So, what happened?
Black helicopters sometimes fly over my house, too, but that’s because there’s a National Guard facility several miles away.
In my area, some helicopters are used for hunters.
That’s good advice, but the numbers are not necessarily that large and difficult to read. 12” (height) numbers are only required on planes/helicopters that are capable of traveling something like 200 mph (or close to that) leveled out. Otherwise, it’s something like 2” or 3” number is all that is legally required.
I was supposed to get the 12” lettering on my plane, but the builder fudged the speed of it ever so slightly. Not up to no good, but damn, those 12” numbers look awfully damn ugly on a small plane to me.
Do you live relatively close to a small airport? Most people do, and they don’t even realize it. I’m with Johnny L.A., it sounds to me like flight training. Perhaps see if there’s a helicopter flight school in the area, and go visit to see what it’s all about.
National airport is sort of close by, maybe 8 miles away. We are sometimes in the flight path of the planes coming or going there, depending on the wind I suppose. Fort Belvior is nearby too. There appear to be all kinds of helocopter services around there. None of this explains why they need to circle my neighborhood so often and so low.
A Google seach tells me I live within minutes of both the Helicopter Association International and the American Helicopter Society. Who knew?! It’s a wonder I don’t hear the damned things every day.
Perhaps there’s some bigwig at HAI or AHS that lives down the street, and everybody’s just swinging by to say hey!
Or a neighbor who sunbathes in the fenced backyard.
Do they even have traffic helicopters anymore? I know on the beltway, they have cameras.
Between cameras and cell phone tracking, I would be surprised if they still use them.
shiftless, Will Smith and Tommy Lee Jones will be by shortly, they’ll be wearing dark shades and black suits. They’re gonna ask you to stare into ‘this’ device. DON’T DO IT!!
What were we talking about? 
Shakes is referring to the Neuralyzer device used by Agents J and K in the “Men in Black” movie series. If you don’t remember it, it’s because they’ve already used it on you, at least once.
carnivorousplant was playing along with the joke. As if he’d been “Neuralized.”
What the hell are you two talking about?
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Bets it’s a Helicopter Flight School. Pilot training.
And there’s some feature on the ground, easily visible, that they use as a navigation mark.
32 posts and nobody brings up the username post combo?