Now that's what you call working in extreme conditions, Rotor blade change US Style

[NutLoose]

We would still be calculating the Health and Safety aspects whilst insisiting on full flourescent jackets, hats, tabbards, googles and gloves....

See for more pictures


Boeing CH-47C Chinook 71-20955. (http://www.chinook-helicopter.com/history/aircraft/C_Models/71-20955/71-20955.html)

Oh and before you ask, yes they are changing the Fwd Rotors in situ LOL

http://www.chinook-helicopter.com/history/aircraft/C_Models/71-20955/71-20955_e.jpg

http://www.chinook-helicopter.com/history/aircraft/C_Models/71-20955/71-20955_b.jpg

[talk_shy_tall_knight]

Oh and before you ask, yes they are changing the Fwd Rotors in situ LOL

Oh I see, thanks.

[ZH875]

The mountain top was never intended for a Chinook to land on with all four gear on the ground. Cargo missions to the mountain were usually performed by doing a two wheel landing. During this particular mission the crew decided they could put all four gear on the landing pad.

So it was the crew's fault.........



.....I wonder if they tried to blame the groundcrew for this :mad: up.

[Gainesy]

How they gonna move it before they start it?:)

[Rigga]

Having done Chinny Blade changes many, many times - this scene reminds me of swimming in the sea: It doesn't matter how deep it is below you - you still only use the top few feet.

I still wouldn't like to step too close to the edge of the work platform though!

The photos show just how desperate the whole act was - by having to use that crane! - really desperate indeed.

[effortless]

How they gonna move it before they start it?

Surely you've see the special short ones they use for this kind of situation.:}

[farmpilot]

Having read the text, they got the EOD boys in to remove the mountain.

[fallmonk]

Would it not have been easier to get a CH-54 and lift it out ?
surley the CH-54's where still in service then, and it could lift a Chinook?

[Old Fella]

Gainsey, if you were to read the whole story on the link, you would know the answer to your question. They actually jacked the front up, put plates down and then winched the aircraft back onto the pad to a position where there was sufficient rotor blade clearance.

[mightynimbus]

Well remeber an occasion when one of our old and bold brethren (an ex belfast cocktail barman) auto'ed a scout on to the side of the Moselle valley near Cochum, got grass on the chip basket and the the hot end melted and dribbled out the trouser legs, must have been a good 40 degrees nose up but the LAD changed the engine in situ and the aforemention O&B flew it off later, at night as I recall and then all the way back to Detmold.Wish I had some photo's of that, took b*lls to fly that scout off the hillside!