The Boeing CH-47 Chinook is a twin-engine, tandem rotor heavy-lift helicopter. Its top speed of 170 knots (196 mph, 315 km/h) was faster than contemporary utility and attack helicopters of the 1960s. It is one of the few aircraft of that era, such as the C-130 Hercules and the UH-1 Iroquois, that is still in production and front line service with over 1,179 built to date. Its primary roles include troop movement, artillery emplacement and battlefield resupply. It has a wide loading ramp at the rear of the fuselage and three external-cargo hooks.
Boeing CH-47 Chinook
Boeing CH-47 Chinook
Boeing CH-47 Chinook
Boeing CH-47 Chinook
Boeing CH-47 Chinook
I AM AMAZED THAT THE CHINOOK ALREADY IN THE 1960S-IN TIME FOR VIETNAM ANOTHER COLD WAR ERA STRATEGIC LAND-BASED (PERHAPS THE LAST?!)WAR COULD ALREADY ATTAIN A MYX SPEED-VELOCITY?!LOL! OF 315 KM/H.
ReplyDeleteMY THOUGHTS GO OUT UNRESERVEDLY TO ALL THOSE YOUNG AND PERHAPS NO LONGER SO YOUNG MEN WHO WERE PREPARED TO FIGHT SO VALIANTLY FOR THEIR COUNTRY.
P.S: THIS IS NOT ADRIAN HERE, HE IS HAPPILY SLEEPING-DEAR CHILD-DREAMING OF FUTUR/PAST ?! PALEANTOLOGY!
I SAY CHAP! I AM BUT A BRIT BUT WE ALSO HAVE OUR EQUIVALENT OF WEST POINT?! SANDHURST..AS DO THE RUSKIES AND THE CHINESE, UND.UND..?!
PLESE DO NOT IN ANY WAY BELIEVE THAT I WRITE 8SPEAK) IN JEST. NEVER. MY ORCADIAN GRANDDAD FOUGHT VALIANTLY AND LONG AND HARD FOR THE DECLINING BRITISH EMPIRE, ENDING UP IN WHAT WAS THEN MESAPOTAMIA, NOW IRAQ OR PERHAPS PERSIA , IRAN WHEREAS ON MY MOTHER'S SIDE WE DESCEND FROM A LONG LINE OF VALIANT COSSACKS, WHOSE BATTLE CRY IS AND WILL ALWYS BE: 'PUHU' 2 ANY VOROTZENKY 8ENENMIES9 THAT MAY COME OUR WAY. FRANKLY, BEING A STRANGE KIND OF PACIFIST- I AS A CHILD ALWYS STOOD BY WHILE MY TWIN FEARLESSLY AND PASSIONATELY BEAT 2 LITTLE 8 YEAR OLD BOYS SIMULTANEOUSLY, AND WON THROUGH GRIT AND DETERMINATION WHEREAS I, PLEASE PASS ME A WHITE FLOWER OF COWARDICE, JUST STOOD THERE AND LOOKED PATHETICALLY ON. WTF.LOSER FCCS-L
ABOVE ALL AND MAYBE PATHETICALLY SO, I DON'T KNOW.. I BELIEVE INTURNING 'SWORDS INTO PLOUGHSHARES' BUT PERHAPS I AM JUST DELUDED DESPITE THINKG THAT PERHAPS THE QUAKERS ARE CORRECT IN THEIR THINKING YET EVEN AS WONDERFUL GAME THEORY AS PRESCRIBED BY NOBEL PRIZE (1994) WINING GENUIS/GENIIOUI EXTRAORDINAIRE DICTATED , DESPITE HIS PACIFICISM AND WANTING TO BECOME A 'CITIZEN OF THE WORLD' IN WHICH HE FAILED, RIGHTLY SO. YOU CAN NEVER GIVE UP YOUR ALLEGIANCE TO YOUR FATHER OR MOTHERLAND AND HAVE THE GODLY UNDISPUTED DUTY: 'PER PATRIE MORIRIE'(SORRY MY LATIN IS SECOND-HAND ) AND IFF NOT JUST GO BURY YOUR HEAD IN THE SAND IN SHAME OR BETTER STILL, PERHAPS, AND COWARDLY TOO, SHOOT URSELF IN SHAME.
YOURS SINCERELY, FAYE C CARYNNYK-SINCLAIR.
GOD BLESS AMERICA AND GOD BLESS A CONTINUED PEACEFUL, HARMONIOUS WORLD WHICH WAS THE DOCTRINE OF THE INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL OF GENEVA, SWITZERLAND, MY 1ST ALMA MATER.