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Old 7th Apr 2021, 19:07
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MikeNYC
 
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Originally Posted by havick
Hope they also work out they’re going to need about 400lbs of ballast up front to stay in CoG with full fuel. Just ask the Babcock pilots operating them north of Australia.
Easy fix with a 200lb EO/IR system hanging off the nose.

The bigger question is why would NYPD need a machine of this class, and is it worth switching out of newly all-Bell fleet? Didn't Bell give NYPD a great deal on the 429's to take the old AW119's off their hands?
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