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CH-47 Chinook Helicopter The Chinook's primary mission is moving artillery, ammunition, personnel, amd supplies on the battlefield. Chinooks from the 11th Air Assault formed the nucleus of the 228th Assault Helicopter Battalion which began operations in Viet Nam in September, 1965. The Army recognized that that the Chinook fleet was rapidly reaching the end of its useful life and signed a contract with Boeing to significantly improve and update the CH-47. www.minihelicopter.net /CH47Chinook   (2155 words)

CH-47 Chinook - Military Aircraft The Chinook's primary mission is moving artillery, ammunition, personnel, amd supplies on the battlefield. Chinooks from the 11th Air Assault formed the nucleus of the 228th Assault Helicopter Battalion which began operations in Viet Nam in September, 1965. The Army recognized that that the Chinook fleet was rapidly reaching the end of its useful life and signed a contract with Boeing to significantly improve and update the CH-47. www.fas.org /man/dod-101/sys/ac/h-47.htm   (2209 words)

CH-47 Chinook - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Chinooks have been sold to 16 nations, the largest users of which are the US Army and the Royal Air Force (see RAF Chinook). The Chinook could be equipped with two door-mounted M60D 7.62 mm NATO machine guns on the M24 armament subsystem and a ramp-mounted M60D using the M41 armament subsystem. The Chinook was used in air assault missions, inserting troops into fire bases and later bringing food, water, and ammunition. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/CH-47_Chinook   (1472 words)

Chinook   (Site not responding. Last check: ) The Chinook's primary mission is moving artillery, ammunition, personnel, and supplies on the battlefield. Chinooks from the 11th Air Assault formed the nucleus of the 228th Assault Helicopter Battalion which began operations in Viet Nam in September, 1965. The Army recognized that that the Chinook fleet was rapidly reaching the end of its useful life and signed a contract with Boeing to significantly improve and update the CH-47. www.ch47.org /chinook.htm   (1641 words)

A somber chapter in history of storied military copter: 3/5/02 That is because it was a CH-47 Chinook that Monday became the first U.S. aircraft to take ultimately fatal enemy fire during the five-month-old war in Afghanistan, Pentagon officials said. Pentagon officials say the Chinooks' recent grim record is not a reflection of an unsafe aircraft but rather of an indispensable one. Capable of flying at night and in nearly all weather conditions, Chinooks over the years have been used not only to transport troops, artillery pieces, vehicles, fuel, water and other supplies to battlefields, but also in search-and-rescue, firefighting, medical evacuation and disaster-relief missions. www.s-t.com /daily/03-02/03-05-02/a02wn015.htm   (677 words)

The Boeing MH-47D Chinook helicopter - A loss in Afghanistan. The helicopter — flying with a second Chinook at the time of the crash — was part of Operation Red Wing, which U.S. military officials described as an ongoing effort launched after “a series of harassing attacks and intelligence-gathering activities against Afghan and U.S. forces” in Kunar Province. During that fight, a MH-47E Chinook carrying special operations troops was hit with a rocket-propelled grenade and forced into an emergency landing. The second Chinook helicopter that was lost in Afghanistan was 90-00217, lost on 24 April 2003 during combat operations as a result of engine failure. chinook-helicopter.com /news/Afghanistan/MH-47_Crash/MH-47_Crash.html   (1162 words)

Resilent Chinook has been a workhorse for 40 years That is because it was a CH-47 Chinook that Monday became the first U.S. aircraft to take ultimately fatal enemy fire during the 5-month-old war in Afghanistan, Pentagon officials said. During a pitched battle Monday against enemy forces dug into the forbidding eastern Afghanistan mountains near Gardez, a U.S. MH-47 Chinook carrying commandos and trying to land was hit by an al-Qaida- or Taliban-fired rocket-propelled grenade, which didn't explode but caused the pilot to lose control for a time. In 1999, the Army temporarily grounded its entire Chinook fleet — which now stands at 572 — after the discovery of cracked transmission gears, which were repaired. www.suburbanchicagonews.com /focus/terrorism/archives/0302/e05chinook.html   (738 words)

April 2002 - Army's Boeing MH-47 Chinook helicopter fleet nearing exhaustion. During the first three months of operations, which began 19 October for the Army's specially configured Chinooks, the unit flew 72 missions to infiltrate special operations forces and conducted 18 extractions. The special ops Chinooks succeeded because their extended fuel tanks allowed more than 4 hours of flying, enabling them to get across the mountain range before they needed to refuel. One of the difficulties the Army faces is that the MH-47s have a longer nose where additional avionics are stored, but not all standard Chinooks have that feature. www.chinook-helicopter.com /news/General_News/Fleet_News/exhausted.html   (1378 words)

