Balls of steel!

[bitchstewie]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/video_and_audio/headlin...

[JeremyH5]

Good skills. I think we’ve seen this type of thing before with a Chinook in a combat situation. I’m sure someone will recall it.

[MB140]

There is a video on YouTube of a US Chiny doing a troop pickup off the side of a mountain. Very similar. Just the rear door on the ground the rest of the helicopter hovering. Amazing skills.

Edited to add link

https://youtu.be/aSzeM50B8hI

Edited by MB140 on Sunday 15th July 17:41

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JeremyH5 said:

Good skills. I think we’ve seen this type of thing before with a Chinook in a combat situation. I’m sure someone will recall it.

Its called a pinnacle landing, IANAChinookPilot but my understanding is that most of them train on how to perform it.

[ecsrobin]

The RAF chinook crews practice on Salisbury plain using the tank obstacles.



https://goo.gl/maps/UsNmRduEoVz

[V8 Fettler]

Chinook entered service in the early 1960s, it's lasting well.

[IanH755]

It's amazing that the basic 1950's design of the two back-bones of tactical transport (Herc & Chinook) was so great that they have been able to see virtually continued operational use for so long, requiring only modifications a long the way, rather than a full redesign or being replaced.