Winston Smith wrote on Mar 13^th, 2014 at 4:05am:


I don't know why the squadron flew over but it wasn't necessarily related to the helicopter. The squadron was just on its way to somewhere.

I can remember years ago, one of the kids at the school I worked at had a dad who was in a special govt dept, forget the name of them, but they do stunt flying and displays.

Anyway, one day they arranged to detour from their route to fly over our school and do a special display. Everyone was out there on the oval, about 800 of us, all waving madly, while they looped and went back and forth for 15 minutes, before flying off.

Now, we are in an outer suburb some 35 km out of Melbourne. I bet a lot of people looked up in the sky that day and wondered what on earth?? Why are they doing that here? etc

Now as for your helicopter. Probably police chopper monitoring traffic. We get them over our way, sometimes back and forth for hours. If there is anyone on the run, the chopper will come in lower and shine the light in the yards and walkways etc. Have had that happen before too.
But 99% of the time it is traffic duty.

It's not really a stretch of the imagination to assume that activity as described was a police chopper on a search. Unfortunately police choppers haven't progressed to silent mode yet..........maybe in a decade or two.......

For god's sake grow up!

sherri wrote on Mar 14^th, 2014 at 12:22pm:



RAAF Roulettes perchance?

I became obsessed with WW2 aircraft when I was 12, particularly Axis bombers. There was something about the exotic asymmetry, with all their turrets, gondolas and barbettes. I have dozens of plastic kits of them packed away in storage.