Originally Posted by
Dundiggin'
Gnd..... If the there is not enough room for the Crewman to move safely about the cabin then how can he do his job? I'm exasperated by your response!!
But there is. The seats are removable. The number of times I've ever seen a personnel transport and external load operation combined is one ... though I imagine in some places it is more common. FWIW, if take all of the seats out of the Black Hawk, you can fit more people into it.
Doing so of course removes the crash worthy seating feature, and it sure looks more like the old Viet Nam Huey set up, but I know of at least one op where that was done. I also know of one country where it
was a common practice: Colombia (but that's a few years back).