There are show horses and there are workhorses, and the Army’s CH-47 Chinook helicopter is definitely a workhorse. For more than 50 years, Chinooks have served as the Army’s heavy lift helicopter, ...

The Chinook, first inducted into the US Army in 1962 during the Cold War, has been a backbone of military heavy-lift ...

A little over 60 years ago, the YCH-1B, the prototype for the H-47 Chinook tandem-rotor heavy-lift helicopter, first took flight. It was developed and designed at Vertol, but by the time the prototype ...

For more than 60 years, the CH-47 Chinook has supported U.S. military and humanitarian operations across the globe, responding to emergent needs and remaining an effective platform for evolving ...

A twin-engine, tandem-rotor, medium/heavy-lift transport helicopter, the CH-47 Chinook first flew in 1961. The current CH-47F is powered by two 4,733-shp Honeywell T55-GA-714A engines. The MH-47G ...

In 1962, Boeing introduced the CH-47 Chinook, that funky-looking, tandem-rotor heavy lift machine we are so used to see flying over the battlefields of America’s wars. It’s quite an old breed of ...

A CH-47 Chinook helicopter operated by an aircrew with the 5th Battalion, 159th (5th, 159th) General Support Aviation Battalion of Fort Eustis, Va., conducts operations Aug. 12, 2024, at Fort McCoy, ...

Honeywell started testing an upgraded version of its T55 turboshaft for the Boeing CH-47 Chinook in November at its Phoenix facilities. The US Army and Honeywell plan to test the T55-714C engine’s ...

The US Army believes it is feasible to upgrade its fleet of Boeing CH-47 Chinooks with the GE Aviation T408 turboshaft engine. That is the service’s conclusion after seven months of flight testing the ...

Aircrews and maintenance personnel with the 5th Battalion, 159th General Support Aviation (5th, 159th) Battalion of Fort Eustis, Va., brought four CH-47 Chinook helicopters to support training in the ...