Boeing: History -- Products - Boeing CH-47 Chinook Rotorcraft Chinooks first were used in combat in 1965 during the Vietnam conflict. The CH-47D Chinook was a central element in U.S. Army operations in the Persian Gulf War, where more than 160 Chinooks carried U.S. and Allied troops to outflank Iraqi forces and cut off their retreat from Kuwait. Using the Chinook airframe, Boeing Helicopters also built the Model 234, the commercial Chinook used for passengers, cargo, oil and gas exploration, and logging. www.boeing.com /history/boeing/chinook.html   (571 words)

Edwards Air Force Base - Air Force Teams with Army   (Site not responding. Last check: ) The Chinook is a twin-turbine, heavy-lift transport helicopter modified to support special operations missions. Electronic warfare experts suspended the Chinook and then rotated the aircraft to measure a series of antenna patterns. Together, the tests determined if improvements on the existing placement of the Chinook's RWR antennas were warranted, said Mike Sikorski, an Edwards radio frequency engineer. www.edwards.af.mil /archive/2002/2002-archive-chinook_test.html   (394 words)

Army Technology - CH-47D/MH-47E Chinook - Heavy Lift Helicopter Chinooks are under licensed production by Agusta of Italy and Kawasaki in Japan. The Chinook is equipped with a suite of countermeasures systems selected by the customer country. The Special Forces variant of the Chinook, MH-47E, is fitted with the ATK AN/AAR-47 missile approach warner, Northrop Grumman ALQ-162 Shadowbox jammer, ITT ALQ-136(V) pulse jammer, Raytheon APR-39A radar warner and BAE Systems Integrated Defense Solutions (formerly Tracor) M-130 chaff and flare dispenser. www.army-technology.com /projects/chinook   (1092 words)

Pearl SEALs killed or MIA - The Honolulu Advertiser - Hawaii's Newspaper The Chinook, which apparently was brought down by a rocket-propelled grenade, was on a rescue mission to find four SEALs in eastern Afghanistan. The Chinook was fired upon as it approached its landing zone at dusk, Col. Jim Yonts, spokesman for U.S. operations in Afghanistan, told The Associated Press. The stricken Chinook, from the 160th's 3rd Battalion, stationed at Hunter Army Airfield, Ga., either crashed into or tried to land on a mountainside, but rolled down the steep slope into a ravine, according to military officials. the.honoluluadvertiser.com /article/2005/Jul/01/ln/ln03p.html   (1545 words)

160th SOAR - MH-47 Chinook Helicopter With the use of special mission equipment and night vision devices, the air crew can operate in hostile mission environments over all types of terrain at low altitudes during periods of low visibility and low ambient lighting conditions with pinpoint navigation accuracy. The MH-47E is a heavy assault helicopter based on the CH-47 airframe, specifically designed and built for the special operations aviation mission. The MH-47D Adverse Weather Cockpit (AWC) Chinook is a twin engine, tandem rotor, heavy assault helicopter that has been specifically modified for long range flights. www.soc.mil /160soar/chinook.shtml   (229 words)

Ballistic Addon Studios - MH-47 Chinook The Army bought 26 of the advanced MH-47E Chinook helicopters, and has lost three -- one during Operation Anaconda in Afghanistan, another in the Philippines and one in a training accident. The first MH-47E Special Operations Chinook served as a flight test prototype, and aircraft numbers 2 and 3 were utilized initially for electromagnetic environmental effects and aircraft survivability equipment testing at the Naval Air Test Centre in Patuxent River, Maryland. The 25 MH-47E and the 11 MH-47D that are used in special missions were to be converted to the new version by the end of 2003, Operational demands in Afghanistan and Iraq meant that these upgrades were delayed and are still in progress. www.ballisticaddonstudios.com /content/view/74/58   (1766 words)

Defense Tech: Chinooks To the Rescue Boeing's HH-47 Chinook has won the $10-billion CSAR-X contest to provide 141 Combat Search and Rescue choppers to the Air Force, beating out the Lockheed Martin US.101 and the Sikorsky H-92. The tandem rotor, heavy-lift, high-altitude HH-47 is based on the CH/MH-47 Chinook transport helicopter, with performance capabilities that have been widely demonstrated in the ongoing global war on terrorism and in numerous U.S. and international humanitarian relief operations. Width is about the same, but obviously with two main rotors the 47 needs a lot more square footage, to say nothing of a pilot's ability to keep the rear rotor clear in a tight LZ since he can't see it. www.defensetech.org /archives/002953.html   (623 words)

