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Aero-News: Quote of the Day (09.11.17)


"The Firehawk has repeatedly proven its reliability and ruggedness. The stresses we place on the aircraft when we take on and then aggressively release 8,000 pounds of water multiple times a day are far more than what its military variant might do in normal operations at maximum gross weight. Like a good pick-up truck, we beat it up and it keeps coming back for more." Source: Thomas Ewald, assistant fire chief of L.A. County's Air and Wildland Division, in comments made after the County of Los Angeles awarded a contract to Sikorsky for two S-70i Black Hawk helicopters in a baseline configuration. Sikorsky is assembling the two new S-70i Black Hawk helicopters for delivery to L.A. County in December 2017.


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