CH-47Cs 213th Avn Co, Korea circa 1987-88,

Uh, I hope I'm not being stupid but am I the only one who doesn't see any pictures?

Chief Snake

Nope, not only you.  Red "X" as well, with the pic title next to it.

HeavyArty wrote:

Nope, not only you.  Red "X" as well, with the pic title next to it.

 

Sorry about that guys, I tried to copy and paste the photos

I sent these photos into the Chinook site a couple of years ago and thought they might be of use to anyone needing a reference as to what real paint jobs on CH-47s look like between trips to the paint shop.

Try the links, these should take you there.

http://www.chinook-helicopter.com/history/aircraft/C_models/67-18520/67-18520.html

and

http://www.chinook-helicopter.com/history/aircraft/C-models/74-2278/74-22278.html

the photo of '520 was taken while hauling rocks on the DMZ

the photo of 278 incorrectly has my rank as SFC, I was a SSG at the time the photo was taken.

 

Jonathan Primm

J.H. Primm wrote:

HeavyArty wrote: Nope, not only you.  Red "X" as well, with the pic title next to it.   Sorry about that guys, I tried to copy and paste the photos I sent these photos into the Chinook site a couple of years ago and thought they might be of use to anyone needing a reference as to what real paint jobs on CH-47s look like between trips to the paint shop. Try the links, these should take you there. http://www.chinook-helicopter.com/history/aircraft/C_models/67-18520/67-18520.html and http://www.chinook-helicopter.com/history/aircraft/C-models/74-2278/74-22278.html the photo of '520 was taken while hauling rocks on the DMZ the photo of 278 incorrectly has my rank as SFC, I was a SSG at the time the photo was taken.   Jonathan Primm

Apparently that doesn't work either.

Disregard until I can figure out how to post photos on this forum

Sorry guys. (he says as he crawls under the desk)

CH-47C 74-22278 213th Avn Co , Camp Humphreys Korea 1987~1988

 

CH-47C 67-18520 213th Avn Co,  Along the DMZ ,1987

CH-47C 74-22278  March or April 1989 during field exercise somewhere east of Seoul

 

J.H. Primm wrote:

CH-47C 74-22278 213th Avn Co , Camp Humphreys Korea 1987~1988

Hey, wow. I think I took that picture!

And I might be wrong, but that shot of 520 flying the external load looks a LOT like those loads we were flying for that big dam the Koreans were building up near, uhhh, Cheunchon, maybe? Remember that mission?  Fly an hour or so to the site, fly about 5 1/2 hrs of slingloads up to these mountain pads, stopping only to get gas and maybe a bite to eat, and then fly home.  At the time, AR 95-1 said max flight time per day for an aircrew in peacetime was 8hrs, and we were getting all of that and then some on those missions.  I seem to recall logging like 8.2, 8.4 on a couple. And just being exhausted as all heck from all that flying.  And they couldn't rig those slings for anything. Rocko Brall lost a load of gravel or something half way up a mountain due to the slings coming undone.  Suddenly he had something like 3000lbs of gravel in 50lb bags raining on the countryside.. Good times!

And that last one of you, Johnny, crikey, you look like you're about 10 years old. :)

I think I need to dig out some screen caps of that video from that band-haul to Pilsung Range where you're dancing around the dance floor doing the "Junior Birdmen/Batman" eye-mask thing.. :)  Talk about embarassing!

Now, to make you guy's feel a little younger, I remember when they tooled around Korea in CH-37's until the first Chinook's arrived in Korea in early 1969

grandadjohn wrote:

Now, to make you guy's feel a little younger, I remember when they tooled around Korea in CH-37's until the first Chinook's arrived in Korea in early 1969

Well, thanks for the attempt! :)

87-90 was actually my fourth trip.

I was first exposed to Korean culture while I was crewing CH-46s, first in 78, then in 79-80, the third time I was there was after I got out of the Marines and joined the Army...1981-1984, and the final trip there was from 94-95.

No, I wasn't around for the '37, but there were several pilots in the company who flew CH-21s there on previous tours.

You mean one like this one, still in use in 1969 until they were replaced by UH-1's in late summer of that year. Spare parts were buried behind our hanger. The USAF also still had a UH-19 also

grandadjohn wrote:

You mean one like this one, still in use in 1969 until they were replaced by UH-1's in late summer of that year. Spare parts were buried behind our hanger. The USAF also still had a UH-19 also

Yeah,

 

A guy that I work with gave me this photo from the early 60s,  he was in what later became the 45th Transportation Company