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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 ...
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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]
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.
Boeing's (BA) CH-47 Chinook is currently used by militaries of nations such as the United Kingdom, The Netherlands, Spain, Australia, Japan, South Korea and others. Boeing (BA) Wins $581M Delivery ...
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]
463LMP Capacity AgustaWestland AW101: 2 Sikorsky CH-53K King Stallion: 2 Boeing CH-47 Chinook: 3 CASA/IPTN CN-235* 4 Lockheed C-130 Hercules E/H models: 6 Lockheed C-130 Hercules J-30 model: 8 Embraer KC-390: 7 Kawasaki C-2: 8 Airbus A400M Atlas: 9 Boeing 707: 13 Lockheed C-141 Starlifter A model: 10 Douglas DC-8-62: 14 Douglas DC-8-63: 18 ...
Mil V-12 at the Central Air Force Museum. Design studies for a giant helicopter were started at the Mil OKB in 1959, receiving official sanction in 1961 by the GKAT (Gosudarstvenny Komitet po Aviatsionnoy Tekhnike - State Committee on Aircraft Technology) instructing Mil to develop a helicopter capable of lifting 20 to 25 tonnes (22 to 28 short tons).