A Chinook over Canberra!

Deref said :

Indeed, he sometimes described the old RAAF as a drinking club who flew aircraft and as such, the best job in the world.

😀 I’ve wasted my life!

The best thing about the RAAF is that crew safety rules require them all to get eight hours of sleep every day. Any sleep they get at night is a bonus.

Indeed, he sometimes described the old RAAF as a drinking club who flew aircraft and as such, the best job in the world.

😀 I’ve wasted my life!

I’m sure if this thread goes long enough, dvaey will have it belonging to the AFP and whinging about how low the coppers were flying over Mt Taylor…… oh hang on he already did that in the other thread.

The rotors are geared together so they don’t have an issue of one “stopping”. If they get out of whack, bad things happen. Generally spontaneous self disassembly. One of the Orion pilots I worked with was Jack Frost. He was an ex chook pilot and told me some stories about things that they did with them.
In the flight manual, there is a stated maximum descent rate into water. They figured that they’d try it out and so plonked one down into one of the big dams in Qld. Apparently enough of a wave came up that one of the engines copped a big gulp of water. Enough to make the flames go out.

Jack said that there was some anxious time while they got it going again. Apparently they float reasonably well and you can motor around on the water as long as the fans are going.
There was a story that Boeing told the USMC that Chinooks would float upright on with the engines shut down. So the Marines tried it.
Apparently, Boeing neglected to mention one small fact. They do float for a while, but largely upside down.

In the days when the RAAF had the Chinooks, the maintenance guys would have a squadron function down by one of the local lakes and at one time a Chinook came to give rides.
Supposedly one of the pilots knew of an interesting feature where if you are on the water and open the back ramp, you can push the controls forward and sink the back below the surface.
If you then close the ramp and apply power, you can then carry an amount of water into the sky with you. If you maintain the right attitude, you can then release that water rapidly by opening the ramp again. Of course, nobody would do that sort of thing over the groundies BBQ.

In fact, these stories are obviously made up because nobody would dare do that kind of thing with military aircraft in this day and age.

No Chinook pilot would ever land one in a field next to his parents place in Kingaroy so that his crew could have lunch with them.

And anyone who was in the military at least twenty seven years ago would attest to that. 🙂

Caught it out of the corner of my eye after it had gone over. I didn’t bother to look earlier because I figured it was the police chopper that people have been commenting about. I was cheesed off when I realised what I’d missed.

The Chinooks were the only thing Julia Gillard could use to pick up her dirty laundry bag weighing down the Labour party

eily said :

I can remember a RAAF Fairbairn open day in the seventies watching two Chinooks do a ‘courtship’ dance; which ended with the ‘female’ delivering.

I saw it at Amberley in the 80’s….pretty funny, i wonder what happened to the baby.

I had a number of rides in one of these guys when I was in a different line of work. Awesome stuff…like being inside a washing machine on the “agitate” cycle while sitting in front of the speakers at a Rammstein gig that’s being held at a petrol refinery.

There’s not too many things I remember vividly from 30 years ago like they were yesterday, but my Chinook flights are right up there.

Why are pictures like this always so blurry? Can’t you chinook wackos take a decent photo? That top picture is clearly swamp gas, and the bottom picture is an obvious photoshop. Jeez, wake up to yourselves chinookitards, a device like that wouldn’t even be able to fly, and if it could, don’t you think we’d all be using them? Why would the government want to keep technology like that to itself?

This site just gets crazier every day.

They’re doing joy rides at ADFA.

And no I am not in the wrong thread.