Whatever happened to the Chinook HC 3s?
Last heard of being taken back for use by the US Army SOCOM, and thence to be replaced by new MH-47Ds.
Various snippets, all of which are just rumour:
Long delayed delivery due to problems/goalpost changing?
Severe corrosion/water damage while in storage in the USA?
Eventually delivered?
Failed MAR trials at Boscombe Down?
Delivered to Brize for transport back to the USA (except one GI airframe at Odiham and one airframe at Boscombe)?
Never sent back?
Now being scrapped?
Another procurement triumph?
Comments, anyone?