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To: Oberon
"...and that does make me wonder how many big guns you could crowd onto a Chinook."

Spent 15 years building, repairing, and testing Chinook gas turbines (T-55s) - engines had plenty of giddy-up!
But still slow as all hell compared to a C-130.

32 posted on 01/31/2014 9:22:23 AM PST by Psalm 73 ("Gentlemen, you can't fight in here - this is the War Room".)
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To: Psalm 73
But still slow as all hell compared to a C-130.

Is that really a problem if you're flying CAS?

36 posted on 01/31/2014 10:40:15 AM PST by Oberon (John 12:5-6)
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