A Helicopter Just Flew By My Window....Again

[JCL]

And it was loud. It came back for a few more passes, so I snapped some shots from the balcony. It was just below, level with, and just above our 20th story apartment. The next building is visible in one of the shots. It was pretty close in.

Nikon D70, Nikon 80-200 ED F2.8 handheld. It was a very grey day, not much light. It came down over the water, made several more passes, and then did some banked turns. Interesting to watch.

I looked it up to confirm, and as suspected it was a CH124 Sea King, originally an amphibious Sikorsky S61. 48 years old, and starting to look it. Many are equipped for ASW, and this one was making low passes over a stretch of the Vancouver harbour next to the Olympic Athlete's Village, presumably a training drill (unless someone suspects that terrorist submarines are coming to get the Paralympians who are just now arriving on site)