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CH47 Chinook

IN HOC SIGNO said:
very nice....and someday that will be a Cdn helicopter they are disembarking from!! ;D :cdn:

If the Chinooks in the pictures are Dutch.... they are (or were) ours :(
 
In reference to the picture of the troops crammed in like sardines, The worst ride is better than the best walk  8)
 
ArmyRick said:
In reference to the picture of the troops crammed in like sardines, The worst ride is better than the best walk  8)

When I was Chaplain to RCD in early nineties they used to say "Why walk where you can drive?" and "Any fool can be uncomfortable in the field." Sort of along the same lines I guess.
 
Good2Golf said:
the Griffon rocks for what is (honestly) asked of it -- it puts a smile on my face every time I fly it.

You truly had a deprived childhood...
 
Good2Golf said:
Apostle, the CH147A (I guessing on the designator, based on the original) will complement vice compete with the CH146 Griffon.

Its actually the CH147 "F" model not the A, that we are planning to acquire.  It is far more capable, way more bells and whistles and almost double the range with the extra fuel tanks :)
 
What we call it won't necessarily have anything to do with what the manufacturer calls it.
 
Sounds all nice!! But what is going to escort them?? The states have Apaches, what we will put c6`s on it! lol ???
 
Chou said:
Its actually the CH147 "F" model not the A, that we are planning to acquire.  It is far more capable, way more bells and whistles and almost double the range with the extra fuel tanks :)

We originally had upgraded "C" models IIRC, we called them CH-147's. So what model we get and what we call it are typically two different things.

Calling our new ones CH-147A's would follow along our traditional naming of aircraft types since these will be our second version of Chinook, thus the "A" or possibly "B" identifier.
 
Is there any news on when we are getting them? When the contract will be signed etc? We seem to have lost track of this purchase with all the hoopla over the C17.
 
no news.... on either the CC130Js, CH47s or the C27Js
(and that's just part of the Airforce's shopping list)
 
Inch said:
We originally had upgraded "C" models IIRC, we called them CH-147's. So what model we get and what we call it are typically two different things.

Calling our new ones CH-147A's would follow along our traditional naming of aircraft types since these will be our second version of Chinook, thus the "A" or possibly "B" identifier.

Ahh... I did not know that, I was just referring to the manufactures designation.  We recently had a presentation on the Chinooks at the squadron where they clarified a few things regarding model type, specs, due date of "possible" arrival, location.. etc.
 
All CF aircraft have a C?### designator: C = Canadian, C/E/F/H/T/U = cargo, electronic warfare, fighter, helicopter, trainer, UAV, then a 3-digit numeric designator.

Our "CH147" Chinooks were Boeing CH-47C"+"s -- the first C-model with an AFCS (automated flight control system) in additional to the SAS (stability augmentation system).  Our C+'s were also upgraded with a 28,000lb hook (vice 24,000 hook of the CH-47C), had a 50,000lb MGTOW (vice 46,000lbs of the C) and an ISIS (internal structural integrity system) in the rotor blades.  The engines were also upgraded to the Lycoming T55-L-11C from two earlier engines, the T55-L-7C and the T55-L-11A, and provide ~3,900shp and an emergency 10sec rating of ~4,600shp.

I don't really see anything other than CH147A being used as the designator for the next Canadian model of Chinook brought into service.

G2G
 
Good2Golf said:
I don't really see anything other than CH147A being used as the designator for the next Canadian model of Chinook brought into service.
If one person here can be confused by the suffix letter, others (especially in other people's armies) will be too. Tell your US buddy that you fly CH147As and he'd likely respond, sympathetically, with "I thought that all of those got upgraded/sold/retired/scrapped long ago". Perhaps CH147F would make more sense internationally.
 
Loachman said:
Perhaps CH147F would make more sense internationally.

I concur - albeit we don't differentiate our Hercules aircraft with an "E" or "H".  If we get Spartans, will we just call a CC-277 or CC-27J ?  CH-147 works for the basic description, adding that "A" might just mess with too many minds in the end.
 
Folks seem to know that a CF188 is a Hornet, a CC130 is a Herc...they'll figure out a CH147(insert letter here) is a Chinook, methinks.

G2G
 
True, we don't officially tack on an E or H to our Herc designation, but we do use those letters the same as everybody else. We don't call our Es "CC130As" and our Hs "CC130Bs".

Although people could understand that a CH147 is a Chinook, calling what everybody else refers to as an "F" an "A" doesn't promote clarity.
 
in that case, call em CH147C1s or C2s?
It worked ok for the Leos 8)
 
geo said:
in that case, call em CH147C1s or C2s?
It worked ok for the Leos 8)

CH147C2...sure, I'm good with that!  ;)

LM, we do have CH124A's and CH124B's however...
 
Technicalities..... we can figure this out, we can figure out anything
 
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