40 Years of RAF Chinook

[Ravendriver2008]

4 decades ago on this day Boeing delivered the first Chinook to the RAF.

http://www.boeing.co.uk/chinook40?sf240 ... kRaC3lI33M

But if one looks back decade and half earlier, the late Eric Winkle Brown went to Boeing Philadelphia to fly the YCh-47A in 1962 time as MoD wee looking at heavy lift requirements and possible purchase in late 60s. The Sikorsky S-65/ CH-53A was also looked at considered ...

Cheers

[slogen51]

Good spot

IF and it's a big if they were delivered in serial order the first one was ZA670 , last noted by FC with ZA707 on 26/11/2019 near Ashford Kent - crossing the channel?

ZA707 has been noted recently on SBS but ZA670 hasn't been noted for a year.

[Blackcat1]

Happy 40th! Keep on Wokking!!!

[Mike]

Has anyone seen ZA718 (ex 'Bravo November' and the sole survivor of the Atlantic Conveyor sinking by the Argies) recently?

[FlyingFairy]

Has anyone seen ZA718 (ex 'Bravo November' and the sole survivor of the Atlantic Conveyor sinking by the Argies) recently?

Mike,

The October issue of MAR report it under conversion to Mk6 standard with Boeing at Boscombe.

I can’t find any reports of it flying since it returned from the Falklands by boat in July 2017.

FF

[Vulcanone]

So HC.1/HC.2/HC.4/HC.4A and soon to be HC.6 not a bad career

[hedgerowops]

It would be interesting to know how much of it is original.

[Vulcanone]

Well the plaque inside it should still be there

[Vulcanone]

Tribute to the pilot in the Falklands that is

[Mike]

The October issue of MAR report it under conversion to Mk6 standard with Boeing at Boscombe.

I can’t find any reports of it flying since it returned from the Falklands by boat in July 2017.

FF

Thanks FF, Scramble says the same regarding the upgrade and has a last noted date of 07/20, hopefully it shouldn't be too long before it's airborne again.

[Seahornet1]

It would be interesting to know how much of it is original.

Well, it's definitely had a new co-pilot's door fitted...

[martin condon]

After all it's upgrades over the years it's probably more like "Trigger's brush" with just the serial being original.

[Yammer]

The first two I appear to have logged were at Fleetlands open day on 13th June 1981 with ZA675 coded "FI" of 240 OCU plus uncoded ZA679 - somewhere I have slides of them

[tornado17]

Good spot

IF and it's a big if they were delivered in serial order the first one was ZA670 , last noted by FC with ZA707 on 26/11/2019 near Ashford Kent - crossing the channel?

ZA707 has been noted recently on SBS but ZA670 hasn't been noted for a year.

I have it on good authority that ZA672 was the first to be delivered to the RAF in the UK. This was also the one involved the incident at Hannover Airport (rotors hit a building if memory serves me right) in 1988.

[tornado17]

[quote=Mike post_id=<a href="tel:1246146">1246146</a> time=<a href="tel:1606072581">1606072581</a> user_id=56]
Has anyone seen ZA718 (ex 'Bravo November' and the sole survivor of the Atlantic Conveyor sinking by the Argies) recently?

Mike,

The October issue of MAR report it under conversion to Mk6 standard with Boeing at Boscombe.

I can’t find any reports of it flying since it returned from the Falklands by boat in July 2017.

FF
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The October issue of MAR report it under conversion to Mk6 standard with Boeing at Boscombe.

I can’t find any reports of it flying since it returned from the Falklands by boat in July 2017.

FF

Thanks FF, Scramble says the same regarding the upgrade and has a last noted date of 07/20, hopefully it shouldn't be too long before it's airborne again.

Apparently, they’ve found a major fault on it requiring repair so it might be some time before we see it again.

[Velvet Glove]

https://youtu.be/Yi43WHH_BP0