Word: chinook
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...stuff of fantasy: a charming prince arrives at his girlfriend's rural English estate, swooping in on his trusty steed. But when Prince William flew a Royal Air Force Chinook helicopter to Kate Middleton's garden earlier this month, he should have known that his romantic gesture wouldn't lead to a fairytale ending. Rather than emerging as the knight in shining armor, William has drawn criticism for his personal use of military craft and reopened a controversy in Britain about his and his brother's privileged role in the armed forces during a time...
...field next to Middleton's house in the county of Berkshire. The Ministry of Defense says the trip was part of a training mission designed to help teach the Prince, who is on a brief detachment to the air force from the army, to fly in combat situations. The Chinook, a $20 million twin-rotor helicopter, has been a mainstay for combat troop transport since the Vietnam...
...Dreams" promotion that drew tens of thousands of visitors. But it is not exactly a cherished local landmark. Despite its claims of green construction, area activists fought it, fearful that it would upset the delicate environmental balance in an area that contains an important aquifer and streams favored by Chinook salmon...
...safest way would have been for Bush to fly on one of two U.S. Chinook helicopters to cover the short distance from Jerusalem to the Palestinian headquarters of President Mahmoud Abbas in Ramallah. But fog rolled into the Judean hills on Thursday, grounding the Chinooks. Instead, Bush set off by road in his serpentine 45-car motorcade riding in one of many identical bomb-proof limousines. The convoy sped by refugee camps and bounced over potholed roads to Abbas's compound. Meanwhile, a senior Israeli police official told TIME that Israel Special Forces and an emergency medical team were...
When I returned to New Orleans a few weeks after the storm, I toured the devastated areas on a National Guard Chinook helicopter with other members of the newly formed Louisiana Recovery Authority. Seated next to me, tears in her eyes, was Sarah Usdin, who had been a member of Teach for America and then its executive director in Greater New Orleans. In addition to creating a corps of young teachers, the organization has become, in its 17 years, a wellspring of leadership talent. Its alumni go on to become education entrepreneurs, administrators and activists. Sarah is an example...