Was just about to go outside to do some shoveling (yeah, I'm a slug; also was finishing up a non-Boston project), when this loud rumbling started coming from the north. And then these two large Army (?) copters zoomed past, headed south, parallel to Hyde Park Avenue. It's the route news copters take on their way back from the latest accident on the Deck or wherever, but they don't usually fly so frickin' close to the ground (that bar at the bottom is one of the utility lines along the street).
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uh-oh
By anon
Mon, 01/18/2010 - 3:05pm
Adam is seeing black helicopters now. Quick, call the guys in the white suits at MacLean!
update your knowledge base;
By anon
Mon, 01/18/2010 - 3:50pm
there are no white coats at MacLean. they're all in dark suits and ties. military research controls the hospital now.
www.mclean.harvard.edu
By Anonymous
Mon, 01/18/2010 - 9:16pm
http://www.mclean.harvard.edu/about/facts/
So that's what it was
By bph
Mon, 01/18/2010 - 3:48pm
I heard those too, they were really loud, (near South St.) but by the time I went out I didn't see them.
CH-53
By deselby
Mon, 01/18/2010 - 3:56pm
Looks like presidential livery, but I don't think the president rides the CH-53, it's an escort ride for staff and guards, I think.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/av8pix/2346819662/in/...
Ayup
By Kaz
Mon, 01/18/2010 - 4:19pm
The markings made me think it was HMX-1 too, but I didn't know they had Super Stallions. Their Wikipedia article mentions that they use them for "utility" purposes. So, I'm guessing with the holiday, part of the President's flight crew was allowed to stay an extra day up here or something.
Not Army
By Kaz
Mon, 01/18/2010 - 4:11pm
Looks like a CH-53E Super Stallion which would make it either Marines or Navy.
"Non-Boston project"?
By Flack Flackwell
Tue, 01/19/2010 - 9:58am
What's this "Watershed Post" thing you're linking to?
A community Web site for the Catskills I helped build
By adamg
Tue, 01/19/2010 - 11:33am
Lissa Harris and Julia Reischel, who own/run it, are a couple of bright Boston journos who are going back to their ancestral homeland (well, Lissa's) to do a kick-ass hyperlocal site. And I don't say that just because they hired me to build it :-). Yesterday was the soft launch (i.e., it's now publicly accessible, but probably still has a couple of kinks to iron out); I spent most of the morning working on that, rather than shoveling.
whee!
By Harris
Tue, 01/19/2010 - 8:41pm
Well, our Google Analytics account is working. It led me back here. *grin*
If we succeed at all, it will be because we shamelessly ganked all our good ideas from Adam.
The helicopters the president
By anon
Tue, 01/19/2010 - 2:31pm
The helicopters the president uses are flown by Marine Corps pilots. When the president is onboard, the call sign is "Marine 1" just like "Air Force One" when he is on the 747. One interesting thing about the photo is that the landing gear is down.