A Boeing Vertol helicopter over Belgium?

Post by **sn26567** » 29 Jul 2005, 12:37

As I was in my garden yesterday morning and the day before, I have first heard a strange (well-known to me) noise, and then I saw the "thing": a helicopter with two horizontal propellers.

It was rather far away, but I recognised the noise and the sight: a Boeing Vertol (or something very similar), flying from Brussels above the E411 motorway towards Namur. This type of helicopter was used by Sabena in 1958 to bring visitors from Paris to the Expo 58 in Brussels.

Any idea if it was really a Vertol and what it was doing there?

BBKing · Post by **BBKing** » 29 Jul 2005, 13:19

It might have been a Chinook of the Dutch Air Force or the Royal Air Force ....

Could be in Belgium for some exercises ...

Rago · Post by **Rago** » 29 Jul 2005, 17:24

I saw it in the Waterloo region >>> UK Chinook!