Surveillance planes spotted in the sky for days after West Baltimore rioting
Source: Washington Post
As Benjamin Shayne settled into his back yard to listen to the Orioles game on the radio Saturday night, he noticed a small plane looping low and tight over West Baltimore almost exactly above where rioting had erupted several days earlier, in the aftermath of the death of a black man, Freddie Gray, in police custody.
The plane appeared to be a small Cessna, but little else was clear. The sun had already set, making traditional visual surveillance difficult. So, perplexed, Shayne tweeted: Anyone know who has been flying the light plane in circles above the city for the last few nights?
That was 9:14 p.m. Seven minutes later came a startling reply. One of Shaynes nearly 600 followers tweeted back a screen shot of the Cessna 182Ts exact flight path and also the registered owner of the plane: NG Research, based in Bristow, Va.
The Internet, Shayne, 39, told his wife, is an amazing thing.
Read more: http://www.washingtonpost.com/business/technology/surveillance-planes-spotted-in-the-sky-for-days-after-west-baltimore-rioting/2015/05/05/c57c53b6-f352-11e4-84a6-6d7c67c50db0_story.html
Comrade Grumpy
(13,184 posts)whereisjustice
(2,941 posts)Every civil right we relinquish emboldens the corporatists to take two more.
840high
(17,196 posts)JDPriestly
(57,936 posts)George II
(67,782 posts)Anyone have any information about the so-called "NG Research" in Bristow VA?
Kelvin Mace
(17,469 posts)refuses to answer questions about it, and the Baltimore Police refer all questions to the FBI. That is the usual MO for the government when caught illegally spying.
George II
(67,782 posts)Kelvin Mace
(17,469 posts)is a counter-intelligence agency and their job is to catch foreign spies, so maybe they suspect the CIA of nefarious intent.
okaawhatever
(9,462 posts)whereisjustice
(2,941 posts)in heart of beltway bandit DoD contractors and lack of tail numbers, that anyone would think those two aircraft flying circles above a riot area for days on end wasn't a government operation.
AuntPatsy
(9,904 posts)James48
(4,437 posts)The airplane in question, N539MY, is a Cessna 182 now equipped with a Paravion Technologies, Inc. Infrared camera system, and a german made silencing muffler system.
It is physically parked inside a hanger at 10678 Aviation Lane, Manassas Virginia.
Anybody care to google that street address to see who owns the hanger there?
Hint: THREE LETTERS.
To see a sample of the Paravion Technologies capability to spot/record street level views, see this demo video: