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Chinook HC1 of Royal Air Force, 1982. In March 1967, the United Kingdom placed an order for fifteen Boeing Vertol CH-47B Chinook to replace the Royal Air Force's Bristol Belvedere HC.1 fleet. In British service the new aircraft was to be designated as the Chinook HC Mk 1 (also formatted as HC.1 or HC1) standing for Helicopter, Cargo Mark 1. [6]
The Chinook is a heavy-lift helicopter that is among the heaviest lifting Western helicopters. Its name, Chinook, is from the Native American Chinook people of Oregon and Washington state. The Chinook was originally designed by Vertol, which had begun work in 1957 on a new tandem-rotor helicopter, designated as the Vertol Model 107 or V-107.
Boeing-Vertol HC-1, a large American tandem rotor helicopter Boeing Chinook HC.1 , operated by the Royal Air Force Aérospatiale-Westland Puma HC.1 , a four-bladed medium transport/utility helicopter
Single-rotor helicopters need a mechanism to neutralize the yawing movement produced by the single large rotor. This is commonly accomplished by a tail rotor, coaxial rotors, and the NOTAR systems. Tandem-rotor helicopters, however, use counter-rotating rotors, with each cancelling out the other's torque.
All 67 people on board the American Airlines regional jet and US Army Black Hawk helicopter that collided midair Wednesday night are presumed dead – a grim tragedy that has left a heartbreaking ...
The Chinook became famous for the singer’s image and Richie himself met with past crew members. “This is incredible,” Richie said in a 2012 CBS story when he saw the aircraft in person. “I ...
The helicopter corridor in use at the time carried an altitude restriction of 200 feet, the NTSB said. The update is more in line with data from one of the airline’s so-called black boxes.
The helicopter hit the ground at 150 mph (240 km/h), breaking apart in a sheet of fire. This was originally the first B-model Chinook, 66-19121, which was converted in 1986 to D-model status. [233] 7 March A Northrop F-5E Tiger II crashes on take-off from Tyndall Air Force Base near Panama City, Florida. Lt.