I see the Airlift Northwest birds all the time. This morning I just happened to have my little Canon S110 camera nearby. The video is pretty horrid, hand-holding a ‘camera’ the size of a pack of cards set to 9x zoom will net just this sort of result.

The point? The noise. And the fact it’s a helicopter, something I’ve been fascinated by since my grandfather first took me to the Heliport (JEM) in Emeryville, CA. I think I was maybe 5 years old. I’m 99.99% certain the place is LONG gone. I can’t find any visual evidence of it anywhere, and the Lon/Lat data I get puts it out in the water. Oh well.

Here is that video anyway.