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KJ
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June 20, 2009 - 09:47 AM |
 
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Anybody else notice an increase in helicopters flying over the city? Hell, why am I saying "increase" considering last year and for the previous 8 years I never saw a single one. This last few months I've seen about two dozen. |
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FooJay
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June 20, 2009 - 10:28 AM |
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yeah i noticed. i never saw one either until last weekend. must be expo related. |
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mat
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June 20, 2009 - 10:39 AM |
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nah, just all those government officials trying to outdo each other. Sick of their Buicks, the new toy is a chopper.
You'll see them parked out the front of KTV's soon, in the middle of the road blocking traffic. |
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Shangstar
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June 20, 2009 - 10:42 AM |
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btw are private helicopters allowed? Presume not really, otherwise they would have been doing sight seeing tours |
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spandex
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June 20, 2009 - 11:02 AM |
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Shanghai Daily 21 May 2009
SHANGHAI police put their first helicopter team into the air yesterday during a drill centered around crime and accident scenarios. The city has received three choppers so far, and another is on order. |
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compsolutions
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leidelaohu
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June 20, 2009 - 01:58 PM |
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| SHANGHAI police put their first helicopter team into the air yesterday during a drill centered around crime and accident scenarios. The city has received three choppers so far, and another is on order. |
Oooh ! Now THAT is some smart thinking ! They really need four helicopters because with all that traffic up in the sky and the slow speed that helicopters move and the massive number of gang shootouts and fleeing desperadoes that Shanghai has, one wouldn't be nearly enough !
One could extrapolate from this to conclude that China will never have an economy, ya know. |
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MrPuxi
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June 20, 2009 - 03:15 PM |
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yeah, S.A.... time to show them pigs how we do on tha west side. eye in da sky ain't gonna catch this mutha...
damn, this is shanghai not LA. i think mat hit it on the spot. |
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Zak101
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June 20, 2009 - 09:56 PM |
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Interesting that this has popped up on a thread.
I was out on the balcony the other night (in Suzhou) and noticed a very slow moving "engine on" rotating red beacon, way above the skyline.
We have some flyboys zooming around airspace here in formation - never at night though, and the slow speed suggests chopper.
Yep KJ, years here too and never seen one. Night flight for a bit of hush-hush ?
Seen the cops buzzing around with motorised paragliders a few years ago - the noise was a give-away !
http://www.extremesportscafe.com/Graphics/parajet/nirvana_canopy.jpg
Please don't bother with the UFO gags... 
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p1atl10
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June 21, 2009 - 05:15 AM |
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Just wondering.....
Did the helicopters look like this? |
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sinned69
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June 21, 2009 - 08:39 AM |
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we see helicopters regularly down here near Ningbo coast, they're military and often fly two or three in formation. |
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dr3x320
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June 21, 2009 - 09:39 PM |
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to clear this thread up, there is a gov't official who was born in Shanghai, and he is visiting over the past week, there is an increase in police and traffic especially in the zhanning/jingan/hongqiao districts. Stop blaming **** until you know the facts folks. Read the newspaper ffs. |
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scamparella
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June 21, 2009 - 09:42 PM |
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| to clear this thread up, there is a gov't official who was born in Shanghai, and he is visiting over the past week, there is an increase in police and traffic especially in the zhanning/jingan/hongqiao districts. Stop blaming **** until you know the facts folks. Read the newspaper ffs. |
jeez, why so angry???
chill man, there was no agression in this thread before you arrived! |
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KJ
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June 22, 2009 - 07:31 AM |
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No **** Sherlock. And I started noticing these choppers about 8 months ago. |
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RussianBear
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June 22, 2009 - 07:52 AM |
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FYI:
http://www.sinodefence.com/airforce/helicopter/z9.asp
Z-9 Multirole Utility Helicopter
The Zhi-9 (Z-9) multirole army support helicopter is a licensed copy of the French Eurocopter AS 365N Dauphin II. The Chinese contractor of the co-production is Harbin Aircraft Manufacturing Company (HAMC) in Harbin, Heilongjiang Province. The contract for the Chinese local production of the AS 365N Dauphin II using the designation Z-9 was signed in 1980. Under the contract, Eurocopter would provide HAMC with 48 sets of AS 365N kits to be assembled in Harbin. The first Chinese assembled AS 365N was completed in 1981.
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