There's a lot of air traffic

fair point I never considered, Sauron genuinely would have seen them coming from miles away

It’s why the distraction at The Black Gate was so necessary, Sauron was fully distracted by how pretty Aragorn and Legolas were
- Hey, don't be leaving my boy Gimli out like that. Dude's damn hot.
also the eagles are strong sentient beings that could be corrupted/tempted to take it yada yada
- The eagles are the servants (and creations) of Manwë, King of the Valar, who is far more powerful than Sauron. They can see through all matter. They would not be corrupted.

Would have been cool to see the giant eagles fight those things tho.

Would have been cool to see the giant eagles fight those things tho.
I hope you mean "fight those things more"? If not, you are in need of a rewatch.
- I forget details like that. I meant have the eagles fly the ring to Mt Doom and drop it in while Frodo and the boys chill in the shire, easy peasy.

For some odd reason I trust the military helicopters simply because you have to have a fury of love in your heart somewhere that no one can fully control to understand how to fly them into war and peace.

I am sure they have quite good timing too.

I believe you'll love to read this:
Cameron addresses the obvious: “we could’ve run a CG helicopter under the freeway overpass, but it was so much more fun to do the real thing.” In other words: it’s not that alternatives to flying an actual helicopter under an overpass weren’t possible, it’s just that those alternatives were for cowards.
The stunt was performed by Charles A. “Chuck” Tamburro, a veteran stunt pilot as well as an actual, you know, veteran (Tamburro learned to fly helicopters in Vietnam). You might not know his name, but you’ve almost certainly seen Tamburro’s work. He’s piloted helicopters in everything from Predator, to Furious 7, to Scarface, to Blade Runner.
According to James R. Chiles’ The God Machine: From Boomerangs to Black Hawks, The Story of the Helicopter, Tamburro put his helicopter on wheels and rolled it under the bridge to measure the clearance, which came to five feet above and four feet on each side. Tamburro flew the stunt at a speed of sixty knots, roughly 70 mph or 111 km/h, (aka highway speed for those of you who don’t drive).
With a lot at stake and not a lot of room for error (quite literally), as Tamburro, himself put it: “If I made a mistake, I would be killed.” The stunt was so obviously dangerous that the scheduled camera crew tasked with shooting the close-ups refused to take part in it. Proving that he’s not one to ask of others what he isn’t willing to do himself, Cameron said “okay fine, I’ll shoot it” and shot the stunt with the help of a very courageous insert car driver.
The only thing more impressive than Tamburro pulling off this stunt is that he pulled it off twice. See, Cameron needed to capture two different angles: one from behind the helicopter and one in front of it. How Tamburro was able to pilot the helicopter with his enormous balls we’ll never know.
https://filmschoolrejects.com/terminator-2-helicopter-stunt/
- I somehow never knew that!
- Thanks for sharing!