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The Boeing CH-47 Chinook

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@NightstalkerGW · 4 years ago
Spent 20 years working on Chinooks, 'D's and 'E's.  And a slight correction on the speed of the Chinook.  It is faster than the Apache.  Remember several times that we would have to slow down while flying in formation with them.
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@Bloodbeard-os2xh · 4 years ago
One quote I remember about the Chinook is that it doesn't fly, it just beats the air into submission
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@davehertle · 4 years ago
I was a Flipper pilot (CH-47s) during 1969 in VietNam - 196th ASHC (Assault Support Helicopter Co.)  Our "A" and "B" models had engines with 2750 shaft horsepower each.  2.5 hours of fuels added 4,000 lbs. of weight.  We normally could easily lift a 7,000 pound external load.  For a load approaching 10,000 pounds, we would delay until we had burnt off 3,000 lbs. of fuel.  112 decibels of sound in the cockpit meant I learned the joys of tinnitus since my early 20s and high frequency loss of hearing.  I can not hear the blowing of a whistle or the higher notes on a piano.  Instead of the strings being hit by the hammers in the piano, I hear all the sounds of the working of the mechanisms to strike those strings.<br>I have performed single-engine rolling takeoffs after losing an engine in a remote location and not wanting to risk staying there with a disabled machine and a target for the enemy.  I have performed one engine approaches to a slow short rolling landing.  The earlier model chinooks could hardly be expected to hover on one engine.  I have suffered transmission failure in flight getting the aircraft to the ground just prior to total trans-box failure.<br>I once evacuated an entire mountain village in one sortie, over 100 souls on board, included all their livestock.  Quite an aroma, even in flight.  I know the current hook drivers are taught to drive it like a bus, but this aircraft is extremely capable and when needed can perform when flown as if you stole it.  During the years in Afghanistan, I understood and appreciated the mighty force of the CH-47s and how they were deployed in areas of higher elevation.  They are a force to be reckoned with.
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@terenceconnors9627 · 4 years ago
If anything is going to replace Chinooks, it's going to be an upgraded Chinook design. The strengths of their double-rotor design are too important to ignore.
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@klumzyee · 4 years ago
you forgot to mention how insanely skilled the pilots who flew these were.... the payload capacity was necessary for the amount of balls some of those guys had.
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@SuperMauserMan · 4 years ago
Chinook is a Native American tribe and also the name of a seasonal hot wind. If you have ever walked up the tail ramp beneath two turbines exhaust in the rotor wash you realize the name is appropriate.
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@willadams9001 · 4 years ago
If you can’t identify the Chinook from the sound alone, are you even an aviation enthusiast?
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@WAL_DC-6B · 4 years ago
Don't forget, it was Frank Piasecki who pioneered the tandem rotor helicopter in the U.S. in the 1940s.  His Vertol Helicopter Co. was eventually purchased by Boeing becoming Boeing-Vertol.
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@truenetgmx · 4 years ago
Saw two of them yesterday near eastern polish border - wish this were more peaceful circumstances (I was transporting Ukrainian refugees, kids loved the view)
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@grapeshot · 4 years ago
I remember sling loading equipment underneath the Chinooks while serving in the US Army.
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@bjw4859 · 4 years ago
We used them a lot in Australia, we also have a lot of natural disasters, & Dad always used to say when the Chinooks turned up it was all going to be ok, these last floods we've had in Queensland & New South Wales, the Chinooks were back.
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