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 fact that the CH-47 has been in operation for 60 years—and remains one of the Army’s most effective helicopters—speaks to its significance.

U.S. Army soldiers assigned to 19th Special Forces Group, and Royal Moroccan Army soldiers fast-rope out of a CH-47 Chinook in Tifnit, Morocco, on June 14, 2021, during African Lion 2021. (Spc.

31 Aug 2022, 11:56 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu // The U.S. Army has decided to stop all its 400-strong Chinook fleet from flying after discovering some of them are prone to a fuel leak and fires Super ...

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 ...

The U.S. Army grounded its entire fleet of approximately 400 CH-47 Chinook helicopters due to fuel leaks and engine fires. The problem stemmed from faulty O-rings installed during routine maintenance ...

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 ...

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 ...

Boeing could start flight tests of a US Army NCH-47D Chinook with the more powerful GE Aviation T408-GE-400 turboshaft engine within a couple of months, if not several weeks. The company is currently ...

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 ...

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 ...