Elvis The Chopper And Friends

[Bass Junky]

Saturday afternoon and Sunday morning, Elvis the water bomber flew accross the Melbourne skys.

I remember hearing a dull thud thud thud and went outside to investigate.

I know it was a chopper, and thought I'd just see the copper chopper landing in a park or something.

To my delight, here comes Elvis!

He's freaking HOOOOGE.

He had three other mates flying about 300 yards behind him too. Looked like a rescue chopper, media chopper and an unidentified chopper.

Was a pretty cool site. I think I remember my son and I yelling encouragements from my balcony.

Anywho, they flew back over (only two this time) on Sunday going the other way. Looked like they were coming from Gippsland way.

Anywho, Elvis is like 3 times the size of a normal chopper. Pretty huge device.

Anyone else see him?

BASS OUT

[West]

yeah i did, last week though, i saw him flew pass St Kilda, he was flying really low too.

[Bec]

I saw him last weekend too - he flew over Knox City.

Its true - he is massive!!!

[Mavric]

sweet as he is one serious machine....

good to have him back i think the fire fighters will be glad to see him fly over top as well....

[Jamezilla]

Only more impressive when seen carrying a bus full of bad actors.

[KamikazeR33]

Only more impressive when seen carrying a bus full of bad actors.

from the Film Actors Guild?

[crack]

hopefully the pilot doesn't clip anymore trees with the rotors. $ 1 million dollars to fix. ouch.

[blackrex]

My son and I saw the convoy go over on Saturday as well.

I actually went for a flight in Elvis at the start of the year, as they had it based out of Lilydale Airport (next door to my farm) for a while, They where doing some check flights and I managed to blag my way on board for one. damn things are noisy inside, the real funky bit is that the pilot can turn his seat around and fly looking through the cargo area (so that when they are being a crane they can see the load and the landing point)

[foznice]

Tharaka and I saw him last night when we were going to the general meeting.. Didn't really seem that big, but we didn't pay huge amounts of notice to him either...

I'm trying to remember which movie it was from now James.... Swordfish??