Wednesday, June 6, 2012

It's a bird, it's a plane...



A Chinook model CH47 military helicopter  made an emergency landing safely in a big old field in Hadley last night. The copter is based at Bradley Air National Guard Base in Connecticut and operated by the Connecticut Army National Guard.
 

The big bird was on a routine training flight and fortunately managed a safe landing near the busy commercial malls nearby.  Today by the way, marks the 68th anniversary of D-Day.
After landing the helicopter was safely secured


Helicopter view from the bike path

Bye bye Birdie 1:10 PM
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7 comments:

  1. AnonymousJune 6, 2012 at 4:00 PM

    Thats a big helicopter!

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  2. AnonymousJune 6, 2012 at 6:55 PM

    Whoa, cool. Larry, any clue what one of these badass copters cost?

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  3. Larry KelleyJune 6, 2012 at 6:59 PM

    $25 million or so.

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  4. AnonymousJune 6, 2012 at 9:50 PM

    holy macaroni. who got the contract to build these monster machines? was it boeing?

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  5. Larry KelleyJune 6, 2012 at 9:54 PM

    Yep.

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  6. AnonymousJune 7, 2012 at 8:04 AM

    Glad it was a safe landing!

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  7. AnonymousJune 9, 2012 at 10:52 PM

    wow. that's a lot of bread. do you have any colleagues who dig into defense spending?

    or dpw use of tax payer purchased equipment?

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