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Chinook Northern Ireland

A Chinook unloading sandbags during operation Loren, Fermangh,Northern Ireland.
These are beasts to be underneath - I got blown over with half a dozen blokes waiting to board on Thetford Training Area - bloody noisy too!
 
They say that the down force from a Chinook is over 100 mph. There is a report saying that a number of years ago the down force for one knocked over a ISO container in the Falklands, killing a member of the ground crew.
 
I was told in the hover it had a downdraught of 50 mph and you could hear it from at least 5 miles away.
 

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