Is this correct? No other countries can replicate the Chinook?

Russia had the YAK-24, but it could only carry about 4,400 lbs compared to the Chinook's beastly 26,000 lbs.

They were great fun as are the Labradors (modded Voyagers) --------------------- Allies such as Japan (via Kawasaki) and Italy have license-produced Chinook variants, while Russia and China rely on different heavy-lift designs like the Mi-26, underscoring US mastery of this specific configuration.

Very cool!

Love Helis 😇

Ok but,

We did have the The Bristol Type 192 Belvedere that ended service in 1968 but haven't had a tandem rotor helicopter domestically produced since in the UK.

Boy, if you ever wanted to make sure a couple was talking to each other, it is those rotors.

Chinooks fly over my house frequently. They make a distinctive sound. Sometimes when I took a walk to lunch from work I would see formations of three Chinooks.

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They fly over my house pretty often. Them and Blackhawks

Huge load capabilities. An engineering masterpiece.

Here's a HALO lifting up a damaged Chinook.

Soviet Yakovlev Yak-24 Lest you forget

Cool, thank you!

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For a bit of clarity, the XCH-62 never really got very far. The empty shell airframe's only flight was Mobile to the Army Aviation Museum under a CH-47. I was there at the delivery. It was cool but nobody was calling the 62 a helicopter at the time and there really was no reason for it to be at Ft. Rucker. It was just another cancelled project. The US Army could have had a larger helicopter. The Army and Congress decided it was unnecessary.

Boeing builds the vast majority of the Chinook helicopters in Pennsylvania. They've licensed a Japanese and Italian company to make them as well.

Yep. The Chinook is as bad ass as the A10.

They don't actually fly. Like many helicopters they're so ugly that the earth repels them.

Nothing else sounds like them

Nope.

How do the droopy blades not hit each other at start up?

I should think that it is false.

They'll be flying over the house in a little bit.

Russian Mil MI-26. Does the same job as the chinook.

Not really. If someone wanted to, they could. The tech is not unobtainable. Japan has built Chinooks via Kawasaki under license since the 1980s (CH-47J/JA models) and Italy has assembled CH-47C variants through Agusta. But, both remain tied to Boeing designs and US supply chains.

Yes it is CH 47 is a beast She can handle any mission Airborne ops or sling load, moving troops or light vehicles and supplies An absolute workhorse Oh and has two door gunners and a tail gunner 50 cals and mark 19s

The Brits worked out the bugs on the Harrier Jump jet.

There have been multiple small ones. Here are the big ones. Bristol Type 173 - just a few built Bristol Type 192 Belvedere - used in the 1960s; could carry 19 troops. Yakovlev Yak-24 - Soviet Air Force and Aeroflot. Depending on the model, it could carry 19 or 40 troops.

Fastest there is. Talked to one of their pilots and they give the attack choppers shit for being slower.

Badass, and best, chopper.

Very cool dudes. Tax dollars well spent.

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I was in a US Marine Corps squadron of CH-46 Sea Knights (Phrogs), tandem-rotor helicopters but not Chinooks. Like the Chinooks, they were also Boeing Vertol. However, some tandem-rotor aircraft were not made by Boeing, such as the Piasecki H-21, Yakovlev Yak-24, Bristol Belvedere, and Bell HSL. The video’s claim is not precisely accurate, but the Boeing Vertol aircraft (Chinook and Sea Knight) were by far the most badass versions of such helicopters.

I was a Flight Engineer (FE) in those. Bosnia/Kosovo/Iraq, stinger position. (M60 On the Ramp.) Life goes quick, but it goes faster in a ‘47. 🇨🇱🇺🇸🦅

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After seeing these birds bringing in supplies to WNC after hurricane Helene I have nothing but respect.

Outstanding! Loved taking flight in them.

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