Chinooks

[Peckhamgatecrasher]

Are we under siege? Two Chinooks and other choppers keep flying overhead.

Or is it an attack on Trump blimps?

[snowy]

They fly over every week - generally down the Thames from Chelsea heliport.

[TheArtfulDogger]

If they have their guns out then maybe they are preparing for trumps arrival next week 😂

[Peckhamgatecrasher]

Oh, how dreadfully prosaic.

I need some excitement in my life. I even dug out the wind-up radio.

[lilolil]

This was earlier

[mac4]

A couple of Chinooks with two Sikorsky helicopters as used by the President(painted white on top half) plus Met police helicopter and some others (Wildcats ?) heading back to Biggin Hill.

[VelvetBlueberry]

Could one of these things be what I witnessed the other night? It flew silent & remained static in the sky for a good 2 minutes before taking off. I would have dismissed it as a helicopter had it been making a buzzing sound, but it wasn't.

[seenbeen]

It is something to do with the POTUS' visit....they were returning to Biggin Hill from London Bridge at that time.

[tiddles]

God that bloody man - he is ruining the commemorations in portsmouth!!

Massive security screening out the public wanting to pay their respects to make way for a draft dodging

Bigot, mysogonist, all round scumbag.

[spider69]

He represents the USA, the USA that pulled our balls out of the fire in the first World War and also the second.

[tiddles]

Yes unfortunate choice and a disgrace to the true veterans..

[Springer]

?? What the f ?come on ?

[Springer]

?? What the f ?come on ? Xx

[keano77]

The US secret service tracking down all the Remainers who?ve bad-mouthed him on this forum?

[Sue]

spider69 Wrote:

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> He represents the USA, the USA that pulled our

> balls out of the fire in the first World War and

> also the second.

Belatedly, I believe.

[seenbeen]

Over 6,000 US soldiers died in the D-Day landings alone- 3x the number of British

[DoctorM]

at 12:15 yesterday (Friday 31st May) saw 8 helicopters in formation (1 scout, then 3 chinooks abreast, then 3 blackhawks abreast, then 1 solo scout) flew over south London heading northwards in the direction of Westminster. I was on the bus at the time. What I took to be a transport plane followed shortly afterwards headed in the same general direction.

[EPB]

WW1 - Germans tried to starve us out by attacking US supply ships in 1917, which is why they joined in.

WW2. - Germans bombing London, Liverpool etc in 1940 had no effect. Until, of course, Pearl Harbour in December 1941.

It could be argued that we have a lot to thank the Japanese for !!

[natty01295]

Trump visiting UK

[tomszekeres]

seenbeen Wrote:

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> Over 6,000 US soldiers died in the D-Day landings

> alone- 3x the number of British

In terms of lives lost, this was just one battle (albeit a symbolically important one). Britain and America lost about the same number of soldiers during the whole of WW2, roughly half a million, give or take. The Soviets sacrificed over 8 million soldiers fighting the Nazis. I don't see us rolling out the red carpet for Vladimir Putin any time soon?

I appreciate the need for Trump to be invited to Portsmouth as President of the USA, but he is a charmless, narcissistic draft dodger who will take the focus away from the remaining D-Day veterans and their families on what should be a very special commemoration. Which is a shame.

[Asset]

He'd probably have been supporting the other side if he'd been president then...

[peckman]

If there is a bigger c/^t than trump in this world im yet to think of one

[natty01295]

Trump's helicopters spotted looming over London ahead of UK state visit

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/trump-uk-state-visit-london-helicopters-chinook-marine-one-a8938861.html%3famp