Corgi – Boeing Chinook CH-47C , ‚AE-520 / ZA704‘ Argentine Air Force (ZA704 captured Chinook HC.2 RAF) , Falklands War 1982

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                   Boeing CH-47 Chinook

Boeing CH-47 Chinook je americký střední transportní vrtulník s tandemovým uspořádáním dvou nosných rotorů. Je přímým pokračovatelem známého typu CH-46D Sea Knight. První prototyp vzlétl 21. září roku 1961 a první sériově vyráběné vrtulníky byly dodány koncem roku 1965.

The Boeing CH-47 Chinook is an American twin-engined, tandem rotor, heavy-lift helicopter developed by American rotorcraft company Vertol and manufactured by Boeing Vertol (later known as Boeing Rotorcraft Systems). The CH-47 is among the heaviest lifting Western helicopters. Its name, Chinook, is from the Native American Chinook people of modern-day Washington state.

General characteristics

• Crew: 3 three (pilot, copilot, flight engineer or loadmaster)
• Capacity:
  • 33–55 troops or
  • 24 litters and 3 attendants or
• Payload: 24,000 lb (10,886 kg)
• Length: 98 ft 10 in (30.1 m)
• Fuselage length: 52 ft (15.85 m)
• Fuselage width: 12 ft 5 in (3.78 m)
• Rotor diameter: 60 ft  (18.3 m)
• Height: 18 ft 11 in (5.7 m)
• Disc area: 5,600 ft² (520 m²)
• Empty weight: 24,578 lb (11,148 kg)
• Max. takeoff weight: 50,000 lb (22,680 kg)
• Powerplant: 2 × Lycoming T55-GA-714A turboshaft, 4,733 shp (3,529 kW) each

Performance

• Maximum speed: 170 knots (196 mph, 315 km/h)
• Cruise speed: 160 kt (184 mph, 296 km/h)
• Range: 400 nmi (450 mi, 741 km)
• Combat radius: 200 nmi (230 mi, 370 km)
• Ferry range: 1,216 nmi (1,400 mi, 2,252 km)
• Service ceiling: 20,000 ft (6100 m)
• Rate of climb: 1,522 ft/min (7.73 m/s)
• Disc loading: 9.5 lb/ft² (47 kg/m²)
• Power/mass: 0.28 hp/lb (460 W/kg)

Armament

• Up to 3 pintle-mounted medium machine guns (1 on loading ramp and 2 at shoulder windows), generally 7.62 mm (0.308 in) M240/FN MAG machine guns, and can be armed with the 7.62 mm M134 rotary machine gun

Avionics

• Rockwell Collins Common Avionics Architecture System (CAAS) (MH-47G/CH-47F)

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