Page 31 - Port of Baltimore Jan/Feb 2011

W hen it comes to being all
that you can be, the Army
knows it can call on the Port
of Baltimore.
Fourteen brand-new Chinook
helicopters, each weighing nearly 30,000
pounds with blades spanning 60 feet,
flew into the Mid-Atlantic Terminal on the
Dundalk Marine Terminal in October. Eight
landed on one day and six on another,
followed shortly thereafter by a shipment
of simulators and supply parts that arrived
by truck.
After they settled onto the terminal
in precise formation, the big birds had
their blades disassembled and then were
loaded by crane onto a military sealift
vessel, the USNS Mendonca, which ferried
them to Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, to replace
older helicopters. >>>
Bird’s-Eye
Military Helicopters Fly
Into Baltimore, Ship Out
To Pearl Harbor
BY NANCY MENEFEE JACKSON
Photography By Bill McAllen
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