what is a Chinook?

Answer 1

Chinook is a type of salmon.

It is also a name for a type of wind.

Chinook winds, often just called chinooks, are a variety of Föhn winds[1] pattern observed in the interior West of North America, where the Canadian Prairies and Great Plains end and the mountains begin. These wind patterns are named for the Chinook Indians. In popular myth, Chinook is supposed to mean "snow eater", as a strong Chinook can make a foot of snow all but vanish inside of one day. The snow partially melts, and partially evaporates in the dry wind. The true origin of the name is that "Chinook Wind" in the local argot of the fur trade era meant that the wind came from the direction of the country of the Chinooks (the lower Columbia River, i.e. from across the Rocky Mountains).

Answer 2

Chinook has several meanings:

The Chinookan nation of Native Americans, and their language.
Chinookan languages, in specific, Coastal Chinook and Upper Chinook
Chinook Jargon, a pidgin hybrid of Chinookan, Nootka, Chehalis, French and English
Chinook salmon
Chinook wind
CH-47 Chinook helicopter
M/V Chinook ferry in Washington State
Chinook College
Chinook (draughts player), a computer program
Chinook (dog)
Chinook, Washington
Chinook Scenic Byway
Chinook Pass
Chinook (Denver weekly)
The Chinook, an early 20th Century newspaper in Vancouver, B.C., published by George Murray
Chinook, Montana

Answer 3

The Boeing CH-47 Chinook is a versatile, twin-engine, tandem rotor heavy-lift helicopter. The contra-rotating rotors eliminate the need for a rear vertical rotor, allowing all power to be used for lift and thrust, giving a top speed of 170 knots (196 mph, 315 km/h). Its primary roles include troop movement, artillery emplacement, and battlefield resupply. Chinooks have been sold to 16 nations, the largest users of which are the US Army and the Royal Air Force (see RAF Chinook). A commercial model, the Boeing 234 Chinook, is used worldwide for logging, construction, fighting forest fires, and supporting petroleum exploration operations.

Answer 4

Chinook

A mild, dry, extremely turbulent westerly wind on the eastern slopes of the Rocky Mountains and closely adjoining plains. The term is an Indian word which means “snow-eater,” appropriately applied because of the great effectiveness with which this wind reduces a snow cover by melting or by sublimation. The chinook is a particular instance of a type of wind known as a foehn wind. Foehn winds, initially studied in the Alps, refer to relatively warm, rather dry currents descending the lee slope of any substantial mountain barrier. The dryness is an indirect result of the condensation and precipitation of water from the air during its previous ascent of the windward slope of the mountain range. The warmth is attributable to adiabatic compression, turbulent mixing with potentially warmer air, and the previous release of latent heat of condensation in the air mass and to the turbulent mixing of the surface air with the air of greater heat content aloft. In winter the chinook wind sometimes impinges upon much colder stagnant polar air along a sharp front located in the foothills of the Rocky Mountains or on the adjacent plain. Small horizontal oscillations of this front have been known to produce several abrupt temperature rises and falls of as much as 45–54°F (25–30°C) at a given location over a period of a few hours. Damaging winds sometimes occur as gravity waves, which are triggered along the interface between the two air masses.

Answer 5

It is a tandem-rotor helicopter manufacturing by Boeing. Its manufacturer designation is 234. Military Chinooks have the numerical designation CH-47.

It has a standard crew of 3 and can carry up to 33 passengers. It can reach speeds up to 170 knots and has a ceiling of 8500 feet.

Answer 6

It is either the name of a Native American tribe or of the wok horse of the US Army. If you ever get on board a chinook helicopter and there is NOT hydraulic fluid leaking just a little bit down the insides..GET OFF it is unsafe to fly that aircraft.

Answer 7

Its all the things everyone has answered of course, warm wind, salmon, helicopter, and my favorite theres an RV named the chinook.

Answer 8

It develop right into a RPG, i think the story you have been are touching on the Chinook develop into flying in intense altitude attempting to drop in troops in the portion of a mountain while it got here under fire.

Answer 9

BEST ANSWER: A Chinook combines a Chinese with a Korean.

This is because CHINese + g00k (korean) = Chinook.

I just made this up but it is highly rational.

At first, g00k was censored. I dont know what it means. I am innocent.

Answer 10

chinook=Fohen wind,
downdraft of wind,on the other side of montain which causes warm wind.