Word: chinook
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Irrational Behavior. Santa Ana-like phenomena are not confined to Southern California. Similar hot, dry wind sweeping down mountain slopes is called "foehn" (pronounced, approximately, fain) in Austria and Germany, "chinook" along the U.S. and Canadian Rockies, "sky sweeper" on Majorca, "khamsin" in Israel, and "the Canterbury northwester" in New Zealand...
...Paddies. Considering the exploits of the 1,800 copters already in Viet Nam, it is no wonder. Such choppers as Bell's ubiquitous UH-1B Huey and Vertol's 44-passenger Chinook are able not only to harry the elusive enemy with rocket and strafing attacks but to carry foot soldiers into battle at 150 m.p.h., eliminating bone-wearying marches through flooded paddies and jungles. Four $2,000,000 Sikorsky CH54A Skycranes, which look gawky but can haul 87 men or a field hospital under their bellies, have so far retrieved 100 downed aircraft-$37 million worth...
...them in Viet Nam. Helicopters and trained crews have been plucked from strategic reserve divisions to be pack aged into new units for immediate assignment to Viet Nam. For the long run, the Army has more than doubled its procurement of UH-1B (Huey) and CH-47A (Chinook) helicopters, and is trebling the number of new helicopter pilots it turns out-from 95 a month to 290 by early next year. The Pentagon has also authorized development of a fast new armed helicopter, the first designed exclusively as a weapons ship...
...about four times longer without an overhaul. The most common helicopter in Viet Nam up to now has been the workhorse Huey (the nickname for Bell's UH-1B), but the trend today is toward larger, more powerful craft. Vertol's 44-passenger, turbine-powered Chinook has already gone into service, and the 1st Cavalry Division (Airmobile) is using Sikorsky's turbine-powered CH-54As-or Skycranes-which can carry 87 men or six Jeeps. Because its Hueys were being hit by groundfire, Bell developed an armor-plated HueyCobra with a turbine engine, is hoping for Pentagon...
...ever existed in the history of warfare. Some 3,000 of its men are trained paratroopers, and the rest are expert in heli-assault landings. Its 428 helicopters have doubled the total number of choppers in use in Viet Nam. They range from scores of workaday Hueys to 48 Chinook transport copters with a lift capacity of some 13,000 Ibs., the first to arrive in Viet Nam. Four of the First's helicopters are the only ones of their breed in the world: giant...