thewayneiac: O.K. Since this is my favorite episode, I'd better at least put in an appearance to comment on it.
UrsusArctos: Welcome back, Wayne! In a side comment, this is another one of those overhead shots of helicopters that seems fairly common in NGE, just like the one at the beginning of Episode 08 and in the run-up to Operation Yashima. This helicopter, unlike Episode 08's "MiG-55D" is completely real: it's a CH-53E Super Stallion. The MH-53 Sea Dragon variant serves with the JMSDF to this day (hard to if it's the CH-53 or MH-53 here; anyway it doesn't matter for a fictional organization working in Japan in a fictional version of 2015).
