Chinook 3 ship formation, with a difference

[coldbuffer]

Any PPRuNer's involved in the recovery of this Chinook 22/12/87 at Gutersloh?

[ancientsoul]

This is what it looked like from outside the fence:

via sg-etuo.de ZA704/BJ is seen here with rotorblades and engines removed for transport back to Gütersloh by fellow Chinook ZA670/BG after hitting a powerline in the area near Paderborn. Chinook ZD984/BE escorted the two others as observer aircraft.

[oldbeefer]

Have a feeling that was the one that had a mega wirestrick in the 'playpen' to the south of Gut. I was on 230 at the time.

[Tiger_mate]

Argh; that valley. "Right Bloggs, tell me when you see the wires" ** demo to all new Gut crewmembers. IIRC Jim L was one of the crewmen, and it was probably a beefer in the LHS.

**In mitigation, the wires were a ba****d to see when you knew where to look.

[NutLoose]

oldbeefer

Have a feeling that was the one that had a mega wirestrick in the 'playpen' to the south of Gut. I was on 230 at the time.

So you don't feel left out Oldbeefer

[KG86]

Chinook 3-Ship Formation

Yes, I remember the Chinook lift well. I was flying a fourth Chinook, and it was my task to recover a large truck, full of equipment and trackway, which was left behind after the downed Chinook was lifted out from its field. I used more torque to lift the truck than the other cab used to lift the Chinook!

The nav in the LHS of said Chinook when it hit the wires was tragically killed many months later, in a Chinook accident at Hanover Airport.

[chinook240]

The ac captain was not a beefer at the time, in fact he has just recently left my unit, although he did go on to become one. The LHS was the aforementioned nav.

[NutLoose]

Slightly drifting off thread, Chinook240 is that 240 as in the OCU of old?

If it is, I left in about 82 on posting to Germany having been on the Chinook OCU more or less from the start, you haven't by any chance seen my signed Chinook leaving print they were supposed to forward on to me, or do you think that after 28 years I should give up waiting for it??

[chinook240]

It certainly was. I was only a stude in 81 but was on the staff later - so don't hassle me for leaving prints!

We're going to reform 240 OCU when the Chinnies and Puma get together at Benson in a couple of years.

[oldbeefer]

Nutloose

Thanks for that!

[cornish-stormrider]

The pic of chinny carrying the flying transit......

is that circa 2002-3?
If so I was in the crowd watching it come back. I remember the day well, a crew did a sim engine failure, landed ok and then decided to park the cab in the field LHS down.

D'oh!. Still I was glad all were ok I remember chatting to the loadie who said as it rolled over he just walked up the wall.

Fly safe y'all

[chinook240]

Both pics on this thread are of Mk 1 ac and therefore are all pre-95. The original video was 22/12/87.

[NutLoose]

It certainly was. I was only a stude in 81 but was on the staff later - so don't hassle me for leaving prints!

We're going to reform 240 OCU when the Chinnies and Puma get together at Benson in a couple of years.

I thought the norm was to call everything Reserve Squadrons and shuffle them about such as 20 Sqn(R) becoming 4 Sqn(R) therefore hiding from the public how small the RAF really is these days.. Still remember when we split the first time and the Wessex went to Benson leaving the Pumas and those of us that transferred over to the Chinook.



Still more or less fresh off the boat

[chinook240]

Looks very much like C* R***** in the 2nd shot, with the Chinny in 240 OCU colours. No SDS or other crap hanging off it, so yes straight off the boat.

[NutLoose]

Yep had about 100 hours on it, if that, towel rail was still between the windows and it's sporting tin blades..

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