BY the end of the week, the surveillance helicopters had vanished, and the beaches, the island's best and least expensive family attraction of all, sprang back to life.

Paramilitary units in armored vehicles blocked off several quarters while the police searched cars stopped at checkpoints and surveillance helicopters hovered, witnesses reported.

Bo 105M : With its army designation "VBH" (Verbindungshubschrauber; 'liaison chopper'), is a light transport and surveillance helicopter.

Stuyvesant needs to bring a surveillance helicopter too.

Reconnaissance and surveillance helicopters - HAL Dhruv will replace the existing fleet of Cheetah and Chetak helicopters.

On the other, it is a knowing symbol of the apartheid era, when surveillance helicopters were known among blacks as "eyes of the government."

Finally, for the opening of a solo show in 2004, he arranged for a surveillance helicopter to hover over the gallery, strafing it with searchlights.

But Oslo police's own contingency plans opened for several years to allow sharpshooters firing from the police's own surveillance helicopter.

"That's a chopper you hear," he said, about a hovering British surveillance helicopter.