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17th May 2018

… Liam Wilson CHINOOK HC6A ZD983 has received the RAF100 scheme. The … confined area. It will be the primary aircraft for the RAF Chinook Display Team this season. This is the service’s third … Typhoon FGR4 ZK318 and Texan T1 ZM326. … Centennial Chinook …

4th October 2018

… base in Gao. The aviation detachment is comprised of five CH-146 Griffon and three CH-147F Chinook helicopters from 450 and 408 Tactical Helicopter …

22nd November 2018

… Defence Force as a whole regards it as a ‘fixed-wing Chinook’ and the concept of operations now being developed …

27th September 2018

… The three Chinook HC5 helicopters deployed by the Royal Air Force to … claimed a large number of lives. Guy Martin All three RAF Chinook HC5s at Gao, and French troops wait to board an RAF Chinook. Ministry of Defence … RAF Chinooks fully operational …

17th May 2018

… MARKED Elliniki Aeroporia Stratou (Hellenic Army Aviation) CH-47D Chinook ES929 took part in the military parade held over … Serial ES929 is one of the recently delivered ex-US Army CH-47Ds, having arrived in Greece on November 22 last year …

By Ian Harding 25th October 2018

… variants (AH7/AH9A) retiring, and new variants like the Chinook HC6 and Merlin HC4 introduced. The helicopter …

By STEVE SLATER 11th October 2018

… the South Atlantic to complete his tour of duty on Boeing Chinook helicopters. “Even the SAS were sometimes a bit …

20th September 2018

… is home to three flying units: 298 Squadron flying the CH-47D/F Chinook, 300 Squadron flying the AS532U2 Cougar and 301 … This year he was supervising HWIC for the fourth time. CH-47D loadmaster/gunner tackles a target at the range. Each …

20th September 2018

… THREE RAF Chinook helicopters – deployed to Mali earlier this summer – …

20th September 2018

… NEWS North America Dutch soldiers exit the CH-147F for a reconnaissance patrol north of Gao on August … Task Group boarded a Royal Canadian Air Force (RCAF) CH-147F helicopter at Camp Castor. The Chinook helicopter, plus two CH-146 Griffon escorts, …

By Tom Kaminski 6th September 2018

… CARRIED OUT the maiden flights of the first AH-64E and CH-47F for India on July 27. The flights respectively took … India ordered 22 Apache Guardian combat helicopters and 15 Chinook transport helicopters in 2015 at a cost of around $3 … flight-test facility. Boeing N4801A (c/n M2401), the first CH-47F for India, carried out its initial flight at Boeing’s …

18th October 2018

… mercy missions and fi ghting wildfi res, Germany’s CH-53s have excelled in testing tasks. Dr Kevin Wright … capability . Boeing has stated it will propose the CH-47 Chinook, and Sikorsky the CH-53K King Stallion, with …

23rd August 2018

… T55 engines, the same type of engine as used by the CH-47F Chinook. The Lycoming/ Honeywell T55 might be replaced by a … in level flight. Canadian helicopters join Minusma mission CH-147F Chinook 147307 on the flight line at Gao, Mali. Royal …

18th October 2018

… joining the USAF, I had served in Vietnam as a US Army Chinook pilot. My first air force operational posting was on … the war” Desert Shield/Operating Location-Camel Hump (OL-CH): Early into my command, it was evident that our U-2s … on my own. The daily stand-up get-together changed to OL-CH battle-staff meetings, with their needs passed through …

16th August 2018

… of two new types for the air arm − the AH-64E Apache and CH-47(I) Chinook helicopters. A total of 22 Apache and 15 Chinooks …