formation flying

Monday, November 15, 2004, at 09:40AM

By Eric Richardson

Driving down Fig an hour or so ago I saw a large formation of helicopters heading east to west. Some chopper I didn't recognize in front, then five or six LAPD birds, and finally five or six Sherrifs department choppers (which I don't think I've seen before). I'm suspecting it was for filming; there's something going on over on the other side of downtown involving tanks and gunfire and such (or at least that's what was billed in the filming announcement), so it might well be that.

Eric Richardson lives in Atlanta, Georgia, where he works on payments infrastructure for Cash App.

Past lives involved streaming audio for Southern California Public Radio, running a hyperlocal news site for Downtown Los Angeles, working on custom mapping code, and writing Perl at the Jet Propulsion Labratory.

Previously on this date...

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