CH-47 performing emergency landing with missing rear wheels

[Reschke]

This is pretty cool. I was surfing around showing my my middle son helicopters and him showing me what he wants to build as a model over the summer.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6LAEw7dEcxg&feature=related

[ToeTag]

Stiff breeze and you might of had Jelly on the runway.  Ballsy stuff!

[Karnak]

Very nice flying.

[fbEagle]

Americans. We may not be the smartest but we sure know how to change a tire! 

[Reschke]

I thought it was one heck of a jack they tossed up under that bird. My cousins husband is a crew chief on the MH-47 and goes to the 'Stan quite a bit with a secretive bunch of fellows that carry some other secretive guys and he says he knows the crew who drove that bird. Apparently the wheel came off when they were taxing back in from a mission in 2004 (not his current unit though) and they had to hover about 20 feet up while the ground crew got the items out for them to land.

[ozrocker]

Nice vid. Chinooks were the ones that made me a little nervous whenever my Platoon was
lifted. They vibrate like crazy, and you can watch steady drips from Hydraulic lines.
We used to call'em chithooks.


                                                                            <S> Oz

[redcatcherb412]

Amen Oz, in over 20 heliborne missions, two were in ch47's.  Those were the noisest, rattliest machines ever made. Sitting in the door in a Huey with feet on the skids was quieter, plus felt much safer.

Nice vid. Chinooks were the ones that made me a little nervous whenever my Platoon was
lifted. They vibrate like crazy, and you can watch steady drips from Hydraulic lines.
We used to call'em chithooks.


                                                                            <S> Oz

[ozrocker]

LOL, word got changed to watermelon hooks, but you know what it is supposed to say.



                                                                                              <S> Oz

[Vudu15]

Well it goes with 47s if they ain't leakin don't get on em, complete opposite for 60s if they are leakin don't get on em. Or if you see the crewchief walk away from the bird and not come back.

[ebfd11]

When I was stationed in Okinawa Japan we had a collision between two 47's in the NTA one bird went down with 12 souls on board. The other bird flew crippled back into Futenma with the nose landing gear chopped off. The pilot landed the bird on the rear wheels and the Crash crew was able to place a stack of pallets under the nose gear and he made a proper landing. That was scary because the crew members from the bird that went down were  getting ready to rotate to the states.

That was my first encounter out of crash school I had with an accident with a helicopter but not the last.

Lawndart

[ScottyK]

Nice vid. Chinooks were the ones that made me a little nervous whenever my Platoon was
lifted. They vibrate like crazy, and you can watch steady drips from Hydraulic lines.
We used to call'em watermelonhooks.


                                                                            <S> Oz

 if the hydraulic lines are leaking, wouldn't that mean everything is working?

[Puma44]

 if the hydraulic lines are leaking, wouldn't that mean everything is working?

That just means you haven't run out of hydraulic fluid.........yet.