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The Boeing Vertol CH-46 Sea Knight is a medium-lift tandem-rotor transport helicopter, furnished with a set of counter-rotating main rotors in a tandem-rotor configuration. It was typically powered by a pair of General Electric T58 turboshaft engines, which were mounted on each side of the rear rotor pedestal; power to the forward rotor was ...
Tandem-rotor helicopters, however, use counter-rotating rotors, with each cancelling out the other's torque. Therefore, all of the power from the engines can be used for lift, whereas a single-rotor helicopter uses some of the engine power to counter the torque. [1] An alternative is to mount two rotors in a coaxial configuration.
Boeing Vertol CH-47 Chinook. Boeing Rotorcraft Systems (formerly Boeing Helicopters and before that Boeing Vertol) is the former name of an American aircraft manufacturer, now known as Vertical Lift division of Boeing Defense, Space & Security. The headquarters and main rotorcraft factory is in Ridley Park, Pennsylvania, a suburb of Philadelphia.
The Boeing CH-47 Chinook is a tandem-rotor helicopter originally developed by American rotorcraft company Vertol and now manufactured by Boeing Defense, Space & Security.The Chinook is a heavy-lift helicopter that is among the heaviest lifting Western helicopters.
Boeing Vertol CH-46 Sea Knight; Boeing CH-47 Chinook; Boeing Vertol YUH-61; ... Vought-Sikorsky VS-300; Sikorsky CH-37 Mojave; Sikorsky CH-53 Sea Stallion;
Vertol HC-1A - CH-46 Sea Knight; Vertol HC-1B - CH-47 Chinook; Vertol VZ-2; Vertol HRB Sea Knight; Vertol HUP; Vertol CH-125 RCAF; Vertol CH-127 RCAF; Vertol CH-113 Labrador Canadian Armed Forces; Vertol 44 - same aircraft as VZ-2; Vertol 76; Vertol 107 - company model number for prototype Sea Knight; Vertol 114 - HC-1B
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Orthographically projected diagram of the Boeing Vertol CH-47 Chinook. Data from Royal Air Force [1] [13] General characteristics. Crew: 3–4 (pilot, copilot, one or two air loadmasters depending on aircraft role) Capacity: 55 soldiers and equipment; Length: 98 ft 9 in (30.10 m) Height: 18 ft 8 in (5.69 m) Empty weight: 22,450 lb (10,183 kg)