Helicopters

Loud copter-like craft rumble over Boston

By adamg - 9/16/24 - 12:06 pm

Erikk Hokenson shows us the two Osprey VTOL thingees that flew over the inner harbor this morning. Read more.

West End man charged with aiming laser beam at helicopter trying to land at Mass. General

By adamg - 5/13/24 - 9:30 pm

A man who lives on the fourth floor of a Martha Road apartment building was arrested today on charges he aimed a green laser pointer at a Coast Guard helicopter whose pilot was trying to land at the neighboring Massachusetts General Hospital last September. Read more.

Back Bay gets its annual nuclear checkup from the air

By adamg - 4/13/24 - 5:29 pm

Federal radiation-monitoring helicopter over Back Bay

Patrick spotted the Nuclear Emergency Support Team's radiation-sensing helicopter over Boylston Street today, doing the annual pre-Marathon check of background-radiation levels, just in case.

Pre-emptive helicopter alert along the Marathon route

By adamg - 4/9/24 - 12:45 pm

Boston will get its annual pre-Marathon background nuclear radiation check Thursday through Monday, s o that's why you'll see (and hear) a blue and white copter flying loud and low over downtown and the Marathon route and downtown Boston - like 150 feet up at 80 m.p.h.

Citizen complaint of the day: That stupid copter has doubled back to Roslindale, get it outaaa heah!

By adamg - 11/12/23 - 2:17 pm

Copter over Northeast Corridor tracks in Roslindale

It only seems like the copter's gotten tangled in the wires along Rowe Street.

A fed-up citizen filed a 311 complaint this morning about that helicopter Amtrak hired to survey the power lines along the Northeast Corridor, which had been slowly moving north, but which is now hovering low over Roslindale again, specifically, Rowe Street: Read more.

Yes, four of those weird helicopters just flew over Boston

By adamg - 8/8/22 - 11:25 am

Aegon Targaryen VI videoed the flight of the V-22 Ospreys down and over the Charles shortly after 11 a.m. Read more.

Blackhawks over Boston

By adamg - 6/6/22 - 12:06 pm

Neil captured military helicopters doing a practice run over Boston this morning. Read more.

A capitol copter

By adamg - 5/14/22 - 9:39 pm

Cargo copter moving things to the McCormack Building

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Hank Scorpio who photographed or videoed the cargo copter lifting generator components from Boston Common to the top of the McCormack State Office Building today. Read more.

Some copter excitement coming to Beacon Hill tomorrow

By adamg - 5/13/22 - 12:32 pm

It's no dinosaur delivery, but a helicopter is scheduled to bring a new generator to the McCormack State Office Building sometime between 7 a.m. and 6 p.m. on Saturday. Read more.

Close copter ops downtown

By adamg - 4/16/22 - 10:43 pm

Sarah Smith got a good, close look at the underside of a helicopter over the Old State House today. She says State Street was closed and that it might have been Life Flight doing some pre-Marathon practice runs.

Earlier:
Checking R2-D2 for background radiation.

Checking R2-D2 for background radiation

By adamg - 4/13/22 - 10:04 pm

Nuclear-sensing helicopter near the R2-D2 building in the Back Bay

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Mark Clancy scored a great shot of the National Nuclear Security Administration helicopter today as it flew over part of the Marathon route to take in background radiation levels just in case something happens where that might become important to know.

The copter crew does this every year in the days before the race.

That's a lot of helicopters

By adamg - 10/28/21 - 3:39 pm

David Mickley watched a squadron of SEALs in copters fly along the Charles today: Read more.

Southern parts of Boston not being invaded; it just sounds like it

By adamg - 10/19/21 - 9:01 pm

From West Roxbury to Mattapan to Dorchester, people were reporting helicopters tonight, and not just your basic news copters, but big-ass, low-flying behemoths that rattled windows and annoyed the more skittish pets.Read more.

Time for annual pre-Marathon tradition: The measuring of the radiation levels

By adamg - 10/8/21 - 10:29 am

An Energy Department helicopter is flying along the route of the Monday Marathon today. As they do every year a few days before the Boston Marathon route, the crew is recording background radiation levels so they have a baseline to compare to should the worst happen.

Here it is in action: Read more.

On a day of helicopters, one is just hovering over Cambridge, being annoying

By adamg - 9/11/21 - 11:16 pm

All day long, reports came pouring into Boston Helicopter Central, OK, our Twitter feed, about helicopters overhead: There were helicopters over Boston Harbor for the USS Constitution turnaround, helicopters over I-93 for the procession for Sgt. Johanny Rosario Pichardo to Lawrence.

And then there was the helicopter that just stayed in place, for hours, over Cambridge. Read more.

Citizen complaint of the day: There's loud, there's really loud and then there's frickin' helicopter-tours loud

By adamg - 4/24/21 - 10:42 am

An irritated citizen in the Back Bay files a 311 complaint about a helicopter, based in Norwood, whose pilot gives well off tourists tours of Boston - tourists who might be nearsighted given how close to the ground it flies - and sometimes as early as 5:30 a.m.: Read more.

The crew also flew low and loud along Mass. Ave. in Cambridge and Central Square.

Expect even more helicopters and sirens than usual this week

By adamg - 11/5/18 - 11:42 am

Mass. EMA and State Police report troopers, local police and the National Guard will be doing training exercises this week in locations that will include Boston Harbor and Gillette Stadium.