Morrow Aviation Assets

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Originally Posted by stormlion1

Prime Base itself only having a small number of aircraft. Its C+C, not an airbase.

I agree with this - I actually have a "national aviation command" under the command of the national command, but I don't have it collocated.

Originally Posted by stormlion1

The various teams themselves maybe one in a dozen has a helicopter for use and never an aircraft as landing strips will be few and far between.

How many teams do you have? If you have a hundred teams then having 16 part-time helicopter pilots is difficult, if you have a thousand teams then having 166 is almost absurd! There are not that many helicopter pilots out there, expecting to draw a bunch of them into the Project (assuming they would even qualify) is a bit of a stretch, as is training them up from scratch.

Oh, and there are a ton of small airplanes (bush planes) that can land just about anywhere flatish.

Originally Posted by stormlion1

Say Prime Base and the Regional Hubs have maybe five Blackhawks and one or two private jets each.

So perhaps 35 Blackhawks? And how do you figure jets? With fusion power, a propeller airplane or helicopter can stay aloft as long as you can keep someone conscious at the controls, jets require massive amounts of perishable, volatile fuel that the Project could not realistically anticipate replenishing. And why does the Project even need jets?

Originally Posted by stormlion1

The Supply Hubs have a dozen C-130's (For supply airdrops), another dozens Blackhawks (for when dropping it out of an airplane cannot happen or to transport MARS teams), and maybe two dozen Little Birds (For Air Support and scouting) and space for scavenged aircraft the project might find and reuse five years after the nukes drop.. And several teams across the US are equipped with Little Birds.

Now I'm confused - you said "Regional Hubs have maybe five Blackhawks" and now you say "The Supply Hubs have ... another dozens Blackhawks" - which is it?