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03-13-2008, 09:52 PM
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#31 | | Senior Member
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Originally Posted by DerAdlerIstGelandet  Huey is obviously the best of all time in my opinion. No other helicopter has been in service for as long as she has and she keeps on going. She was a joy to fly in as well.
The only reason I went with the Blackhawk is because it was my aircraft and because it is a better performer and better overall aircraft. | I was a design and structures engineer at Bell with a hand in the UH-1D/H, AH-1 and Jet Ranger. In my opinion the UH 60 is a better airframe for survivability, better flexibility..
The Huey is like a C-47 - it did everything you asked of it and well. My heart is with UH-1, my head is with UH-60 Blackhawk | 
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03-14-2008, 07:19 AM
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Originally Posted by drgondog I was a design and structures engineer at Bell with a hand in the UH-1D/H, AH-1 and Jet Ranger. In my opinion the UH 60 is a better airframe for survivability, better flexibility..
The Huey is like a C-47 - it did everything you asked of it and well. My heart is with UH-1, my head is with UH-60 Blackhawk | I agree. Basically they took what they learned from the Huey and made the Blackhawk from it.
And I agree my heart is with the UH-1 but my head is with the Hawk as well. Quote:
Originally Posted by Luis Miguel Almeida Thank you for explainig!
My choice is the Puma! | Good aircraft actually.
When I was deployed to Kosovo we raced a Swiss Super Puma from Pristina to our Camp. We just barely beat it. The Super Puma will actually out perform a Hawk but we were able to get the most our of our aircraft.
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03-14-2008, 10:53 AM
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#33 | | Senior Member
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Country:  | The RAF have a couple of UH-1s as well... a lot of people don't know that. 
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03-14-2008, 11:01 AM
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03-14-2008, 11:15 AM
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#35 | | Senior Member
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Country: | The RAF is using the 101 merlin is it any good ?. I left the RAF before it went into servive.
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03-14-2008, 11:33 AM
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Country: | I've heard it's performance is outstanding. One of the few helicopters that haven't caused a lot of trouble upon their introduction.
__________________ "When you go home tomorrow, don't expect anyone to know what you have been through. Even if they did know, most people probably wouldn't care anyway. Some of you may get the medals you deserve, many more of you will not. But remember this, all of you are now members of the front-line club, and that is the most exclusive club in the world." - Lt. Col. Matthew Maer CO 1st Battalion, the Princess of Wale's Royal Regiment. Camp Abu Naji, Oct. 2004 To those in that club. | |
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03-17-2008, 07:04 PM
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Country:  | I don´t know about RAF EH -101, but the Portuguese Merlin has 50% of their helis grounded, because of mechanical and software problems. one even crashed against the runway from 3 meters high, during a medevac injuring a doctor in the spine.
In fact the air force is considering to put the old SA 330 Puma back in operation!! | |
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