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oh chinook
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Crell
thats a CH53 Super Stallion I believe.
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What you don't want to see in your rear-view mirror
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Beamers, it's actually an MH-53J Pave Low. Essentially a special forces version of the Super Stallion and just generally awesome.
When I were a nipper in Suffolk, the USAF used to have a couple knocking around at Bentwaters/Woodbridge to help collect any A10 pilots and they were just amazing to watch fly overhead.
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2 Chinooks passed low over the metropolis that is Redditch yesterday, one may have been the one that landed at the QE from RD's original post, not sure why they had to try and sneak under radar coverage, estimate they were approx 50m above ground.
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Kind of like a Chinook, but able to carry 91 tonnes at 350mph.
Edit: OK, so it may have problems doing VTOL medevacs.
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Edit: OK, so it may have problems doing VTOL medevacs.
or fly higher than a few metres...
WIG are cool though
you can see the sea monsters parked up if you look on google maps satellite
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Nuke - there's loads in Dorking / Westcott as they all fly in to say goodnight to my son most nights
(plus as mentioned they have permission to land at the foot of the N. Downs in the evenings & it fits in between Gatwick / Heathrow civililian traffic)
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rootes1 - that's quite incredible...
Monster indeed.
Apparently the original idea was to use them as invasion craft - they were intended to ship entire divisions and/or armour at 300+ mph under radar levels. Quite a scary prospect, really.
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From that Ekranoplan thread (which works on this post and is worth checking out despite being in Russian):
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What a beast!
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Where do you work Votchy?
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Apparently the original idea was to use them as invasion craft.
Christ alive. Good job we've still got some Spitfires in working order.
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Christ alive. Good job we've still got some Spitfires in working order.
I agree! That'd see those damned commies off pronto.
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Houns - Coventry, old man told me about the 2 Chinooks when I got home
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Awesome bit of kit ,a bit worrying when the loady starts checking for oil leaks just as you take off .
Also been blown over whilst waiting on one knee when they come in hot and also amazing to be in when the pilot is hedge hopping also being in a lynx when they stall it and drop was another brown trousers momentPosted 1 year ago # -
See them coming in right past my office for maint. fairly regularly. Love it when the Apaches do the same - you can hear (feel!) them from quite a distance, just seems to less interesting stuff mostly though.
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noteeths link says it all really.
1 off pilot shot in the head, lands helo.
1 soldier throws live enemy grenade and catches frag in face.
1 soldier gets blown up for a third time, loses legs etc.
MOD civilian helps policewomen. well done love.Posted 1 year ago # -
noteeths link says it all really.
1 off pilot shot in the head, lands helo.
1 soldier throws live enemy grenade and catches frag in face.
1 soldier gets blown up for a third time, loses legs etc.
MOD civilian helps policewomen. well done love.1 soldier clears a minefield from the inside and leads his mates to safety and then gets killed crossing the road back in the UK.
What a waste.
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how about Quad Rotors?
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*Just* had 2 Chinooks fly directly over my parents place near Northallerton. Amazing beasts.
The other day a Tornado took a good close look at their garden.
I wish the crews the best of luck.
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