Two aviators from the Royal Netherlands Air Force’s 302nd Squadron achieved a combined 9,000 flight hours on the CH-47 Chinook helicopter…
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‘Did you know that CH-47 crew can land the Chinook on water, shut down, climb up on top for a photo, then get back in, start up and take off?’ CH-47 pilot lists 14 Amazing Facts about Chinook Helicopter
by Dario LeoneDavid M. Densford, Chinook pilot with 4,000 flt hrs and 24 years in the CH-47 models A thru F, lists 14…
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Israeli Air Force CH-53 Yas’ur Crash-Lands in Negev Desert. All Crew Members Uninjured
by Dario LeoneA technical malfunction that led to a fire in the engine caused the CH-53 Yas’ur to come down near Kibbutz Beit…
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Two US Service Members Killed in AH-64D Apache attack Helicopter Crash in Afghanistan
by Dario LeoneFirst reports mentioned that the rotors of the AH-64D Apache clipped a mountain ridge in Logar Province (east Afghanistan). The two…
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U.S. Army CH-47F destroyed after crash-landing in Afghanistan
by Dario LeonePassengers and crew aboard the helicopter were injured when the CH-47F they were travelling in was destroyed during a “hard landing”…
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Lockheed Martin will bid with its massive CH-53K helicopter, while Boeing will seek to sell its smaller twin-rotor CH-47 The top…
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CHINOOKS FOREVER! U.S. ARMY SIGNS CONTRACT FOR NEXT-GENERATION CH-47 TRANSPORT HELICOPTER
The U.S. Army will upgrade more than 500 Chinooks to Block II configuration The U.S. Army has signed a contract with…
