[Vhfcn-l] Article about Chinooks incl Gary Roush

[VHFCN1 Pilots and Crew]

What great stories. Gary, what a great job of you and your crew Hook was
definitely a crew aircraft.

Loren
180th ASH Big Windy (RVN ‘69)

On Thu, Aug 29, 2019 at 4:06 PM VHFCN1 Pilots and Crew via Vhfcn-l <
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> Some serious flying there.  We had a Blackhawk try a medevac of some
> climbers on a mountain here in New Mexico a few years ago.  The aircraft
> could not handle it and crashed.  I remember wishing the 160th had been
> here with their Hooks. I expect it would have been a much happier ending.
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> Good article about Chinooks, with stories by those who’ve flown them:
> https://www.airspacemag.com/airspacemag/move-it-180972952/
> The article says the CH-47 first flew in 1961, and first flew in combat in
> 1965.  The article also says the Army plans to employ the Chinook until
> 2060, making it an airframe that will have endured for nearly a century of
> service.
> The first Chinook driver quoted in the article is our own Gary Roush.
> Julie Kinksister of WO David Kink KIA 8-3-1969
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