The Chinook could have been a search and rescue legend
Search-and-rescue choppers have become legendary. Remember the Jolly Green Giants and Pave Hawks? Well, it turns out that there was another helicopter …
This RAF Chinook served in every major British conflict from the Falklands to Afghanistan
The Boeing CH-47 is the heavy lifter of the U.S. Army. Outside of the United States, Britain’s Royal Air Force is the largest operator of the helicopter. Originally designated HC1…
This monster aircraft was the helicopter version of the AC-130 gunship
With two 20mm cannons, a 40mm automatic grenade launcher, five .50-cal. machine guns, and two weapon pods that could carry either 70mm rocket launchers or 7.62mm miniguns, the armored ACH-47A Chinook could fly into the teeth of enemy resistance and …
Here is how a Chinook pulled off that amazing rescue on Mt. Hood
A video made the rounds last year of a CH-47 Chinook pulling off an amazing rescue on the slopes of Mt. Hood in central Oregon. If you’ve seen it, you may be wondering just how the heck that happened — after all, the Chinook is a very big helo th…
Meet the pilots who fly SEALs and Delta Force to their most dangerous operations
The Army’s 160th Special Operations Aviation Regiment, Airborne, (SOAR-A), has earned the nickname “The Night Stalkers.”
Operating under the cover of night or the shadows of dawn, these elite pilots are responsible for getting special opera…
Why the Navy may look to this Army workhorse for special ops
For years, the Navy has been planning to buy Lockheed’s newest version of the Sea Stallion helicopter, the CH-53K King Stallion. In fact, they’ve already pre-ordered 200 of the new helicopter. But Lockheed’s new bird is running into a lot of stum…