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The Boeing CH-47 Chinook is a tandem-rotor helicopter originally developed by American rotorcraft company Vertol and now manufactured by Boeing Defense, Space & Security.The Chinook is a heavy-lift helicopter that is among the heaviest lifting Western helicopters.
The Boeing Chinook is a large, tandem rotor helicopter operated by the Royal Air Force (RAF). A series of variants based on the United States Army's Boeing CH-47 Chinook, the RAF Chinook fleet is the largest outside the United States. [1] RAF Chinooks have seen extensive service in the Falklands War, the Balkans, Northern Ireland, Iraq, and ...
The Australian Defence Force has operated Boeing CH-47 Chinook heavy-lift helicopters for most of the period since 1974. Thirty four of the type have entered Australian service, comprising twelve CH-47C variants, eight CH-47Ds and fourteen CH-47Fs.
On Tuesday, Boeing announced that it has signed an agreement to build 177 CH-47F Chinook.
The Boeing Vertol BV-347 (also known as the Model 347) is an experimental helicopter built by Boeing Vertol from a converted CH-47A Chinook.It was used to test potential upgrades for the Chinook, several of which were later incorporated into subsequent versions of the CH-47.
On 6 August 2011, a U.S. CH-47D Chinook military helicopter operating with the call sign Extortion 17 (pronounced "one-seven") was shot down while transporting a Quick Reaction Force attempting to reinforce a Joint Special Operations Command unit of the 75th Ranger Regiment in the Tangi Valley in Maidan Wardak province, southwest of Kabul, Afghanistan.
Less than a week after winning a massive $4.8 billion order from the Department of Defense to build 177 CH-47F Chinook heavy lift helicopters for the Army, Boeing has won another one. In a news ...
Boeing Vertol CH-47 Chinook. Boeing Rotorcraft Systems (formerly Boeing Helicopters and before that Boeing Vertol) is the former name of an American aircraft manufacturer, now known as Vertical Lift division of Boeing Defense, Space & Security. The headquarters and main rotorcraft factory is in Ridley Park, Pennsylvania, a suburb of Philadelphia.