Alright, I may be gently losing my mind but I have witnessed something fairly bizarre today and was curious to know if anyone had any thoughts on it.
I was working on night shift Thursday night and had not been home for very long today when I was rudely disturbed by a very odd thing. I was relaxing at home, down Hackney Wick way, when there came a thunderous noise over the top of my apartment block.
Being a curious soul, I wanted to find out what was disturbing my reverie so I went onto my balcony just as the building I was in was buzzed at low level by two dirty great Chinook helicopters flying in formation. Honestly, they were so low that I could see one of the crew members in the back of one of the beast machines in all his jumpsuit and flight helmet finery!
What was bizarre also was that I could see him because the back door of his craft was down. Now I am not an expert in aircraft but I am pretty sure that the doors would usually need to be closed in order to effectively get around!
Not only were they flying EXTREMELY low in the east London area at two in the afternoon but they were also jinking side to side rather than flying in a straight path. Truly a compelling spectacle….
This was all very odd but kind of fun in a ‘Boy’s-Own-adventure-pretending-to-be-Action-Man’ kind of way, but then they went and did something I was really not expecting. They turned westward and flew at tree top level into the boundary of the eastern side of Victoria Park whereupon they both, still in formation, dropped into the park itself. They were only there for about 30 seconds to a minute at best when they took off again, turned north, and flew off in formation. They were still going at low level, mind you.
Now, I spent a short time looking around the interweb to see if there was any explanation for this intriguing display and I have noticed that, although there was nothing about covert ops going on in the east end today, there are a lot of people who have noticed more and more the regular exhibition in London of Chinooks flying in formation (albeit not as bloody low!).
I have also noticed these sinister looking things buzzing across the London skyline, usually east to west along the river path, but I am now really curious to know why the general E3 area is now being used for military manoeuvres.
