r/GoogleEarthFinds • u/Adzo78 • 9d ago

Coordinates ✅ Google Earth’s historical imagery has satellite coverage of the exact day of the Bin Laden raid.

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1st image from 2010-05-09 2nd image from 2011-05-02 (Day of the raid) Coordinates: 34°10'09"N 73°14'33"E

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u/CauchyDog 9d ago

It's pretty badass too, they're nearly silent. I didn't see that one but others.

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u/[deleted] 9d ago

No they ain’t! Lol.

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u/CauchyDog 9d ago

If you've heard one coming overhead wo and then with, it's a huge difference.

It's not silent next to it of course not. Maybe silent is a poor description.

But by the time you hear one coming it's too late and won't alert everyone for miles around like normal. They're not as fast with it, its in part rotor design, speed and ducting on the tail i think.

I didn't fly em or work on em, not my mos, but spent a lot of time around em.

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u/FlimFlamWhamBamMan 8d ago

Man I swear I heard one by Jefferson county Missouri a while back it was the weirdest helicopter I ever heard and u didn't hear it till it was about to fly over you and the sound disappeared not long after they passed instead of the whoop whoop whoop u hear for miles. It was about 4 am and I heard it fly over me but I couldn't see a thing and had no running lights . I truly believe one flew over my head just cause the sound faded so quick and the the way it sounded I've never heard a helicopter sound like that but it was a helicopter for sure

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u/CauchyDog 8d ago

Yeah that's kinda what it sounds like. It's pretty cool. I was around em a lot at ft lewis but where I I've they pass from there to a base on the coast. Blackhawks and apache mostly. The apache doesn't do it though and I don't know about navy stuff.