The fact that the CH-47 has been in operation for 60 years—and remains one of the Army’s most effective helicopters—speaks to ...

We may earn a commission from links on this page. Boy, has Boeing gotten a good return on CH-47 Chinook design. For half a century, these things have been getting the job done for the U.S. Army and ...

Mount Hood, the highest mountain in Oregon, was the scene of a spectacular mission being carried through with help from a massive military CH-47 Chinook helicopter. The mission ended with a ...

What might be the most iconic photo of the Afghanistan war turns 20 years old this week. On Nov. 10, 2003, two pilots in the Pennsylvania National Guard’s 104th Aviation Regiment responded to a call ...

A Royal Australian Navy (RAN) Canberra-class amphibious assault ship has embarked a Republic of Singapore Air Force (RSAF) CH-47 heavy-lift helicopter on its flight deck for the first time, marking a ...

KANDAHAR, Afghanistan - A CH-47 helicopter was forced to make an emergency landing in the Arghandab district in southern Afghanistan Aug. 12 when the helicopter suffered from mechanical errors. The ...

For the third time in four weeks a U.S. military aircraft has participated in the rescue of a civilian in life-threatening circumstances. This time it was in the United States and the incident was a ...

The CH-47 is the U.S. Army’s only heavy-lifter. The newest model, the F, can carry up to 25,000 pounds of people, supplies, or equipment. Through more than 58 years of peace and war, the Boeing Vertol ...

On September 21, 1961, Boeing conducted the first flight of a very strange contraption that would come to be known as the CH-47 Chinook. The helicopter thus turned 60 earlier this week, but the moment ...

An Army Chinook helicopter, not the one pictured, was destroyed in a hard landing in Afghanistan the night of May 24. (Army) A hard landing in Afghanistan took out an Army CH-47 Chinook, a U.S.