Back in 1976 there was a passenger train crash at Glenbrook, NSW with the RAAF recovering the wrecked carriage via a Chinook. Pictures of Chinook recovery operations at Railpage forum which also gives the photo and research credits and crash details http://www.railpage.com.au/f-t11340673.htm [may be slow to load] -- Peter C Turn cold to hot if replying personally to this message....

....com/watch?v=ZfoYqa9eqPs> This can't be too good for the aircraft? Flooding the back so a boat can be driven straight in the back door? GB -- .sig US Seals and special forces have been doing it for years, remember that most of the important stuff in a Chinook is overhead. -- "Calling Atheism a religion is like calling bald a hair color." Don Hirschberg

...'s wel erg ruig, die dingen maken _echt_ een pestkabaal. Valt wel meer hoor. Valt mee voor een heli, ok als je echt een hoop kabaal wil dan moet je 'es onder een chinook of apache gaan staan. ;-) met ArieBleekjes zeg ik: Carl Gustav....een wekker van die fabrikant zal je gegarandeerd wakker maken. En dan klagen je buren ook nooit weer over je brommer, al is 't een Haglie ...

Yagu wrote: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/7434205.stm Sea Sprites spring to mind.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/7434205.stm -- Yagu http://iraq.reuters.com/ http://www.journalism.org/

...> Apropos of nothing in particular, that Prince or one of his chums has been low-level flying over the office all day. Noisy little sod, or possibly noisy big sod since it's a Chinook. You need to buy an RPG with a few rockets. After all, he claims it's training so might as well make it as real as possible. Do you know? If I was training and had to knock up ...

...says... Apropos of nothing in particular, that Prince or one of his chums has been low-level flying over the office all day. Noisy little sod, or possibly noisy big sod since it's a Chinook. You need to buy an RPG with a few rockets. After all, he claims it's training so might as well make it as real as possible. -- Conor I only please one person per day. Today is not...

..., Edinburgh and Pearce to support C-17A operations. The Globemaster carries up to four times the payload of the RAAFÂ’s other combat airlift workhorse, the C-130 Hercules. It can carry more than 70 tonnes of cargo; for example, up to three Black Hawk or Sea Hawk helicopters, or a Chinook helicopter, or five Australian Light Armoured Vehicles. -- Posted at www.Usenet.com.au

...doubt this beer is one of the best examples of a Cascade and Centennial hop aroma combo. Just and smooth as it is crisp with a hardened medium malty body that is quickly surrounded and consumed by the sizeable Chinook hoppiness. Yeah there is malt here, toasted and a touch of caramel. All of that is cleared out from the hops ... love the hop. 2007 is great, I'll be going out to grab a case...

...attack helicopters, not a supersonic multirole fighter. Helos have very limited in high altitude and/or hot conditions. It's one of the reasons why the Coalition is using larger helos like Chinooks and Pumas for roles that are usually assigned to things like Blackhawks and Lynx. Also the reason why A10's attack jets are so popular in Afghanistan instead of Apache gunships. But ...