Chopper

Yesterday morning (hey, I’ve been busy) I saw, for what I think is the first time, an Apache attack helicopter above the skies of Gillingham.  I thought, is this UK riots 2011 redux transferred to Medway?  Last time, the sum total of destruction was a few bins set on fire and the front window of a bank vandalised – what passes for a normal weekend in this part of the world.  Were the authorities now giving extra heft to their dealings with petty hoodlums?  It seems no action has happened, which is only disappointing if one lives in a fantasy world.

I’m used to Chinooks with their double rota action overflying my house at 2-3am, which is a real racket.  But Apaches are another order altogether.  The preserve of the army, rather than the airforce, they are the most potent helicopter in the Western arsenal.  Put it this way, I wouldn’t want to bump into one in a dark alleyway.