CH-47 Chinook Factsheet The venerable twin-engine, tandem rotor Chinook helicopter has undergone numerous upgrades since the first CH-47A model was delivered to the Army for use in Vietnam. The Chinook is equipped with two T55-GA-714A turboshaft engines, which are pod-mounted on either side of the rear pylon under the rear rotor blades. The self-sealing fuel tanks are mounted in external fairings on the sides of the fuselage. www.gruntsmilitary.com /chinook.shtml   (636 words)

deseretnews.com | Searchers hoping some SEALs alive All 16 aboard the MH-47 Chinook were killed, apparently after the helicopter was hit by a rocket-propelled grenade. The stricken Chinook, from the 160th's 3rd Battalion, stationed at Hunter Army Airfield, Ga., either crashed into or tried to land on a mountainside, but rolled down the steep slope into a ravine, according to military officials. The Chinook is the third MH-47 lost by the 160th since the September 11, 2001, attacks. deseretnews.com /dn/view/0,1249,600145666,00.html   (737 words)

NewsFromRussia.Com Chinook found, 13 troops feared dead Rescuers have reached the crash site of a U.S. special forces MH-47 Chinook helicopter that crashed into a rugged mountain ravine in eastern Afghanistan, but there was still no word on whether the 17 troops on board died as feared, a U.S. military spokesman was qouted as saying by the AP on Thursday. The Chinook, which crashed on June 28, west of Asadabad, a town in the Kunar province, may have been shot down by a rocket propelled grenade, Marine Corps General Peter Pace told reporters in Washington yesterday, reminds Bloomberg. Four Chinook helicopters were flying U.S. reinforcements to help others on the ground Tuesday when a helicopter crew saw smoke from an insurgent position - possibly indicating a missile or rocket had been fired, the officials said. newsfromrussia.com /hotspots/2005/06/30/60492.html   (2116 words)

CNN.com - U.S. copter came under fire before crash - Jun 29, 2005 A MH-47 Chinook, similar to the one that crashed, on the flight deck of the carrier USS Kitty Hawk in 2002 Four Chinook helicopters were flying U.S. reinforcements to help others on the ground Tuesday, when a chopper crew saw smoke from an insurgent position -- possibly indicating a missile or rocket had been fired, the officials said. Many of the 17 service members on the MH-47, a variant of the Army's twin-rotor Chinook transport, were believed to be members of various special forces units known as a QRF -- a quick response force -- which moves in under fire to either extract troops on the ground or reinforce them. www.cnn.com /2005/WORLD/asiapcf/06/29/afghan.crash/index.html   (790 words)

Army Times - Four dead in Ga. helicopter crash An Army helicopter clipped a wire on a television transmission tower and crashed Thursday, killing four soldiers on a training mission, officials said. A fifth soldier aboard the MH-47 Chinook helicopter suffered only minor injuries, said Lisa Eichhorn, a spokeswoman for Fort Rucker, Ala., home to an Army helicopter training school where the soldiers were headed. The elite unit, also known as the Night Stalkers, uses MH-47 Chinooks to fly special forces commandos behind enemy lines under cover of night. www.armytimes.com /story.php?f=1-292925-1840656.php   (310 words)

DefenseNews.com - Searchers Work amid Hope That Some SEALS Survived Crash - 07/05/05 09:52 The Chinook was fired on as it approached its landing zone at dusk, Col. Jim Yonts, spokesman for the U.S. military operation in Afghanistan, told the Associated Press. His teammates returned to the mountain on another Chinook to search for him, but were also taken under fire and forced to seek cover. When a third Chinook flew to the top of the mountain full of Rangers, it was shot down. www.defensenews.com /story.php?F=954615&C=mideast   (963 words)

DEFCON <Afghanistan>   (Site not responding. Last check: ) Anderson was shot and killed while exiting an MH-47 Chinook helicopter under fire on Takur Ghar Mountain in eastern Afghanistan during Operation Anaconda on March 4, 2002. Roberts was aboard a MH-47 Chinook helicopter preparing to land on Takur Ghar mountain in eastern Afghanistan when the helicopter was hit by rocket-propelled grenades, causing Roberts to fall from the helicopter's ramp. Svitak, a gunner on a MH-47 Chinook helicopter, was shot and killed as the helicopter landed on Takur Ghar mountain in eastern Afghanistan to rescue a Navy SEAL who was under fire from al Qaeda fighters. www.afgedefcon.org /Docs/Afgahn/2002.htm   (1906 words)

