The Chinook, first inducted into the US Army in 1962 during the Cold War, has been a backbone of military heavy-lift ...
For more than 60 years, the CH-47 Chinook has supported U.S. military and humanitarian operations across the globe, responding to emergent needs and remaining an effective platform for evolving ...
Helicopters are, by design, kind of quirky aircraft, but on the scale of strangeness there's nothing more so than the CH-47 Chinook, the so-called king of pinnacle landings. And not even the most ...
The Army has affirmed plans to rapidly field Boeing’s new CH-47F Block II Chinook, which will include outfitting two Combat ...
Congress has moved to spare the upgrade program for the Boeing CH-47F Chinook from a five-year deferral proposed earlier this year by the U.S. Army. The budget compromise agreed to last week by a ...
FORT CAMPBELL, Ky. — Screaming Eagle Soldiers of the 101st Airborne Division completed testing a modernized configuration of the CH-47 Chinook helicopter known as Block II during the recent exercise ...
Boeing's vertical lift unit has revealed a new autonomous tiltrotor concept designed for military operations, featuring ...
The Chinook is a twin-engine, tandem-rotor, medium/heavy-lift transport helicopter that first flew in 1961. The current CH-47F production model is powered by two 4,733-shp Honeywell T55-GA-714A ...
While the heavy-lift helicopter may provide an edge for European missions, cash-strapped countries are looking for immediate solutions with little cost.
The nation’s first pair of civilian-owned Chinook helicopters landed south of Billings on Thursday afternoon — and, since they’re now owned by Billings Flying Service, it’s here they’ll stay until ...