Originally Posted by
Asturias56
Chinooks - Iworked in Odiham for a while (notatthe base) and the sound of Chinooks doing circuits was non-stop - but it wasn't too bad. it's low frequency noise TBH
i remember when we first got them and I think it was DW on the Ops desk that took a call from an irate farmer who had asked to be put through to those people with the new helicopters, he complained they were scaring his livestock and was told, well, they better we’ll get used to it as they will be here for the next 40 years…..
The CH-53 makes sense in they operate the type etc all be it an earlier version, but have operational experience, but on this side of the pond one would think the CH 47 would make more sense in NATO inter operability with the U.K., The Netherlands, Italy, Greece and Spain all operating the type, with possibly other countries equipping with them.
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