Posted on 07/19/2017 11:08:51 PM PDT by lefty-lie-spy
(WASHINGTON, D.C.) – The U.S. Department of Energy’s National Nuclear Security Administration’s (DOE/NNSA) will conduct a low-altitude helicopter flight over portions of the Arlington, Va., area July 22 to measure naturally occurring background radiation.
Officials from NNSA announced that the radiation assessment will cover approximately three square miles. A twin-engine Bell 412 helicopter, operated by the Remote Sensing Laboratory Aerial Measuring System from Joint Base Andrews, will be equipped with radiation sensing technology.
The helicopter will fly in a grid pattern over the area at 150 feet (or higher) above the ground surface, at a speed of approximately 80 miles per hour. Flyovers will occur only during daylight hours and are estimated to take about three hours to complete.
The measurement of naturally occurring radiation to establish baseline levels is a normal part of security and emergency preparedness. NNSA is making the public aware of the upcoming flights so that citizens who see the low-flying aircraft are not alarmed.
For video of similar flights AMS has made in the past, see here and here.
Am attempting to remember if a P-38 was at the museum but am having a senior moment
Think maybe saw some P-38s on Yorktown in Charlestown, SC back around 2000
These were a couple of really beautiful birds that came for some temporary duty (show script).
Gleaming polished aluminum skin (I am guessing it was aluminum).
My grandfather was working at an airbase when a Lockheed test pilot took a random P-38 and showed what it could do. The claim was there was something wrong with the plane and they were crashing. He had them pick the plane and did all kinds of stunts on one engine. My grandfather said everybody stopped to watch this guy fly.
nice
Sure, totally believable. /s
Your Grandfather from your description sounds like a Man’s Man. Your being proud is justified
He worked on all kinds of cool stuff. I bear his last name but he was actually a step-grandad. Nonetheless, liked the old boy and he was always Grampa to me (my other one had died when I was real young).
He worked some crazy construction projects - dams, ICBM silos. Wow.
He stepped in and took care of my grandmother and aunts and uncles (when they were young) and my dad.
Sending bbq grills into orbit is frowned upon.
Nnsa might take pictures and keep them for personal use, so be careful.
You never know with these guys.
Hopefully.
Eyes dotted ... ‘t’s, fingers and toes crossed ... teeth grinding on bones of last field day ... prayers all is well with you and yours!!!
I have a bunch of smoke detectors piled up - I can’t just throw them away, I’m supposed to take them to the “Haz Waste Day” - but of course every year I forget. (With a big pile of flurescent tubes sitting nearby). I hope I don’t get a SWAT team at my door.
I was at a site that did testing of radiation detection systems. I kept seeing a guy get into his own car with a DIXIE cup and drive around, then go back into the building, and repeat all day long.
I finally had to ask what he was up to. (He’s got the Dixie cup on the dash of this Honda Civic, street clothes, etc.)
“Oh - I’m just calibrating the detection levels of the radiation sensors.”
Obviously those sensors can detect a VERY low dose.
Another reason to Congress im DC.....
It’s really a “google” helicopter”.
Look for one of these contraptions under the helicopter
https://www.google.com/streetview/images/understand/device-car.jpg
That helicopter was making passes in Cape May County,NJ near Ocean City yesterday around 9:30 am.
Sneaking a device that emits radiation via truck would be difficult due to the monitors mounted all around the nation.
It would be far easier to fly such a device over the target area and detonate.....you get a far larger dispersal pattern and, depending on the device, a more effective EMP blast.
There are not enough monitors at small airports currently.
It is critical they find it before it goes critical.
I wonder how they accounted for background radiation in second-hand smoke “studies”.
According to the surgeon general, there is no safe level of cigarette smoke, however, there is apparently a safe level of radiation exposure.
Someone nuking Fedland?
We couldn’t be that lucky.
“The helicopter will fly in a grid pattern over the area at 150 feet (or higher) above the ground surface, at a speed of approximately 80 miles per hour.”
Thank goodness guns aren’t allowed in Washington DC.
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