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This Is Our First Look At A CH-47 Chinook With Super Powerful T408 Engines
Apicture has emerged of a Boeing CH-47 Chinook helicopter fitted with a pair of powerful General Electric T408 engines. The company had said in May that it was preparing to flight test a Chinook equipped with these engines, which are the same ones found on Sikorsky's troubled, but immensely powerful CH-53K King Stallion.
The official Twitter account for the U.S. Army's Combat Capabilities Development Command's Aviation and Missile Center, which is situated at Redstone Arsenal in Huntsville, Alabama, posted a shot of the rear of the modified helicopter, which has the tail number 067, on the social media site on Nov. 12, 2019. The Tweet also included a view of the same helicopter from the front, but taken at a different time when it had no engines installed at all.
"A CH-47F with T408s had the potential to be significantly more capable than the helicopter in its existing configuration, which already has very good speed, payload, and hot-and-high performance. The General Electric engines each produce 7,500 shaft horsepower (SHP), around 2,500 SHP more than the T55-GA-714As on standard F models. Boeing has said that the Block II CH-47Fs will already have increased performance compared to the original F variants even without the new engines.
https://www.intelligent-aerospace.c...generation-t55-engine-for-chinook-helicopters"
Honeywell and U.S Army to demo next-generation T55 engine for Chinook helicopters
The new 6,000-horespower engine is 25% more powerful and consumes 10% less fuel than the current T55.
If it were me choosing, I choose the new T55 engine because its pretty much similar engine with no major modifications. Combine with Block 2 upgrades, Chinook will fly well for many decades to come.
This Is Our First Look At A CH-47 Chinook With Super Powerful T408 Engines
Apicture has emerged of a Boeing CH-47 Chinook helicopter fitted with a pair of powerful General Electric T408 engines. The company had said in May that it was preparing to flight test a Chinook equipped with these engines, which are the same ones found on Sikorsky's troubled, but immensely powerful CH-53K King Stallion.
The official Twitter account for the U.S. Army's Combat Capabilities Development Command's Aviation and Missile Center, which is situated at Redstone Arsenal in Huntsville, Alabama, posted a shot of the rear of the modified helicopter, which has the tail number 067, on the social media site on Nov. 12, 2019. The Tweet also included a view of the same helicopter from the front, but taken at a different time when it had no engines installed at all.
"A CH-47F with T408s had the potential to be significantly more capable than the helicopter in its existing configuration, which already has very good speed, payload, and hot-and-high performance. The General Electric engines each produce 7,500 shaft horsepower (SHP), around 2,500 SHP more than the T55-GA-714As on standard F models. Boeing has said that the Block II CH-47Fs will already have increased performance compared to the original F variants even without the new engines.
https://www.intelligent-aerospace.c...generation-t55-engine-for-chinook-helicopters"
Honeywell and U.S Army to demo next-generation T55 engine for Chinook helicopters
The new 6,000-horespower engine is 25% more powerful and consumes 10% less fuel than the current T55.
If it were me choosing, I choose the new T55 engine because its pretty much similar engine with no major modifications. Combine with Block 2 upgrades, Chinook will fly well for many decades to come.
