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June 8, 2012
Why is there so much airplane noise on this bright sunny day?
Brooklynian
notsayin posted the following response:
Mystery solved. Twitter user @yankees368 somehow tracked the helicopter reg N666NY to one hovering 5,600 ft over Atlantic and Flatbush last night.
A little Googling connected the registrant's address to Sky River Helicopters in NJ, who confirmed to me it was their Robinson R44 (and possibly a second helo taking turns) doing an evening-long traffic study for the DOT.
I'm checking to confirm, but guessing it's arena-related. Sky River had no idea, but they were super nice and forthcoming.
We can take our tinfoil hats off (for now!) - and probably thank Bruce Ratner for the excitement.
And then this:
Confirmed. Baseline study of traffic conditions pre-arena opening for DOT.
Beats aerial drones or black helicopters any time though.
NoLandGrab: Given the absence of a coherent security plan for the very-close-to-major-avenues arena, let's maybe not give NYPD any ideas about aerial drones.
Posted by eric at June 8, 2012 12:19 PM