CNN.com - Source: Special ops member rescued in Afghanistan - Jul 3, 2005 When four Chinook transport helicopters bringing in reinforcements arrived at the scene, the team was not there, and no signs of blood or combat were evident, military officials said. It was during the relief operation that one of the twin-rotor Chinooks crashed. The Chinook that crashed was a MH-47, a variant of the standard CH-47. edition.cnn.com /2005/WORLD/asiapcf/07/03/afghan.missing/index.html?section=cnn_latest   (552 words)

Seven U.S. Soldiers Die in Battle - washingtonpost.com Seven U.S. servicemen were killed yesterday when two MH-47 Chinook helicopters were struck by enemy fire in the mountains of eastern Afghanistan as U.S.-led forces battled al Qaeda fighters in the fiercest ground combat of the five-month-old war. The seven soldiers died on a rugged, frigid battlefield south of the city of Gardez after the twin- rotor helicopters, attempting to bring troops to the battlefield, were hit by rocket-propelled grenades and machine-gun fire. The first helicopter was attacked yesterday when the MH-47 Chinook -- a U.S. Special Operations troop transport aircraft -- was attempting to bring American forces to the scene of the battle. www.washingtonpost.com /wp-dyn/content/article/2006/10/11/AR2006101101419_pf.html   (1459 words)

Chinook Helicopter all Aviation Mechanical Maintenance Technical Manuals Aviation mechanical maintenance technical manuals Chinook helicopter preventive maintenance daily inspections ch-47, ch47d, mh-47d, unit intermediate repairs advanced flight control system (Afcs) bench test set depot maintenance repair parts auxiliary power unit special tools lists flight restrictions for aircraft Integrated lower controls actuator (ilca).... TB 1-1520-240-20-86 To inspect the bond lines on the 114p8079-2 and 114p8079-3 stra assemblies for looseness around the edges for all ch-47d, mh-47 and mh-47e aircraft TB 1-1520-240-20-89 Inspection and repair of aft pylon clamshell door lower latch t preclude wear and/or in-flight loss of doors for all ch-47d, mh and mh-47e aircraft www.military-manuals.com /3_by_air/chinook-helicopter/chinook-helicopter-all-aviation-mechanical-maintenance-technical-manuals.html   (2152 words)

4 killed in Army helicopter crash in Ga. - Boston.com A fifth soldier aboard the MH-47 Chinook helicopter suffered only minor injuries, said Lisa Eichhorn, a spokeswoman for Fort Rucker, Ala., home to an Army helicopter training school where the soldiers were headed. The chopper's crew was from the 3rd Battalion, 160th Special Operations Aviation Regiment based at Hunter Army Airfield in Savannah, according to the U.S. Army Special Operations Command. Angela Tyner, 32, heard the crash, dialed 911 and then jumped in her pickup truck and drove to the nearby cow pasture where the wreckage lay. www.boston.com /news/nation/articles/2006/06/01/military_helicopter_crashes_in_south_ga   (437 words)

KSBI-TV - Home - U.S. Secures Afghan Crash Site Thursday's statement said forces were "in position to impede any enemy movement into or away from the crash site," an indication that soldiers continue to face insurgents in the area. Four Chinook helicopters were flying U.S. reinforcements to help others on the ground Tuesday when a helicopter crew saw smoke from an insurgent position -- possibly indicating a missile or rocket had been fired, the officials said. The MH-47 Chinook is only flown by the 160th Special Operations Aviation Regiment, according to U.S. Army officials. www.ksbitv.com /home/1647462.html   (705 words)

History for 1st Battalion, 75th Ranger Regiment Commons and Crose were shot and killed when they were exiting a chinook helicopter while under fire on Takur Ghar mountain in eastern Afghanistan. Roberts was aboard a MH-47 Chinook helicopter preparing to land on Takur Ghar mountain, Afghanistan, when the helicopter was hit by rocket-propelled grenades, causing Roberts to fall from the helicopter's ramp. Svitak, a gunner on a MH-47 Chinook helicopter, was shot and killed as the helicopter landed on Takur Ghar mountain, Afghanistan, to rescue a Navy SEAL who was under fire from Al-Qaeda fighters. www.military.com /HomePage/UnitPageHistory/1,13506,712249|829764,00.html   (330 words)

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