“They’re still making Chinooks? You would think they would have come up with something better by now.”
Aw now Big Windy is a solid piece of machinery
The new “F” model is for all intents and purposes an all new helicopter capable carrying a heavier payload farther, faster, and at higher altitudes.
New designs come and go, but occasionally one comes along that is good enough to withstand the test of time. The late Frank Piasecki’s tandem rotor concept is one of them, hard to beat for everything you mentioned. Long live the “Happy Hooker”.