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• MOD Announces Plan for 22 New Battle-Winning Chinooks

  
  DefenceTalk | Defense & Military News - Forums - Pictures - Weapons — Authority: 564
  The Ministry of Defence will give a major boost to the military helicopter fleet with 22 new Chinook helicopters, the Defence Secretary Bob Ainsworth announced today. The first ten new Chinooks will start to roll off the production line in 2012 and be completed in 2013 increasing air support on the front-line in ...
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• Ministry of Defence Announces Plan for 22 New Chinook Helicopters

  
  Net News Publisher — Authority: 448
  The Ministry of Defence will give a major boost to the military helicopter fleet with 22 new Chinook helicopters, the Defence Secretary Bob Ainsworth has announced. The first ten new Chinooks will start to roll off the production line in 2012 and be completed in 2013 increasing air support on the front-line in ...
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• UK defence budget cuts will hit BAE

  
  Daily Telegraph | Telegraph.co.uk — Authority: 967
  Defence budget cuts to pay for 22 new Chinook helicopters for Afghanistan will hurt Britains biggest defence manufacturer, BAE Systems.
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• If You Don’t Like the Weather, Just Wait…It Will Change

  
  Life on a Colorado Farm — Authority: 460
  We went from this (driving home Friday night) and this to more snow on Saturday to a  Chinook Wind on Sunday. With really nice temperatures. And it’s warmer today.  Welcome to Western Colorado weather! Linda Posted in Life on a Colorado Farm Tagged: Chinook, weather in Colorado, ...
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• Turkey to Acquire CH-47F CHINOOK Helicopters

  
  DefenceTalk | Defense & Military News - Forums - Pictures - Weapons — Authority: 564
  WASHINGTON: The Defense Security Cooperation Agency notified Congress December 7 of a possible Foreign Military Sale to Turkey of 14 CH-47F CHINOOK Helicopters, as well as associated parts, equipment, training and logistical support for a complete package worth approximately $1.2 billion. The Government of the Turkey ...
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• The Chinook

  
  MetaFilter — Authority: 732
  Forecast calls for cold and warm. On January 22, 1943 in Spearfish, SD: The temperature rose 49 degrees in two minutes, from – 4 to 45; later the same morning, it dropped 60 degrees in 27 minutes, from 56° to - 4°. Plate glass windows cracked as a result of the wild fluctuation in temperatures caused by Chinook ...
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• Those we have lost… Iraq and Afghanistan

  
  Herobracelets — Authority: 138
  We upload names from the DOD every week. Sgt James M Dorsey    Beardstown, IL    Army     2/8/09    I    M Spc Christopher P Sweet    Kahului, HI    Army     2/6/09    I    M Sgt Darrell L Fernandez    Truth or Consequences, NM    Army     1/31/09    I    M Chief ...
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• Obama to send more troops, seek Afghanistan exit (Reuters)

  
  Blogger — Authority: 167
  Reuters – President Barack Obama said on Tuesday he is sending 30,000 more U.S. troops to Afghanistan by next summer to speed the battle against the Taliban and plans to start bringing some home in 18 months. Original post: (Reuters)"> (Reuters)">Obama to send more troops, seek Afghanistan exit ...
  2 weeks ago

• U.K. Military Ready to Increase Troop Levels in Afghanistan

  
  Net News Publisher — Authority: 448
  The Chief of the Defence Staff, Air Chief Marshal Sir Jock Stirrup, has confirmed to the Prime Minister that the military have all the equipment they need to commit additional troops to Afghanistan. The Prime Minister has said that increasing the number of British personnel in Afghanistan would happen only if ...
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• Des Browne: very unusual retiral statement from a former Defence Secretary

  
  For Argyll — Authority: 487
  Des Browne, the Westminster politician who represents Kilmarnock and Loudoun has announced that he is standing down at the next General Election.Browne is the man who found himself carrying a double brief at cabinet level: Secretary of State for Defence and Secretary of State for Scotland.Prime Minister, Gordon Brown, ...
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• U.S. Shifted Pakistan Terror Leaders To Afghanistan

  
  Pak Alert Press — Authority: 583
  LAHORE: General (retd) Mirza Aslam Beg has alleged that the US has shifted Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) chief Hakimullah Mehsud and the other Taliban leadership to Afghanistan.In an interview, Aslam Beg said when the Pakistan Army started the operation in South Waziristan, a helicopter flew from the Bagram Airbase ...
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• The Kopp-Etchells Effect

  
  MetaFilter — Authority: 732
  Stunning pictures by Michael Yon show what happens when helicopters land in dust storms: The Kopp-Etchells Effect is thought to be the result of static electricity created by friction as materials of dissimilar material strike against each other, in this case titanium/nickel blades moving through the air and dust, ...
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• Syma’s Micro Chinook Cargo Transport3 is one controlled R/C helicopter

  
  Coolest Gadgets — Authority: 688
  I was at the mall the other day with my kids and I spotted a few people playing with a tiny remote control helicopter with twin rotors. I was surprised at the control that it had, and even though they wouldn’t let customers play with them, I could buy them if I wanted to. I believe that the booth was ...
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• What’s Up With All the Military Helicopters Above San Francsico These Days?

  
  San Francisco Citizen — Authority: 482
  It would have been hard to miss a giant twirlypopper like this twin-engine, tandem rotor, heavy-lift Boeing-Vertol CH-47 Chinook (I’ll say it’s a CH-47D, just because) over Civic Center’s United Nations Plaza yesterday. Mmmm. And, it’s not alone up there – there are other military birds above us as well ...
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• Polar Bear Tatqiq: Arctic Ambassador!

  
  San Diego Zoo Blogs — Authority: 492
  As fall has come, so has quiet to the Conrad Prebys Polar Bear Plunge . The management yard is being well used by Chinook. She certainly has her routine down: greet Tatqiq and Kalluk over the moat, find treats, eat treats, dip in pool, roll in dirt, completely cover entire body except for the white fur around eyes, ...
  4 weeks ago

• Give the Gift of Experience This Holiday Season

  
  Portland Center Stage — Authority: 125
  The Green Gift Guide Gift-giving may take a different form this year, and the Chinook Book Green Gift Guide aims to help Portland-area residents shop locally, give experiences and save money. A partnership of the Portland Arts Coalition and Chinook Book , the guide is available free in print and digitally at ...
  4 weeks ago

• sunset front

  
  Mindful Seeing — Authority: 128
  a strong chinook built up over the city for the last day or so, and this standing front held its position right overhead for most of the day.
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• RAF Chinooks At Heart of Afghan Campaign

  
  DefenceTalk | Defense & Military News - Forums - Pictures - Weapons — Authority: 564
  RAF Chinooks are engaged in some of the most audacious and difficult aviation operations the UK has ever conducted, according to Chinook Force Commander, Group Captain Andrew Turner. Because of its versatility the current Chinook Force is operating at full stretch, says Gp Capt Turner, with both crewmen and ...
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