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(They are not necessarily unmarked--they may have dark markings that blend in with their dark surface.)
Originally posted by Tom Bedlam
They look like Bell 210's on the You Tube video, which is a UH1 frame ("Huey") that's been civilianized.
The 210 is dirt common. The military still uses some UH1 variants but they're rigged out differently than this.
Originally posted by NGC2736
Your tax dollars at work. Now ask yourself this, why would the government need to hide the markings of such craft? What could they be involved in that they would not want anyone to be able to trace back and prove against them?
It can't be civilian craft, they would catch hell for hiding the markings.
And it isn't DEA or such, because they would have no need to do that to hide from drug runners, because drug runners would assume any aircraft hostile.
So that only leaves a few agencies that want to remain 'unnamed'. And that no one can report as having seen.
Originally posted by misterfantastic
who knows what they really do...
did everyone else catch the small black ufo zip across the screen at the end
Originally posted by dave_54
Something from the 205/212 series. The video was too poor to identify the specific model. At one spot I saw what could have been the N number or other identifier, but too blurry to make it out. I did see the wirecutters on the nose in a few frames.
I didn't think regular military still used that airframe. The Blackhawk series is the standard now. National Guard units still do, and of course many in private usage. That Bell series is still the main workhorse of the civilian medium helicopter market.
And they are all turbine engines.
Originally posted by TheStev
Isn't the point that the markings have to be clear anyway? What's the point of having markings if they're intentionally obscured? Whether there are dark markings, or no markings, it's basically the same thing.