The Boeing CH-47 Chinook is a tandem-rotor helicopter originally developed by American rotorcraft company Vertol and now manufactured by Boeing Defense...
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On 6 August 2011, a U.S. CH-47D Chinook military helicopter operating with the call sign Extortion 17 (pronounced "one-seven") was shot down while transporting...
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the United States Army's Boeing CH-47 Chinook, the RAF Chinook fleet is the largest outside the United States. RAF Chinooks have seen extensive service...
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The Australian Defence Force has operated Boeing CH-47 Chinook heavy-lift helicopters for most of the period since 1974. Thirty four of the type have entered...
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Chinook, several of which were later incorporated into subsequent versions of the CH-47. Development of the BV-347 began in January 1969, when Boeing...
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Sea Knight and the CH-47 Chinook. The name became Boeing Helicopters in 1987, and the current name was adopted in 2002. When Boeing merged with McDonnell...
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selected over Boeing Vertol's modified CH-47 Chinook version. The prototype YCH-53A first flew on 14 October 1964. It was designated CH-53A Sea Stallion...
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The 1978 Iranian Chinook shootdown was an incident on 21 June 1978, when four Boeing CH-47 Chinooks of the Imperial Iranian Air Force strayed into Soviet...
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the CH-54 was not upgraded with larger engines. The relatively small fleet proved costly to maintain, thus the tandem-rotor Boeing CH-47 Chinook, a rival...
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helicopters (Boeing AH-64 Apache), medium-lift helicopters (Sikorsky UH-60 Black Hawk), heavy-lift helicopters (Boeing CH-47 Chinook), and MEDEVAC capability...
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version of the Chinook HTS7500 T55/LTC4 Bell 214 Bell 309 KingCobra Boeing CH-47 Chinook Boeing Chinook (UK variants) Boeing Model 360 Boeing RC-135 - One...
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paraglider Birdman Chinook, a family of single and two-place, pusher configuration, high-wing ultralight aircraft Boeing CH-47 Chinook, a tandem-rotor helicopter...
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heavy equipment instead of troops. In response, Boeing Vertol offered a modified version of the CH-47 Chinook; Kaman Aircraft offered a development of the...
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was canceled in 1975. The prototype was scrapped in 2005. While the CH-47 Chinook is a large helicopter by American standards, its payload of 28,000 lb...
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JAG Officer Don Brown, about the 2011 Chinook shootdown in Afghanistan of a United States Boeing CH-47 Chinook helicopter. It is published by Rowman &...
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to CH-113A Labrador when the Canadian Forces acquired the CH-47 Chinook KV-107II-1 (CT58-110-1) Utility transport version, one built from Boeing-supplied...
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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...
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selected over Boeing Vertol's modified CH-47 Chinook version. The prototype YCH-53A first flew on 14 October 1964. The helicopter was designated "CH-53A Sea...
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Branch. It operates the Boeing AH-64 Apache attack helicopter, Sikorsky UH-60 Black Hawk helicopter, and Boeing CH-47 Chinook helicopter. It has been...
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Piasecki H-21 (redirect from Boeing-Vertol H-21 Shawnee)
Related development Piasecki HRP Rescuer Piasecki H-25 Boeing Vertol CH-46 Sea Knight Boeing CH-47 Chinook Aircraft of comparable role, configuration, and era...
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Chinookan peoples (redirect from Chinook people)
" Chinook salmon Chinook (wind) Boeing CH-47 Chinook Neerchokikoo Wilson, Katie (October 7, 2014). "Recognition move by Oregon tribe stirs Chinook concerns"...
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(1953) Boeing CH-47 Chinook (1961) - most-produced tandem-rotor helicopter (over 1,200 built) Boeing Model 360 (1987) Boeing Vertol 107-II (1958) Boeing Vertol...
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surveillance (1962). There is also one helicopter: Boeing CH-47 Chinook (1962). Hopkins, III, Robert S. (1997). Boeing KC-135 Stratotanker: More Than Just a Tanker...
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7.766 lb/sq ft (37.92 kg/m2) Related development Boeing Vertol CH-46 Sea Knight Boeing CH-47 Chinook Aircraft of comparable role, configuration, and era...
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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. Capable of lifting...
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227th Aviation Regiment fly the Sikorsky UH-60 Black Hawk and the Boeing CH-47 Chinook. It provides aerial C3 support, limited air assault, aeromedical...
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Mil Mi-26 (section Afghanistan Chinook recovery)
comparable role, configuration, and era Boeing CH-47 Chinook Mil Mi-6 Mil V-12 Sikorsky CH-53E Super Stallion Sikorsky CH-53K King Stallion Citations Braybrook...
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Gallery of USAFF weapons – 2008 USAF Almanac, Air Force Magazine, May 2008. Boeing/Sikorsky RAH-66 Comanche, militaryaviation.eu. "UH-72 | Airbus U.S." 2021-08-10...
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helicopters, and later identified some of them as tandem-rotor Boeing CH-47 Chinooks used by military forces worldwide. More specifically, Cash claimed...
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based at Chandigarh Air Force Station. It received the first four Boeing CH-47 Chinook in service on 25 March 2019. Only four Mi-26s served with this Helicopter...
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