Boeing Chinook (UK variants)
The Boeing Chinook is a large, tandem rotor helicopter operated by the Royal Air Force (RAF). A series of variants based on the United States Army's Boeing CH-47 Chinook, the RAF Chinook fleet is the largest outside the United States. RAF Chinooks have seen extensive service in the Falklands War, the Balkans, Northern Ireland, Iraq, and Afghanistan.
Boeing Chinook (UK variants)
Two RAF Chinooks on exercises in California
RAF Chinook HC2 in 2009
HC4 landing at Shawbury in 2016
The Boeing CH-47 Chinook is a tandem-rotor helicopter originally developed by American rotorcraft company Vertol and now manufactured by Boeing Defense, Space & Security. The Chinook is a heavy-lift helicopter that is among the heaviest lifting Western helicopters. Its name, Chinook, is from the Native American Chinook people of Oregon and Washington state.
Boeing CH-47 Chinook
HC-1B during in-flight evaluation
CH-47 cockpit view, 2020
Soldiers depart at CH-47 during Operation Masher in 1966