Just in case some do not know, typically a helicopter will have "Nav lights" which are Red on the port side and green on the starboard, these help other aircrews to understand which way the aircraft is moving. "Position lights"
It will also have a landing light, pretty much a spotlight which illuminates the area in front of the aircraft to aid landing.
It will also have a tail light, or "position light". This with the nav lights helps the aircrew understand the movement of other helo's in a 3d space.
It will also have and anti collision strobe, sometimes mounted on the tail or sometimes underneath, this will be either red or white (occasionally both, half and half) and "flash" or "strobe" in a repeated timed pattern. This pattern doesn't change in timing. Remember this is helicopter, airliners will have wing tip strobes and in other places which will go out of pattern.
I saw a lot of video's of the LV shooting, and I'm certain we are not seeing an anti collision strobe, what you see here are muzzle flashes from weapons imo.
There was a video going around a few years ago where someone had taken a look at the helicopter movements around the area from some sort of radar footage.
There were several interesting things that were not normal, but the big one was a "helicopter" on radar (because it moved like one, hovered, etc.) that had a call sign of a commercial jet (Southwest, I think). So, it came in from the east, sporting the call sign of a commercial jet, and then hovered right around the back of the Mandalay Bay/Luxor, and then the call sign shut off.
Yes I saw some of them video's on the Southwest aircraft.
Which would have to mean that someone in ATC was in on it, the helicopter(s) would have normally had to squawk a 4 digit number on the transponder being inside controlled airspace!
Yep…avionics engineer here; concur with all except one change. Strobes always white, the red flashing light that’s seen (always on bottom) rotates to appear as a flash. The red rotating light is called a “Beacon” light. Everything else spot-on. 👍🏽 Updooted to ‘17’ wooot.
Hi, I worded it slightly like that as a couple of aircraft I flew had a split red/white, albeit in a different country to the USA. I tried to cover most bases.
I remember watching quite a few videos from a guy who was heavily invested in trying to work out what exactly had gone on in the LV shooting, and one video (not this one) clearly had a couple of helicopters that were lights out and muzzle flashes coming from them. Some where trying to argue that it was the anti col but clearly it wasn't. Thanks for the input.
Just in case some do not know, typically a helicopter will have "Nav lights" which are Red on the port side and green on the starboard, these help other aircrews to understand which way the aircraft is moving. "Position lights"
It will also have a landing light, pretty much a spotlight which illuminates the area in front of the aircraft to aid landing.
It will also have a tail light, or "position light". This with the nav lights helps the aircrew understand the movement of other helo's in a 3d space.
It will also have and anti collision strobe, sometimes mounted on the tail or sometimes underneath, this will be either red or white (occasionally both, half and half) and "flash" or "strobe" in a repeated timed pattern. This pattern doesn't change in timing. Remember this is helicopter, airliners will have wing tip strobes and in other places which will go out of pattern.
I saw a lot of video's of the LV shooting, and I'm certain we are not seeing an anti collision strobe, what you see here are muzzle flashes from weapons imo.
There was a video going around a few years ago where someone had taken a look at the helicopter movements around the area from some sort of radar footage.
There were several interesting things that were not normal, but the big one was a "helicopter" on radar (because it moved like one, hovered, etc.) that had a call sign of a commercial jet (Southwest, I think). So, it came in from the east, sporting the call sign of a commercial jet, and then hovered right around the back of the Mandalay Bay/Luxor, and then the call sign shut off.
That does not happen without fuckery.
Yes I saw some of them video's on the Southwest aircraft.
Which would have to mean that someone in ATC was in on it, the helicopter(s) would have normally had to squawk a 4 digit number on the transponder being inside controlled airspace!
Yep…avionics engineer here; concur with all except one change. Strobes always white, the red flashing light that’s seen (always on bottom) rotates to appear as a flash. The red rotating light is called a “Beacon” light. Everything else spot-on. 👍🏽 Updooted to ‘17’ wooot.
Hi, I worded it slightly like that as a couple of aircraft I flew had a split red/white, albeit in a different country to the USA. I tried to cover most bases.
I remember watching quite a few videos from a guy who was heavily invested in trying to work out what exactly had gone on in the LV shooting, and one video (not this one) clearly had a couple of helicopters that were lights out and muzzle flashes coming from them. Some where trying to argue that it was the anti col but clearly it wasn't. Thanks for the input.
Wow! Would love to see more leaked vids. You did a perfect job actually 👍🏽
Was a door gunner for a time in the Navy before going EOD. I can tell you from experience, those are muzzle flashes.
Why the pilot(s) didn't turn off those running lights and go completely dark is beyond me, unless it wasn't us.
I have a very hard time believing out own military would open fire like that on innocent American civilians.
The FBI, ATF, DHS, or Clowns, on the other hand...
Al-Waleed, or +++ as Q puts it