They fly blacked out during training, but often have an IR non-flashing
light(s). A camcorder or digital camera might spot this.

In urban areas, you can see the outline of aircraft against the glow of
the sky with night vision.  I say a MH60 (or equiv) through night
vision gear during a red flag. The hub of the tail rotor was very
bright with NV.

I've been fiddling with one of those supercircuits ultra low light
CCDs.
http://www.supercircuits.com/index.asp?PageAction=VIEWPROD&ProdID=4166
One application is to focus on the NV screen. The other is to use the
CCD as a camera all by itself. It's is certainly as good as the cheap
night vision (gen 1)



Lumpy wrote:

miso@sushi.com wrote:

http://www.lazygranch.com/images/flytecom/www376389_03072006.gif
This 376 and a normal flight on the same map.

Maybe it was a slow day at the TPECR..

Unrelated. I just had a formation of two
UH-60 looking helo's fly over my home.
Generally FROM Luke AFB toward the northeast.
2245 hrs. NO nav lights on either ship.

Do they fly w/o nav lights as part of any kind
of routine mission over urban areas?


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