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Subject: ch47 chinnok
bob the brit    1/1/2007 1:18:24 AM
doesn't anyone else find this heli bloody sexy... come on, now that's a helicopter i'm proud to have been a passenger in. what's everyone elses fav' transport heli... there's plenty out there... merlin, seaking (even though it's had a bit of a disastrous history), even the ch46 seaknight... gotta hand it to you yanks, you sure can build nice choppers
 
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doggtag    Sexy is the new CH-47F   1/1/2007 4:39:44 AM

New Boeing CH-47F Takes Flight


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ST. LOUIS, Oct. 25, 2006

 

The Boeing Company's [NYSE: BA] first production CH-47F Chinook helicopter successfully completes its first flight Oct. 23 from its Rotorcraft Systems facility in Ridley Park, Pa., where testers evaluated the aircraft's systems and structural performance. Boeing will deliver the new CH-47F to the U.S. Army for operational testing before being deployed in 2007.

After conducting the flight, Boeing test pilot Erik Kocher said, "The U.S. Army will have the most advanced, mission-capable heavy lift helicopter in the world. The CH-47F will provide crews with configurable flight displays for more efficient mission performance and a communications suite for greater situational awareness. The digital automatic flight control system will provide an enhanced and safer low speed flight capability, and the airframe enhancements will yield a safer and more reliable combat system."

The same cockpit system installed on the CH-47F and MH-47G Special Operations Chinooks will be used in the HH-47 proposed in the U.S. Air Force Combat Search and Rescue program and will include terrain following/terrain avoiding radar and an integrated forward looking infrared system for nap-of-the-earth and low-level flight operations in reduced visibility conditions.

 

Source / Credit: The Boeing Company

 
 
 
 
 
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doggtag    CH47F Glass Cockpit   1/1/2007 4:41:20 AM
And check out the new glass cockpit:
 

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CH47F Glass Cockpit

Pentagon, 19 January 2005 — The new CH-47F features a modern "glass cockpit" in which computer displays replace traditional "steam gauges" and provide a color map of the helicopter's course. By 2018, all of the Army's Chinooks will use this hardware.

DoD photo taken by Sgt. Lorie Jewell
 
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longrifle       1/1/2007 11:11:58 AM
I've been in Hueys, Blackhawks, Chinooks, one Skycrane, one British Puma, and one OH-58.  Hueys are fun for the nostalgic value; Blackhawks are the funnest ride and the bird I'd want to be in if I had to make an airmobile assault into a hot LZ;  Chinooks are the funnest jump - walking off the tailgate- and the most comfortable to sleep on (important for a young paratrooper who's been going for a few days straight with little sleep);  and Skycranes are the most novel, both for the ride and the jump. 
 
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bob the brit       1/1/2007 11:56:09 PM
you jumped out a CH 54 Tarhe (skycrane)? no doubt from a people pod right? how many troops can they carry (fully equipped) 40? 45? 50?
 
 
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bob the brit       1/1/2007 11:59:06 PM
CH47F, this heli just gets better and better, nice cockpit too, cheers for the info and picks Doggtag
 
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bob the brit       1/2/2007 12:00:43 AM
longrifle-where you from? unit?
 
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longrifle       1/2/2007 8:00:57 AM
Bob,
 
Correct, it was from the people pod.  I don't remember how many troops were on board.  That was at Ft. Bragg, NC in 1986.  It was what we called a "hollywood" jump, meaning administrative, we weren't wearing full combat equimpent.  The helicopter was already quite rare at that time, it was being flown by a reserve unit.  That's the only time I've ever been on board a Skycrane, just for that one jump.
 
My unit they was the 325th Airborne Infantry Regiment.  Now it's the police department I work for. 
 
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longrifle       1/2/2007 8:03:26 AM
I wish we had an edit feature here.  On my last post my second to last sentence should read "My unit then...
 
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AdvanceAustralia    You hear that?   1/16/2007 4:30:56 PM
I've only been in Iroquois, Kiowa and Chinook. It's the sound of the Bell UH-1 that does it for me.Wokka. wokka, wokka.

An alternative Apocolypse Now classic line could have been: "You hear that? You hear that? Nothing else in the world sounds like that!"

The sound of a UH-1 Iroquois (Huey to the Yanks) is the very definition of what it means to be a helicopter.

An Iroquois made a flight over Queen Alia International Airport (Jordan) today. I was outside doing a walk around of our construction site. I could not help but be drawn in the direction of those blades beating the air.

Stirs the blood.

Cheers.
 
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