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Helicopters Over Beach
By: Bentmtn 5/6/2025	Posted By: Bentmtn - (Send PM) Member Since: 9/11/2020 Location: SW VA/Frisco Total Posts: 4589 Experience: Date Posted: 5/6/2025 4:47 PM
I do not know exactly what these were....I'm guessing from Norfolk, but they could not have been over 100 feet over me on HI. So very impressive and loud. I was talking to my daughter on the phone and she heard them. This stuff just is the best!

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By: Bentmtn 5/6/2025	Posted By: Bentmtn - (Send PM) Member Since: 9/11/2020 Location: SW VA/Frisco Total Posts: 4589 Experience: Date Posted: 5/6/2025 4:51 PM
Another a little closer up. I could have thrown a rock and hit it as it was so close. I did not zoom in at all.

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By: LollyGirl 5/7/2025	Posted By: LollyGirl - (Send PM) Member Since: 11/7/2022 Location: Total Posts: 979 Experience: Date Posted: 5/7/2025 6:34 AM
They came over here in SNH yesterday morning real early (1am) and yesterday afternoon. They were loud and low! Very cool!

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By: Tim-OBX 5/7/2025	Posted By: Tim-OBX - (Send PM) Member Since: 6/2/2004 Location: Kitty Hawk Total Posts: 25870 Experience: Date Posted: 5/7/2025 8:36 AM
They came by me in Kitty twice yesterday. They came south down the beach and over the ocean at maybe 100ft (legal over the water) and they circled the monument and went back north over land at 500+ ft. FAA rules are minimum of 500 ft over people and even the Army follows the rules, most of the time. Those were Army Blackhawks. They all had refueling probes so they must have been special ops Blackhawks.

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By: BeachBlonde 5/7/2025	Posted By: BeachBlonde - (Send PM) Member Since: 11/18/2022 Location: East Tennessee Total Posts: 22 Experience: Date Posted: 5/7/2025 9:24 AM
Anyone know why they are doing this? We had it last summer too. They vibrated the house last night around 11:30 ish going back. Fun to watch but too low!

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By: Mstaszew 5/7/2025	Posted By: Mstaszew - (Send PM) Member Since: 3/17/2014 Location: Triangle Area, NC Total Posts: 1900 Experience: Date Posted: 5/7/2025 9:36 AM
I saw them yesterday and the day before in SNH. The first one in the group was so low I couldn't see it as it flew past houses.

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By: Tim-OBX 5/7/2025	Posted By: Tim-OBX - (Send PM) Member Since: 6/2/2004 Location: Kitty Hawk Total Posts: 25870 Experience: Date Posted: 5/7/2025 10:27 AM
They must be training

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By: Bentmtn 5/7/2025	Posted By: Bentmtn - (Send PM) Member Since: 9/11/2020 Location: SW VA/Frisco Total Posts: 4589 Experience: Date Posted: 5/7/2025 10:34 AM
Here's another cool pic of them heading south towards Hatteras Village.

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By: Bill 5/7/2025	Posted By: Bill - (Send PM) Member Since: 7/28/2004 Location: Lewes, DE Total Posts: 6098 Experience: Date Posted: 5/7/2025 10:56 AM
The Sound of Freedom. All Black? Night Stalkers maybe?

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By: Stumpy 5/7/2025	Posted By: Stumpy - (Send PM) Member Since: 3/8/2005 Location: I'm right here Total Posts: 772 Experience: Date Posted: 5/7/2025 11:58 AM
Cool. When we're at Topsail the jarheads out of MCAS New River are constantly overhead in their CH-53s, AH-1s and Osprey's.

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By: Pelicansparadise 5/11/2025	Posted By: Pelicansparadise - (Send PM) Member Since: 2/26/2013 Location: Nags Head, NC Total Posts: 261 Experience: Date Posted: 5/11/2025 9:24 AM
I’ve been trying all week to get a picture of them, they’re so low it’s hard to drop everything and get outside to take the picture. They’re gone by the time I find my phone. It’s been fun to see them. I hope it continues this week.

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