US Army completes trials of the Chinook using Sea Stallion Engines with 5000 more SHP
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US Army completes trials of the Chinook using Sea Stallion Engines with 5000 more SHP
US Army completes trials of the Chinook using Sea Stallion Engines with 5000 more Shaft Horses, though it's not yet part of the planned upgrade, see
https://www.janes.com/defence-news/n...allion-engines
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US Army completes trials of the Chinook using Sea Stallion Engines with 5000 more Shaft Horses, though it's not yet part of the planned upgrade, see
https://www.janes.com/defence-news/n...allion-engines
https://www.janes.com/defence-news/n...allion-engines
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What a pity I'm not allowed to post my photo of a broken Chinook engine mounting. It seems I must carry on posting garbage until I get past the 10 posts barrier or whatever it is. A rum do indeed.
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I once had a high performance car that was tuned until it had ~60% more BHP than it had leaving the factory, everything went fine until I was accelerating in second gear one day and there was a horrendous banging like a machine gun firing underneath the car. The torque had snapped the gearbox mount and it was thrashing against the floor pan.
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If you read the blurb it says it’s up rated as part of the upgrade coming out, makes sense, get everything ready to allow a “simple” upgrade.
Though not part of the Block 2 upgrade that is geared at reinstating lift capacity that has been lost over recent years as more mission equipment has been installed on to the helicopter, the improved Block 2 drivetrain combined with the T408 engine could be an alternate means of achieving the same effect.
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Cool, thought they flew it with the King Stallion T408 engines....while back at Fort Eustis
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HjJTYTxDtQ4
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Larger pictures of it and more information on the modifications and beefing up of the structures involved.
https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zon...the-first-time
https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zon...l-t408-engines
https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zon...the-first-time
https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zon...l-t408-engines