Chinook magic

[Ewen]

:) Love this, very skillful flying.
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=6DOfP124_sU

And heres a still...

[jevansio]

Awesome machine!!!!!!

[Shadow Beast]

thats a quality video, enjoyed watching that.

richie

[creative]

wow! amazing what you can get, what is essentially a lump of metal, to do!

[couv3z]

that is amazing for the size of it to be that moveable is just brillant engineering

[hiten55]

wow i have NEVER seen anything like that. never knew you could do that with a hec-i-lopter :)

[AndyT]

Great vid Ewen. :)

[Pot]

Awesome pieces of kit, that bit when it 'lands' in the sea and takes the boat on board's fantastic :)

[L33]

they make those where i live! and most army aircraft

[R Black]

I've never seen one do the water landing before, did'nt think they could pick up launches like that, cool vid

I like these Osprey's.

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=dwKI9gy9AQM&feature=related

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=9huDSjzIAAA&feature=related

[Max Headroom]

Flew in a couple of those down the Falklands, loved it. Sat on the edge of the ramp as he was hurtling along, absolutely awesome :)

[m45sey]

iv been in plenty of these and done some great flights but iv never seen stuff like these

looks sweet

[dangerous brain]

I've been in em when they cock about in them like that. I still work on them now some 17 years on them. Funny thing is all that footage with the decent flying is British chinooks as the yanks cannot fly them like that. The dutch try but crash them :D The display is a brit last year at a dutch air display. Most of the other footage is 27 sqn out in afghanistan (I saw the pre editted footage being as I was there at the time). If they fitted the British external hoist I'd be a bit more confident going in one (put it this way we've banned the use of the internal winch for rescue duties as its too unreliable and the aircraft roof it hangs you from isn't strong enough eek). We've been driving boats in them for years, I remember having to fix one where a boat came in too fast and wiped out the rear right inside including its hydraulics. I can't wait til we get the E models (project I am working on now) into service. Not sure I like that air to air refueling mind :(

[heckler]

I've been in em when they cock about in them like that. I still work on them now some 17 years on them. Funny thing is all that footage with the decent flying is British chinooks as the yanks cannot fly them like that. The dutch try but crash them :D The display is a brit last year at a dutch air display. Most of the other footage is 27 sqn out in afghanistan (I saw the pre editted footage being as I was there at the time). If they fitted the British external hoist I'd be a bit more confident going in one (put it this way we've banned the use of the internal winch for rescue duties as its too unreliable and the aircraft roof it hangs you from isn't strong enough eek). We've been driving boats in them for years, I remember having to fix one where a boat came in too fast and wiped out the rear right inside including its hydraulics. I can't wait til we get the E models (project I am working on now) into service. Not sure I like that air to air refueling mind :(


I take it the E model is the MK3?

[dangerous brain]

Well its actually going to be a mk2a and a bit (the bit being the extra big side tanks) seeing as we are now upgrading the 712's to 714's to bring our D models up to the top spec. Oh PS the E model and later chinooks cannot do the boat thing as the computers are in the back at floor level. And to take the piss a bit more the D model fleet is due an upgrade to glass cockpit at some point. Much more than that I ought not say on a public forum.

[heckler]

Well its actually going to be a mk2a and a bit (the bit being the extra big side tanks) seeing as we are now upgrading the 712's to 714's to bring our D models up to the top spec. Oh PS the E model and later chinooks cannot do the boat thing as the computers are in the back at floor level. And to take the piss a bit more the D model fleet is due an upgrade to glass cockpit at some point. Much more than that I ought not say on a public forum.

I know where your coming from, as my team is waiting to do some testing on them... we have been waiting aaaaggggeeeess....