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[Lush Rimshot]

[John Szalay]

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AC-130

We also saw one doing rings around the Cape during Shuttle launches.
providing security along with the silver hueys flying low, working the area
bays beaches and waterways.

Was there anything going on in the area ? any event ?
or was there any undue police presence anywhere ?

[Propwash Bucket]

Nope. Nada. No Presidents, no Senators, no Rolling Stones, no Antomov
AN-124 flying out of Bush Interdimensional (although we see it from time to
time-it's great for ferrying relatively large and heavy oil drilling gear).
Neither the local TV news, nor local radio, nor the Houston Comical
(Chronicle) made any mention of the hubbub. Just an unusual occurrence of
the most lethal gunship aloft, complete with IR and synthetic radars and
engine heat suppressors, circling not very far from the second busiest port
in America. Go figure...

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> We also saw one doing rings around the Cape during Shuttle launches.
> providing security along with the silver hueys flying low, working the
> area
> bays beaches and waterways.
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> Was there anything going on in the area ? any event ?
> or was there any undue police presence anywhere ?

[John Szalay]

"Propwash Bucket" > wrote in
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> an unusual occurrence of the most lethal gunship aloft, complete with
> IR and synthetic radars and engine heat suppressors, circling not very
> far from the second busiest port in America. Go figure...
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That alone may be the reason, a busy seaport,

just the thought or hint of a threat of a small boat running loose
among the shipping could have brought a heightened state of readiness.

If you would have looked, there probably was a larger number of CG
small craft patrol boats as well..in the water ways..

There may have been not even a threat, may have been an excercise..