helicopter on a trailer doing the speed limit. Aren’t these things capable of speeds more like 150?
Wait . . . this one is damaged and the flotation bags have been deployed!! It’s THAT helicopter!
If you watched network news last week, you may have seen this crash on the nightly news . . . Click on the photo for more on the New York Media Boat and its multiple possibilities.
Never would I have imagined seeing this chopper, but there it was passing me on the Belt, followed by quite the colorful escort truck running interference as needed.
I occurs to me that this chopper, reportedly a Bell 206, blurs the sixth boro/other boros distinction, making it a sort of sea bird: it typically lands on any of the terrestrial five boros, it flies seamlessly over them and over the sixth boro, which it can also land on.
Unexpected post by Will Van Dorp, who wonders where the aircraft was headed.
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May 19, 2019 at 4:52 pm
Juan Manuel Grijalvo
Must link this.
May 19, 2019 at 5:27 pm
MageB Bailey
You could have followed it. The tow truck has a boom on it so they can get the chopper of the flatbed easily.
May 19, 2019 at 5:31 pm
tugster
Thx, Mage. You know . . . I hadn’t thought of that usage of the wrecker with the crane, but that’s it. As to following . . . it had been a long day and I’d seen enough of traffic. The Belt in southern Queens and Brooklyn can have LA-scale density . . . .