Want A Real Good Laugh?

[Nick Tselepides]

Just for those of you, who like some I know, who are a little averse to the rotary wing ,

Click on link and then click on the fly in Chinook button under the pic!

 

You will get a good laugh.

 

 

http://www.chinook-helicopter.com/fly_a_chinook/flight.html

 

Cheers

[navychief]

That is funny!!!!

 

The thing is, I do recall there being quite a lot of vibration when I rode in them...heh, heh.

 

Gotta tell you though, I was usually riding in one that was taking me OFF a carrier deck, so I did not mind the ride at all.

 

Navy Chief

[snapple2993]

I didnt know the Navy had chinooks, thought it was only Sea Knights.

 

Good stuff Nick, LMAO for a bit.

[zagnut]

Wow, the memories came flooding back...

[navychief]

You are right about the Navy not using Chinooks. When I was flown off of the USS Saratoga in Haifa, Israel, the helo may still have been a Chinook. Not sure, as other services were assisting that day. It was right after the ferry boat overturned in Haifa's harbor, drowning 22 sailors. I was with 21 other sailors, assigned as escorts for the drowning victim's bodies being flown back to the states.

 

NC

[+pcpilot]

Your right, the Arrrrrrrrmy has Chinooks, the Navy has an updated version with a different landing gear arrangement called CH-46 SeaKnights.

I was an Landing Signalman Enlisted, LSE, on the USS David R. Ray, a Spruance class destroyer and we would LAND them on our dinky little flight deck. I remember always looking up and watching the blades whapping the air right over my head 2 feet away from the closed hangar doors. Kinda made me wish the navy still had onship bars for use after flight quarters...

 

 

Yeah Nick, thats about right. I flew in one several times, as a Marine and the last time as a LSE trainee at the Imperial Beach naval air station. The pilot took us all up for a "familiarzation" ride. You know, I shoulda know better being prior service. He gets about a 1000 feet up over the strip, cuts collective, and while one of the aircrewmen screams his fool head off saying we are all gonna die, down we plummet, pulling to an abrupt halt not very far off the pavement of the landing strip. I can triple guarentee that that bird STILL has about 20 pairs of hand prints in its seating framework and at least one vomit stain on its flooring...(wasnt me by the way, hehe)