Two Blackhawk helicopters requested by U.S. Customs Border and Protection to patrol along the Rio Grande from Laredo to Brownsville are now in South Texas.
Blackhawk Helicopters Arrive
LAURA B. MARTINEZ | STAFF WRITER, The Monitor (Texas)
Fri, 06/12/2015 - 7:37pm
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Topics: Texas Hildalgo County McAllen
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They are both cargo helicopters filling the exact same role, and expected to operate under friendly skies. Their entire reason for existence is to move cargo from point A to point B; so the fact that a Blackhawk will move more cargo further in a helicopter of essentially the same size class is one of, if not the, main reasons it replaced the Huey.
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Maybe try searching s70 and see if there's any civilian places that have flights under that. You almost definitely aren't getting in a military 60 in a cool flight profile unless you're in the military or related to it. Our small airport had huey rides a few year ago for the aviation museum.
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freefan. •. Military was doing diving drills on the River side of the boat lock. They’ve been doing these recently on the River, blackhawk gets down low and a military trainee jumps out and swims to military boat. At least that what it looks like is happening during these training sessions.
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Guy above had it right that Blackhawks have more stations because well..there's a shitload of them. That being said, that can lead to problems getting flight hours depending on your unit. There's something like 450 chinook pilots in all of the army, meaning you'll get a lot of work. Blackhawks typically have more fun doing assaults and chinooks ...
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