Originally Posted by
SASless
I carried 138 Rice Pickers plus our crew of 5 in an A Model Chinook....Vietnamese rice farmers are short and skinny ....most with the black pajamas and bare feet. The old girl would have not have gone far if we had lost an engine!
The loading technique was Troop seats folded...pack the cabin full...keep the Ramp level....load it to capacity...taxi forward and jam on the brakes and raise the Ramp.
HSE folks would have had conniption fits!
Chinooks seem to be good at that. Was it not estimated that BN lifted 80 fully equipped Paras by similar method during the Falklands contratemps?