# Extreme Chinook Helicopter Landing

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/extreme-chinook-helicopter-landing/563210>\
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [December 6, 2010, 11:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/extreme-chinook-helicopter-landing/563210 "2010-12-06T23:04:56Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![UncleRojelio](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/unclerojelio/32/3160_2.png) [@UncleRojelio](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/UncleRojelio)\
**Post date:** [December 8, 2010, 7:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/extreme-chinook-helicopter-landing/563210/21 "2010-12-08T19:15:57Z")

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> [@Ravenman](#):
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> I like this one. No screw ups here.

Yeah but throw in just the right wave at just the right time to dip that rear rotor. Yikes.

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**Author:** ![Leo\_Bloom](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/leo_bloom/32/10377_2.png) [@Leo\_Bloom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leo_Bloom)\
**Post date:** [February 5, 2014, 4:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/extreme-chinook-helicopter-landing/563210/22 "2014-02-05T16:30:58Z")

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Hi guys, just a bump because a similar thread, with perhaps a tinier focus, just started [here](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=714980).  
Come over.

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**Author:** ![txtumbleweed](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/278dde/32.png) [@txtumbleweed](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/txtumbleweed)\
**Post date:** [February 5, 2014, 5:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/extreme-chinook-helicopter-landing/563210/23 "2014-02-05T17:28:35Z")

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> [@UncleRojelio](#):
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> Sometimes, [even Chinook pilots screw up](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z8jJls6Wujo&feature=related).
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> While searching for this one I came across several others that were very cool. Try searching youtube for “chinook water landing”.

That’s not a Chinook, it’s a CH-46 [Sea Knight](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:CH-46_Sea_Knight_Helicopter.jpg).

Pinnacle approaches aren’t uncommon, a Chinook pilot described it to me as a very low hover with the back gear touching. The weight is never really off the rotors.

And IIRC, the Chinook is designed to float for about an hour. Its fuel tanks are those large bulges on the fuselage and provide plenty of buoyancy.

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