Boeing Chinook heavy-lift transport helicopter fleet will see a temporary, yet significant, reduction in numbers over the ...

Technically, there is no official replacement for the Boeing CH-47 yet under US Army development. Significant progress on the Sikorsky UH-60 Black Hawk’s successor has taken place in recent years, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. WASHINGTON ­— The U.S. Army is nearing a final decision on whether and how much to invest in Chinook Block II helicopter upgrades, ...

For decades, the Chinook has been the workhorse of the British military, flying soldiers and equipment into battle.

Boeing is bringing autonomy to one of the world’s most proven and enduring heavy-lift helicopters, the CH-47 Chinook, as part of a broader effort to modernize the aircraft for the future battlefield.

Helicopters have been around since before the Second World War when Igor Sikorsky took his VS-300 in the skies over Connecticut. Decades of evolution have made these machines incredibly reliable and ...

Helicopters are, by design, kind of quirky aircraft, but on the scale of strangeness there's nothing more so than the CH-47 Chinook, the so-called king of pinnacle landings. And not even the most ...

"The Army goal is to allow the helicopter, which was first produced in the early 1960s, to serve all the way into the 2060s" The Army plans to fly its Vietnam-era workhorse CH-47 Chinook cargo ...

In a move that elected officials say could keep the assembly line at the Boeing plant in Ridley Park, Penn., busy for 20 years, the U.S. Army has canceled a proposed attack helicopter by rivals ...