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A Boeing CH-47 Chinook at Campbell Army Airfield on 7 August 2012 delivering two Humvees by sling load. On 6 August 2011, a Chinook crashed near Kabul, killing all of the 38 aboard. The Chinook was reportedly shot down with a rocket-propelled grenade by the Taliban while attempting to assist a group of U.S. Navy SEALs. The 38 were members of ...
Boeing Vertol CH-46 Sea Knight Animation A tandem-rotor aircraft is an aircraft with two large helicopter rotor assemblies mounted one in front of the other in the horizontal plane . This configuration is mainly used for large cargo helicopters. [ 1 ]
A RAAF CH-47C Chinook lifting a crashed World War II-era A-20 Boston in Papua New Guinea. No. 12 Squadron was re-raised at Amberley on 3 September 1973 to operate the Chinooks. This unit had flown bombers between 1939 and 1948 before being renumbered No. 1 Squadron. [15]
Examples include the unarmed versions of the Mil Mi-8, Super Puma, CH-46 Sea Knight, and NH90. Heavy lift helicopters are the largest and most capable of the transport types, currently limited in service to the CH-53 Sea Stallion and related CH-53E Super Stallion, CH-47 Chinook, Mil Mi-26, and Aérospatiale Super Frelon. [2]
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While the CH-47 Chinook is a large helicopter by American standards, its payload of 28,000 lb (13,000 kg) is dwarfed by the huge Soviet-Russian heavy-lift helicopters such as the Mil Mi-26, with 44,000 lb (20,000 kg) payload, and the experimental Mil V-12, with 55,000 to 88,000 lb (25,000 to 40,000 kg) payload. For a long time Boeing and the US ...
Columbia's past fleet includes the Hiller 12B, Bell 47-G2, Hiller 12E, MD 500, Sikorsky S-58, Sikorsky S-61 and Sikorsky CH-54. [ 12 ] In October 1991, Columbia Helicopters bought four Boeing Vertol 107II-14s from the Swedish Government, formerly operated by the Swedish Air Force as the HKP 4A .
The QTR study is one of five designs; one of the five is also a Boeing program, an advanced version of the CH-47 Chinook. [1] During the initial baseline design study, Bell's engineers were designing the wing, engine and rotor, while the Boeing team was designing the fuselage and internal systems. [9] A similar arrangement is used on the V-22.