Hey, there! Log in / Register

Loud copter-like craft rumble over Boston

By adamg on Mon, 09/16/2024 - 12:06pm
Two Osprey helicopters

Erikk Hokenson shows us the two Osprey VTOL thingees that flew over the inner harbor this morning.

Anne Hjortshøj reports they buzzed over the Back Bay around 10 a.m., and we here at the UHub mountain lair in Roslindale are pretty sure they flew over us, as well, heading southish, although we did not rush outside to see, but our feelings that the low, rumbling sounds we heard were not from the usual Boston/Norwood copter traffic are bolstered by Kaz, who reports he heard them over Dedham.

WJRJr suggests they were going back to wherever it is they came from from a weekend airshow in Beverly.

Neighborhoods: 
Back Bay
Downtown
Roslindale
Dedham
Free tagging: 
Helicopters
Boston Harbor


Ad:


Like the job UHub is doing? Consider a contribution. Thanks!

Comments

By Kaz on Mon, 09/16/2024 - 12:36pm.

That GOOSE12 track definitely didn't come over Roslindale/Dedham (and I'm not sure I heard one...or two) aircraft overhead when it passed.

I wonder if GOOSE12 took the proscribed route...and the other Osprey chose to...do something different and more direct (with his ADS-B turned off).

There's only 1 ADS-B signature currently for an Osprey on the East Coast at the moment (GOOSE12 is still flying past Delmarva at the moment). So, I definitely think one of them isn't/wasn't squawking and I thought it was only 1 that went overhead earlier...

up
Voting closed 17

By Frelmont on Mon, 09/16/2024 - 1:28pm.

In looking for the Ospreys now I am seeing a USAF 747-200, 92-9000, no callsign AF1 paint scheme obv. is landing in Phila. now out of JB Andrews on ADBS.

Took video of two Ospreys transition modes last year- ish traveling over Roslindale-ish moving from Cambridge-ish towards the Blue Hills-ish. Quite a sight. At that time +/- a week I thought I caught a glimpse of an Osprey low over the Charles and heard reports as well. Who knows the deal with those?

up
Voting closed 21

By brianjdamico on Mon, 09/16/2024 - 2:04pm.

I heard them from my office at NU but didn't get to the window in time. One of them was showing up as a hex code on ADS-B that wasn't correlated with any known aircraft, the other one wasn't transmitting anything that I could see at that time. They were heading northeast and ended up back at Beverly and both were showing us unknown aircraft with just hex code ID. I didn't know what they were from the sound but almost immediately found photos on social media of the pair.

That's not uncommon for military aircraft, either for none of the individual aircraft to be recognized by the ID they are transmitting or for just one aircraft in a group to be transmitting over ADS-B while they are together.

up
Voting closed 26

By KTK on Mon, 09/16/2024 - 1:00pm.

Can confirm that they flew over Roslindale. They came up from Stony Brook Reservation and turned right to follow the general direction of Washington St inbound.

up
Voting closed 24

By Mary Dominica Dyer on Mon, 09/16/2024 - 3:01pm.

Definitely flew over our house on Beech.

up
Voting closed 21

By Muerl on Mon, 09/16/2024 - 1:06pm.

Those things always remind me Half-Life and make me wonder if I have any 'nades left.

up
Voting closed 24

By schneidz on Mon, 09/16/2024 - 3:57pm.

IMAGE(https://i.ytimg.com/vi/3OiA7moPcPs/maxresdefault.jpg)

up
Voting closed 21

By anon on Mon, 09/16/2024 - 1:48pm.

Ah, 2 accidents waiting to happen.

up
Voting closed 30

By schneidz on Mon, 09/16/2024 - 8:14pm.

https://www.universalhub.com/comment/900951#comment-900951

up
Voting closed 15