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Holding pattern on copter flight plan makes more buzz

Quick ReadBuzz sure to continue over high-flying Hamptons weekends

A helicopter arrives at the East Hampton Town

Photo credit: Gordon M. Grant | A helicopter arrives at the East Hampton Town Airport in Wainscott. (Oct. 14, 2007)

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It's as key to Hamptons-weekend extravagance as Diva vodka martinis and Lamborghini golf carts: The Friday-afternoon helicopter ride east.

Wasting half the cocktail hour in LIE backups? Getting stuck on Route 27 behind a pokey landscaper's truck? Only a schlub would suffer indignities like those.

But those choppers all have rotors, and those rotors all make noise. And the buzz-buzz-buzzing...

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