Your help is greatly appreciated and also, if you find a website with Chinook's information, plase provide a link. Thank You!
2007-12-12 10:37:12 · 6 answers · asked by little s 2 in Cars & Transportation ➔ Aircraft
thankyou, do u know the air frame composition???
2007-12-12 10:59:06 · update #1
The Chinook is mainly a troop transport with the capability of carrying vehicles. It is made by Boeing and entered service in 1961. It is still in service today.
2007-12-12 10:48:45 · answer #1 · answered by B 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
A CH-47 Chinook is a heavy lift, multipurpose troop transport helicopter. The airframe has been around for 35+years and will continue into the future for quite sometime. The chopper was plagued with Combining Transmission failure. The parts were cleaned with walnut shells, the minute pieces of shell were not removed properly and they were the right size to plug the bearing journal oil holes. The bearing fails, the transmission fails and down it comes. The problems has been fixed though.
2007-12-12 21:30:43 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
A Chinook is a tandem rotor helicopter that has 6 rotor blades, 2 engines, 2 rotor heads, and 5 transmissions and manufactured by Boeing Vertol. The service can vary.
2007-12-14 21:08:34 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Here is some information on Boeing's CH-47 Chinook with history and specifications
http://www.boeing.com/rotorcraft/military/ch47d/
http://www.army-technology.com/projects/chinook/index.html
2007-12-12 20:33:40 · answer #4 · answered by Jerry L 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Military heavy lift. Boeing Vertol, though it's just Boeing Helicopters these days.
Jeez, has nobody told you about Google or Wikipedia? This isn't a question that needs asking here becuase the answers are all perfectly available.
2007-12-12 21:58:55 · answer #5 · answered by Chris H 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Not a lot to add. Still pissed that Canada sold theirs about 10yrs back...now looking to buy new ones!
Lost a mate several years ago to a combining transmission failure...
With new avionics and uprated engines and tranny....it'll be front line for many years to come.
A really good site that tracks it's development is here:
http://www.fas.org/man/dod-101/sys/ac/h-47.htm
2007-12-12 21:51:30 · answer #6 · answered by helipilot212 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