On this day 4 decades ago, the Royal Air Force receives its first Chinook helicopter
http://www.boeing.co.uk/chinook40?sf240237743=1&fbclid=IwAR0F1GCD1qs8Cl9QJHI3C2gcBS80RflFrlUxqF7_2uk1BkL9FkRaC3lI33M
(Photo courtesy of Boeing)
And the rest is history serving Falklands, Beirut, Kuwait...
A January 1974 (draft final) report for the Office of Naval Research, prepared by the Boeing Vertol Company:
http://www.dtic.mil/dtic/tr/fulltext/u2/777988.pdf
boeingvertol
civil aviation
cold war
general aviation
helicopter
helicopters
piasecki aircraft corporation
post-world war ii
remotely piloted vehicle
united states
vertol aircraft corporation
Cutaway drawing of Boeing-Vertol ACH-47 "Armed/Armored Chinook" press photo found on eBay.
Source:
http://www.ebay.com/itm/1965-Boeing-Vertol-Division-Press-Photo-/190704761031?pt=Art_Photo_Images&hash=item2c66e3b8c7
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british army
cold war
great britain
helicopter
jet age
north atlantic treaty organisation
royal air force
royal navy
space age
united states
united states air force
united states army
Hi,
Tucked away in Boeing's rotorcraft presentation at Paris was a small image of something called FASTR - Folding Advanced Stopped Tilt Rotor - a study by Bell Boeing for DARPA and the US Navy...
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cold war
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defense advanced research projects agency
naval aviation
united states navy
v/stol aircraft
vtol
Look for this Boeing VTOL project,we spoke about it before,but they
spoke about the FAAV,may be it was Boeing FAAV.
http://ntrs.nasa.gov/archive/nasa/casi.ntrs.nasa.gov/19910012218_1991012218.pdf
I really ought to know more about this, but we seem to have a couple of people with some rotorcraft experience around these parts, but who knows what about the Boeing 360? It seems to have been discussed here only in passing.
Some stuff from Interavia, 1987...
Because of its origins, the 360...
Hi folks,
today while flicking through magazines at a bookshop near my local train station, I saw a picture of the Boeing Model 222 tilt rotor aircraft featured in an article about the "X-series Aircrafts (Part 19): AD-1 and XV-15" published in the German magazine "Fliegerrevue" Issue 02/08.
At...
Hi,
in Flightglobal site,they spoke about the Boeing Vertol LIT (light intratheatre
transport) a tilt-wing V/STOL cargo aircraft,does anyone know more about it ?.
http://www.flightglobal.com/PDFArchive/View/1970/1970%20-%200235.html?search=Boeing%20LIT%20helicopter
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cold war
early 1970s
late 1960s
military airlift command
transport aircraft
united states
united states air force
v/stol aircraft
vietnam war
vtol
Boeing FTR (Future Transport Rotorcraft) program targets were:
- Replace aging CH-47 fleet
- Deploy Brigade from Fort to Fight in 96 hours
- Carry the Future Combat System Payload of 20 tons in a C130 size box
- Vertical Hover capability
FTR Configuration Options were:
- FTR Advanced Theater...
1999
airborne forces
airmobile
boeingboeingvertol
future combat systems
helicopter
joint heavy lift (united states)
late 1990s
post-cold war
tiltrotor
united states
united states air force
united states army
v/stol aircraft
vtol
we know Boeing-Vertol BV series (BV-107,114,143,145,147,165,
173,176,179,219,227,234,237,298,299,301,307,308,309,347,352,
360 and 414),and I am asking are there anther projects to this company?.
1972 US Army AAH Program : Competition for the Advanced Attack Helicopter was between the Hughes Model 77 (YAH-64) and the Bell 409 (YAH-63).
Other contenders were the Boeing Vertol AAH and the Lockheed CL-1700, a Cheyenne derivative. The Hughes Model 77 was selected and designated the AH-64...
From Flight International 23-29 May 1990
Bell-Boeing Supersonic combat tilt-rotor. Dual-mode engine incorporating folding rotors and employing jet exhausts.
A high speed subsonic version also proposed.
In the same page (29) there is information about US Army beyond LH program for an advanced...
1980s
air superiority
air-land battle 2000
anti-helicopter
anti-tank
battlefield air interdiction
bell helicopter company
bell helicopter textron
boeingvertol
close air support
cold war
early 1990s
ground attack
nuclear battlefield
supersonic
united states
united states army
vtol
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