Army Recognition

U.S. Army Trains With CH-47 Chinook helicopter to Strengthen Rapid Resupply for NATO Operations.

U.S. Army soldiers conducted sling-load training with a CH-47 Chinook helicopter in Germany, practicing the coordination ...
Aviation Wall on MSN

How the Boeing CH-47 Chinook carries troops and cargo

A documentary review of the Boeing CH-47 Chinook’s tandem-rotor design and how that enables heavy-lift missions. The video ...
The National Interest

Why the Army Can’t Live Without the CH-47 Chinook

The fact that the CH-47 has been in operation for 60 years—and remains one of the Army’s most effective helicopters—speaks to its significance. With an unmistakable silhouette, the Boeing CH-47 ...
Military

Army orders as many as 32 Boeing CH-47 heavy-lift helicopters in $713.9 million deal

REDSTONE ARSENAL, Ala., 13 April 2015. U.S. Army aviation experts are ordering as many as 32 Boeing CH-47 Chinook multi-mission, heavy-lift transport helicopters under terms of a $713.9 million ...
Flying

U.S. Army Grounds Fleet of CH-47 Chinooks Because of Engine Fire Risk

The U.S. Army has grounded its entire fleet of approximately 400 CH-47 Chinook heavy-lift helicopters due to faulty parts causing fuel leaks and engine fires. The problem was traced to O-rings not ...
Aviation Wall on MSN

Indian Air Force CH-47 Chinook lifts an M777 howitzer

A CH-47 Chinook of the Indian Air Force lifts an M777 howitzer in a heavy-lift demonstration, showing how artillery can be moved into mountainous and remote areas. The operation requires precise ...
The National Interest

To Steal a CH-47 Helicopter, China Offered to Make a Taiwanese Pilot Rich

China offered a Taiwanese military pilot $16 million to defect with an American-sourced CH-47 Chinook heavy-lift helicopter earlier this year, with plans to land the rotorcraft aboard an amphibious ...
Machine Design

The CH-47 Chinook Turns 60

A little over 60 years ago, the YCH-1B, the prototype for the H-47 Chinook tandem-rotor heavy-lift helicopter, first took flight. It was developed and designed at Vertol, but by the time the prototype ...
Aviation Week

CH-47 Makes Inaugural Flight With T408 Engine

The U.S. Army conducted its first flight of a NCH-47 Chinook equipped with the GE Aviation T408 engine, which is the same turboshaft engine outfitting the CH-53K King Stallion. The flight ...
The Washington Times

Unstoppable workhorse: Chinook chopper still doing heavy lifting of combat after 60 years

A version of this story appeared in the daily Threat Status newsletter from The Washington Times. Click here to receive Threat Status delivered directly to your inbox each weekday. It was born in the ...
The Aviationist

Video shows CH-53 dropping a CH-47 helicopter over Afghanistan. No, this is not the new way the U.S. is bombing Taliban.

This video shows a CH-53E dropping the wreckage of an external CH-47 Chinook in Afghanistan after it began to swing out of control. The pilot had to cut the rope-suspended cargo when he realised it ...