PPRuNe Forums - View Single Post - Chinooks. Not exactly stealthy, are they?
Old 15th Feb 2024, 13:15
  #19 (permalink)  
chevvron
 
Join Date: Nov 2005
Location: Wildest Surrey
Age: 75
Posts: 10,827
Received 98 Likes on 71 Posts
Originally Posted by Rigga
While they were introduced to Lippitts Hill as ”the quietest in their class” to the local residents, EC145’s were a clattery cacophony on the ground and only slightly noisier than their predecessor AS355Ns. However, once in the air they were quite quiet - especially from below and surprisingly inaudible at observation distances using that nice 15x(?) camera/footstep thingy.
Still not as quiet as the Explorers used by some ambulance helicopters.
chevvron is offline  
The following users liked this post: