Boeing-Vertol CH-47 "Chinook" helicopter - development history, photos, technical data. In September 1958, the US Army commissioned Boeing Vertol to develop a medium transport helicopter capable of lifting a 2000kg load in all weathers. Boeing submitted a scaled-up version of its Model 107, and the new Model 114 project, the first in the very.. Through more than 58 years of peace and war, the Boeing Vertol CH-47 Chinook has performed as a modern army's lifeline, a status even its builders couldn't have envisioned when it first took.

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The CH-47 Chinook is a descendent of the banana-shaped Piasecki helicopter designs of the 1940s and 1950s, such as the H-21. Frank Piasecki's company was renamed Vertol in 1956 and acquired by The Boeing Company in 1960. The first CH-47A Chinook for the U.S. Army entered service in 1962, and the type was widely used in Vietnam.. Media in category "Boeing-Vertol CH-47 Chinook in the Vietnam War". The following 120 files are in this category, out of 120 total. 101st Field Battery gunners unload a pack howitzer from a CH-47 at Nui Dat.jpg 639 × 442; 149 KB. 176 Air Despatch Company soldier instructs CH-47 delivering bladders of diesel fuel to Night Defence Position Garth.