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An aircrew with the 7th Battalion, 158th Aviation Regiment of New Century, Kansas, operated a CH-47 Chinook helicopter Feb. 7, 2022, at Fort McCoy, Wis., to support sling-load training for the 89B ...
Soldiers from the 1st Air Cavalry Brigade, 1st Cavalry Division, conducted a rare sling load operation July 6, 2011, using a CH-47F Chinook helicopter to transport another Chinook helicopter from ...
Soldiers from the 2nd Armored Brigade Combat Team, 1st Cavalry Division conduct sling load operations with a CH-47 Chinook from the 1st Air Cavalry Brigade Feb 21.
CAMP MOBILE, South Korea — Sling-loading Chinook helicopters to carry supplies to remote areas is a piece of cake, 2nd Infantry Division soldiers here learned last week.
The latest discussions about the Chinook reveal that budget-cutting may be ... 25th Infantry Division worked to train on alternate sling load operations to transport AN/TPQ-50 counterforce ...
Taken on Aug. 15, 2013, the following video shows members of the Iowa Army and Air National Guard “sling loading” a historic U.S. Air Force jet, an A-7K Corsair II, via CH-47F Chinook ...
It was sling-load-palooza. “We haul it all” could be a Chinook unit’s motto. This 159th Aviation Regiment helicopter transports a rigid-hull inflatable full of U.S. Naval Special Warfare crew.
The Special Operations guys have been known to load up to two Humvees (aka HMMWV, ... We all have seen pictures and video of H-47s Chinook helicopters sling loading as many as two Humvees at a ...
A U.S. Army CH-47 moving one of those buildings suffered catastrophic damage when its sling load suddenly ... Five Washington National Guard crew members pose in front of their CH-47 Chinook ...
In tests at Yuma proving grounds it flew with a 1,500 pound load up to 17,000 ft. ... only a Chinook helicopter can lift heavier loads at higher altitudes, said Terry Fogarty, ...
Major Lende said the entire training operation only took 30 minutes, at which point the HMMWV (the "sling load") was back, safe and sound, on Malmstrom Air Force Base after being stuck in the mud ...
Newsweek flew with a Chinook helicopter executing a complex sling load training mission carrying a Small Unit Support Vehicle (SUSV), a tracked all-terrain vehicle.