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Big blue & white chopper over Bunbury
Posted: Mon Mar 01, 2010 3:56 pm
by Bonez
Was just sitting out the back when quite a large chopper flew over, about 500ft in the air. Very noisy too.
The under belly of it was completely white, and the side of it was a lightish blue with an even lighter blue logo of some kind on the tail.
Anyone got any idea who this would belong to? It was almost as big as Polair 61 but nowhere near as noisy, and much less crap hanging off it
Re: Big blue & white chopper over Bunbury
Posted: Mon Mar 01, 2010 3:59 pm
by Bonez
Ahh... I just stumbled across it. This is it for sure:
http://www.airliners.net/photo/Cougar-H ... 8a4a6126fb
Bit bigger than Polair 61 on second thoughts
Re: Big blue & white chopper over Bunbury
Posted: Mon Mar 01, 2010 8:12 pm
by Blinky
Here's another view of it.
http://tiny.cc/yjHEt
Re: Big blue & white chopper over Bunbury
Posted: Mon Mar 01, 2010 8:33 pm
by written_ficton
Cougar!
Re: Big blue & white chopper over Bunbury
Posted: Tue Mar 02, 2010 1:16 am
by Bonez
Wow, thanks for the info Blinky. Seems that it is a very integral part of FESA in the SW. I live in Dalyellup about 1km from the beach (Google maps..!!) and it looked like it was flying from Busselton to somewhere north east, like Harvey. It certainly came across me in a diaganol NE direction
Cheers
Bonez
Re: Big blue & white chopper over Bunbury
Posted: Tue Mar 02, 2010 8:47 am
by scanner81
It flew up for the munster/wattleup fire. Seen it heading north over mandurah
Re: Big blue & white chopper over Bunbury
Posted: Tue Mar 02, 2010 3:02 pm
by Nafenn
Heard it on perth radar yesterday afternoon, was transiting up the coast to perth, and decided to help out at the fire.
Re: Big blue & white chopper over Bunbury
Posted: Tue Mar 02, 2010 7:12 pm
by TrainFreak
I saw the helitacs including 682 which is the one based down South, land at Perth Airport on the night of the fire on Russell Road. Does anyone know if she is going to stay at Perth or fly back down South