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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. Its name, Chinook, is from the Native American Chinook people of Oregon and ...
In May 1989 a Chinook transported a 8,000-kilogram (18,000 lb) section of a memorial to the pioneering aviator Lawrence Hargrave onto Mount Keira near Wollongong. [31] The RAAF's Chinook fleet suffered two serious accidents. On 26 June 1975, A15-011 crashed when one of its engine turbines disintegrated; none of its crew were injured.
The Chinook Display Team is an aerobatics display team in the Royal Air Force based at RAF Odiham. The team flies the UK variant Boeing CH-47 Chinook , and is composed of volunteers from front-line aircrew who train and execute air show performances between day-to-day primary military operations.
The Boeing Chinook is a large, tandem rotor helicopter operated by the Royal Air Force (RAF). A series of variants based on the United States Army 's Boeing CH-47 Chinook , the RAF Chinook fleet is the largest outside the United States. [ 1 ]
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 ...
Interior of Bravo November, 2022 at RAF Museum Nose of the helicopter, in 2013 when it was still in service Hauling a slung load near RAF Odiham RAF's Bravo November Chinook, 2013. Bravo November is the original identification code painted on a British Royal Air Force Boeing Chinook HC6A military serial number ZA718. It was one of the original ...
The son of a man killed in the RAF’s worst peacetime air crash has raised an official complaint over the decision by the Ministry of Defence (MoD) to lock away files relating to the tragedy for ...
"Chinook" is used for coastal Chinook winds in British Columbia, and is the original use of the term, being rooted in the lore of coastal natives and immigrants, and brought to Alberta by French-speaking fur-traders. [1] [9] Such winds are extremely wet and warm and arrive off the western coast of North America from the southwest.