Noisy new chopper en route to D-M? (Liberal WAAAAAAAAAAA! Anti-Military Alert)

Arizona Daily Star ^ | Carol Ann Alaimo

[SandRat]

New specs

HH-47 CSAR-X* Length: 99 feet; Height: 18 feet Speed: 196 mph; Engines: two Engine size: 7,258 shaft horsepower each Rotors: two main Max. takeoff weight: 55,000 lbs Source: U.S. Air Force * Exact specifications for the HH-47 are not yet available. These statistics are for the Army MH-47G, upon which the HH-47 will be based. Final data may vary slightly.

Old specs

HH-60 Pave Hawk Length: 64 feet, 8 inches Height: 16 feet 8 inches Speed: 184 mph Engines: two Engine size: 1,560 to 1,940 shaft horsepower each Rotors: one main, plus tail rotor Max. takeoff weight: 22,000 lbs

[SandRat]

Sheesh! What a bunch of Cry-Babies.

[the invisib1e hand]

how's it look?

[Windcatcher]

I'm sure the hundreds of Boeing workers who will have jobs putting this baby together GIVE A RAT'S BEHIND about how some lib reporterette feels about it's noise. Really.

[cripplecreek]

The life flight Helicopter out of UofM hospital is one of the noisiest I've ever heard and I doubt too many people complain much about that.

[M. Dodge Thomas]

how's it look?

http://www.boeing.com/rotorcraft/military/hh47/index.html

[Brad’s Gramma]

A civic committee that studied ways to reduce noise from D-M recently recommended that the base look at changing some of its flight routes to funnel more helicopter traffic over Interstate 10, away from more populated areas.

What a bunch of wusses.

[Windcatcher]

Considering that I live a whole three miles from where they make Chinooks, you might think I would have the biggest reason to complain. The truth is, they're not *that* loud. If we stop what we're doing when they fly over, it's because we want to see something that we know will be cool.

[Windcatcher]

Yeah, baby.

[IllumiNaughtyByNature]

In a follow up report, Boeing will be issuing a pair of these to each of the granola-munching, booger eaters.

[School of Rational Thought]

Basically it is the same helicopter Beoing has been building for 50 years with updates.

[cripplecreek]

I love the sound of all our military aircraft and don't get to hear them enough her in southern Mi. To me it's the sound of security.

[SandRat]

Well,... when DesertCoyote saw it all put together but as yet unstained and unvarnished she said; "Dad,... you know you're gonna get breath SQUEEZED Right out of you by Rebecca don't you?

And it looks even better now.

Window bench seat
22" high
60" long
18" wide
with an 18" X 60" shelf to store things.

Specifically designed to be a kit for easy transport requiring only a Phillips screwdriver and an adjustable wrench to put together in its finished form.

[SandRat]

LOLOLOLOLOL I answered the wrong question! LOLOLOLOLOL

This is the real answer to your qquestion

[Severa]

Chinooks aren't loud. LOUD is the time I was standing on a pier at NAS Norfolk and had a C5 fly over on final approach to Chambers Field, which is only a mile (if that) from the base. THAT'S loud. *LOL*

[sgtbono2002]

People who live around Military bases love the jobs they bring in, they love the Fed payments to local schools, They love improved roads and services, then they complain about noise.

[SandRat]

Paint it to look like a Military Brid and they would.

[rabidralph]

...troops who have been shot down or otherwise become stranded in hostile territory [such as San Francisco].

[Fury]

Chinooks aren't loud. LOUD is the time I was standing on a pier at NAS Norfolk and had a C5 fly over on final approach to Chambers Field, which is only a mile (if that) from the base. THAT'S loud. *LOL*

Try being in the wheel-well of a B-52G (H are quieter) during an engine run. Your bones vibrate!

[Jeff Chandler]

This would have come in handy for search and rescue during the Rondney King Riots.