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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 ...
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]
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)
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 ...
One of the aircraft, aiding in construction and firefighting work in neighboring Tajikistan, was leased for $300,000; it lifted the Chinook, flew it to Kabul, then later to Bagram Air Base, Afghanistan to ship to Fort Campbell, Kentucky, U.S. for repairs. Six months later, a second U.S. Army CH-47 that had made a hard landing 160 kilometres ...
The operational requirements of the ISV were nine passengers, a payload of 3,200 pounds (1,500 kg), transportable by external sling load by a Sikorksy UH-60 Black Hawk helicopter, internal load/external lift by Boeing CH-47 Chinook helicopter, low-velocity air drop by Lockheed C-130 Hercules or Boeing C-17 Globemaster III transport aircraft and ...
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]
Sikorsky has said that the X2 design is not suitable for heavy-lift size, and instead suggests the CH-53K for heavy-lift and tiltrotor for the ultra-class. [28] However, Sikorsky plans to build the 30,000-pound-class (14,000 kg) JMR-TD (with a cabin 50% larger than the Black Hawk ) at full scale to remove doubts about the scalability of the X-2 ...