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The Boeing CH-47 Chinook is a tandem-rotor helicopter originally developed by American ... (21,000 kg), and pitch stability augmentation. The T55-L-11 engines were ...
Boeing CH-47 Chinook The Boeing Vertol BV-347 (also known as the Model 347 ) is an experimental helicopter built by Boeing Vertol from a converted CH-47A Chinook . It was used to test potential upgrades for the Chinook, several of which were later incorporated into subsequent versions of the CH-47.
Pages in category "Boeing CH-47" ... Boeing CH-47 Chinook; B. Boeing CH-47 Chinook in Australian service; Boeing Chinook (UK variants) Boeing Vertol BV-347; Bravo ...
Columbia Helicopters Boeing Vertol 107-II and Boeing 234 A Piasecki H-21B in the early 1960s A Yakovlev Yak-24 at Central Air Force Museum. Bell HSL (1953); Boeing CH-47 Chinook (1961) - most-produced tandem-rotor helicopter (over 1,200 built)
Tandem-rotor craft (such as in the Boeing CH-47 Chinook) also employ two rotors spinning in opposite directions—termed counter-rotation when it occurs from two separate points on the same airframe—but have the rotors on separate drive shafts through masts at the nose and tail. This configuration uses differential collective pitch to change ...
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 ...
The T55 serves as the engine on several major applications including the CH-47-Chinook, the Bell 309, and the Piper PA-48 Enforcer. The T55 also serves as the core of the Lycoming ALF 502 turbofan . Since the T55 was first developed, progressive increases in airflow , overall pressure ratio, and turbine inlet temperature have more than tripled ...
A Combat aviation brigade (CAB) is a multi-functional brigade-sized unit in the United States Army that fields military helicopters, offering a combination of attack/reconnaissance helicopters (Boeing AH-64 Apache), medium-lift helicopters (Sikorsky UH-60 Black Hawk), heavy-lift helicopters (Boeing CH-47 Chinook), and MEDEVAC capability.