How the CH-47 Chinook Flies: Read Video Description, Too

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Added: 26-Oct-07

A lot of people wonder how the twin-rotor Chinook gets its directional control without an anti-torque rotor...

Glenn Bloom, an actual Army CH-47 Pilot explains:

http://www.helicopterpage.com/html/tandem.html

This video shows you the entire main rotor masts pivot according to pilot steering inputs. The agile Chinook also needs to be configured into ACH-47 gunships to clear landing zones for light infantry troop and light tank carrying CH-47s as was done in Vietnam with the Guns-A-Go-Go Chinooks with great success.

http://www.geocities.com/usarmyaviationdigest/superchinook.htm

We must avoid being like the V-22 flying deathtrap which cannot even carry any light tanks and lacks adequate self-armament and escorts to do combat air assaults which has relegated them to doing just milk runs for supplies where the Iraqi rebels might not shoot at them to CON Congress and the American people that its multi-billion dollar waste is anything but gyrene and Bell Textron racketeering.

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