All that incredible engineering, advanced design concepts, high-tech manufacturing....and at 0:55 there's a guy up there getting the job done with duct tape!! lol Some things never change! Great job, all involved!
@@bermosks Good luck to the Sunni Taliban in finding spare parts, their 'mates' on the other side of Islam's civil war, Shia Iran, is still looking for spares for their F14 Tomcats. No trouble however finding things to make and ship Shaheed drones to that great supporter of Islam, Putin, in the invasion of Ukraine...yeah, thanks China and Nth Korea, your deeds are duly noted.
Anrae Godley-Cooper--turbo kicking in? These are 2 turbines (jet engines driving shafts through transmissions to the rotors) not turbo-charged engines. Nothing "kicks in" with turbines
What a fantastic helicopter the Chinook is.after 13 years in the Army, that's the most impressive use of a Chinook I've ever seen.well done keep up the great work and thanks for getting us out of the shit.alot of us owe our lives to the RAAF.
Don't forget density altitude and temperature, plus the range that it has to carry that 'Bou. Remember that the Chinook, like most other helicopters, must trade fuel capacity for payload. Depending on the combination of these factors, that Wokka could well be maxed out on this lift.
I was a Chinook FE in Vietnam (242nd ash) Supporting the Aussies was always a hoot. One day we were taking a sling load of plastic jugs of water out to the Aussies in the bush we arrived on scene but there was no place big enough to set down. Sorry guys...they said ohy cummin matey, just punch it off till be OK. OK matey her she comes. I was sure surprised as to how many acres 500 one gal jugs can cover .
Because at the time this was filmed, most had already been retired, or otherwise phased out due to the lack of flight hours remaining. They'd likely had to have cannibalised another airframe in order to get this one back in the air again. Air freight by Chook was probably the most cost-efficient method to transport this particular Caribou.
After the chopper picks up some airspeed the fixed wing of the plane will provide some lift and lighten the load, for it to happen the plane should be pointing it's nose in the right direction, guess the drag chute will help a bit on direction.
I actually did this same thing in Ecuador. I took a C model down there from Panama. We picked up a Caribou in Puzo, on the edge of the Amazon and took it up to Latacunga, ar 10000 feet. This was in the mid 80’s and I do have a video but it’s so shaky it will make you sick. I flew Chinooks for 15 years and is an amazing aircraft.
My dad’s best friend in the Army flew Chinooks, and my dad got a mission with him one day as a lead or chase heli in the UH-1 Huey. They kind of looked at each other like hey stranger because they hadn’t seen each other since panama. They were now somewhere in Korea. My dad always tells the story of how his friend Randy Potter was making a Caribou taxi after they had delivered it from the sheer amount of wind the bird generates. Unfortunately Randy flew the earlier Chinooks that still had Gear box problems, which ultimately ended in my dad losing his best friend just because Boeing couldn’t fix the problem that they knew about in the Chinook. The gearbox had started spewing hot oil everywhere, which ultimately ignited. This had happened to him 3 times, but the third time he couldn’t get it down, because it had burnt through his FC’s. The sad thing is that right before his crash, he was supposed to be receiving a Broken Wing Award. R.I.P. Randall Potter, my dads best friend 🙏. Google it and it will have a better explanation of what happened.
The aircraft would have taken out the engines and unbolting the wings on the fuselage, moving it with a crosswind can endanger chinook stability. Very good video.
In my 26-1/2 years in the Army I flew in the aCH-47 many times and loved it! My favorite was the Huey because I flew it in it a lot more. Never had a bad flight in the Chinook.
