Word: chinooks
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...incident began when the crew of the twin-engine CH-47 Chinook apparently lost its way on a routine flight from Camp Humphreys, 40 miles south of Seoul, to a supply depot near the Demilitarized Zone (DMZ). As Presidential Press Secretary Jody Powell later explained, the helicopter's crew seemed to have made "a navigational mistake [and] veered north at the eastern...
...helicopter buzzed over the DMZ, a unit of South Koreans, realizing it was off course, fired their rifles into the air to warn it. The shots may have confused or frightened the Chinook's pilot, Chief Warrant Officer Joseph Miles, 26, who continued to proceed across the well-marked 2.5-mile-wide DMZ into North Korea. There he landed and inspected the aircraft for damage. President Carter later related that Miles then "got back into the helicopter and took off. The North Koreans, who were approaching, apparently shot the helicopter down." Miles, Sergeant Robert Haynes, 29, and Sergeant Ronald...
...testify with your Bonnie Angelo that Southerners never really leave. But I can't go back-until perhaps they improve the ski slopes back home, and the Chinook and steelhead run the Bayou Pierre. The Yankee life has been too good...
...considerably behind sales.) This represents 46% of total world sales. Included were rifles and mortars to Guatemala and Paraguay, supersonic jet fighters to West Germany and Brazil, Sidewinder air-to-air missiles to Italy and South Korea, armored personnel carriers to Jordan and Norway, heavy-duty CH-47 (Chinook) helicopters to Iran, Spain and South Viet Nam, destroyers to Chile, counterinsurgency equipment to the Philippines and C-130 Hercules air transports to Sweden and Zaire...
...lower left): Soviet Union's T-55 battle tank (estimated exports: 14,500), AK-47 combat rifle (225,000), SA-2 ground-to-air missile (8,000) and MIG-21 fighter-bomb er (1,900); the U.S.'s Sidewinder air-to-air missile (12,000), CH-47 Chinook helicopter (309), F-4 Phantom fighter-bomber (1,100), C-130 Hercules transport (230), F-5 fighter-bomber (1,500), A-4 Skyhawk attack fighter (460) and TOW anti-tank missile (12,500); France's Exocet antiship missile (about 800 sold), AMX-30 battle tank (1,000) and Mirage...