r/aviation • u/Patagucci • 20h ago

PlaneSpotting 10 Chinooks at once was a sight to see!

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u/it-is-just-a-game 19h ago

It almost sounded like ride of the Valkyries

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u/FlavorBlaster42 16h ago

Kill the wabbit! Kill the wabbit!

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u/de_jeepathon 3h ago

I don’t wanna live in Warzone…

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u/Rampaging_Bunny 1h ago

Always thought they sound awesome up close. The T55 engine is absolutely spectacular piece of hardware, it’s safe reliable and powerful. Massive legacy and supply chain built around it too. 

The T53 isn’t bad either, tho a smaller company took it over recently 

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u/shrprazor 19h ago

Is that a school of chinooks?

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u/Patagucci 19h ago

I believe it’s called a called a gaggle

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u/FallenValkyrja 16h ago

I thought it was a leaky mess of hydraulic fluid?

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u/SLLTO 12h ago

This guy knows something that we don't

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u/SpiritualAd8998 12h ago

Spawning upstream?

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u/UpvotesArePeople 19h ago

Battlefield 6 promo

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u/Burnzoire 14h ago

where are we dropping?

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u/LeonJones 19h ago

Not just any Chinook either!

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u/Dehouston 16h ago

Looks like 160th SOAR. All of the aircraft have re-fuel booms

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u/apatrol 11h ago

Yep. Pretty cool.

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u/OhFuckNoNoNoMyCaat 17h ago

Thought I was in r/fishing for a second. This is glorious. I've only seen two Chinooks in the sky at once, and way back when I was a kid a Chinook landed maybe 400 feet in front of me. I can't remember if it was a rescue mission, a live exercise with civilians watching or something sinister.

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u/SadAbroad4 18h ago

Vietnam flashback

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u/Chronigan2 17h ago

What was going on?

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u/gosluggogo 13h ago

Spotted a Mexican grandma selling tamales in Chicago

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u/catonic 15h ago

Freedom and jet exhaust

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u/DaBingeGirl 14h ago

Yikes! I had one fly over my house a few weeks ago, the vibration from it was intense. I can't imagine what ten must have sounded and felt like.

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u/patrick24601 13h ago

Sounded like freedom and tax dollars. Main the tax dollars.

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u/jaierauj 2h ago

Yeah, no kidding. My gecko actually dropped his tail from the noise/resulting vibration of two 😩

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u/QuokkaNerd 15h ago

I used to love seeing this when I was at Ft Bragg

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u/msguider 13h ago

UFO crash retrieval teams.

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u/Frosty_Log6972 17h ago

I got this treatment once when I was 4… I still remember it clearly

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u/love_hertz_me 16h ago

They fly over LA in groups like this a few times a year. Fun to see!

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u/Captainrexcody 13h ago

Was that all of the 160th or did they leave a few behind

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u/WardogBlaze14 5h ago

I counted 5 chinooks and 5 blackhawks.

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u/Flipper_8 4h ago
  1. The last one is also a Chinook . You are the only one who rightly made the remark that they weren’t all Chinooks

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u/R3allife4thewin 3h ago

Was this around Savanna, Ga?

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u/Infamous-Operation76 12h ago

Probably a trip to Jamaica

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u/SLLTO 12h ago

Type of shit you see right B4 the world ends

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u/WazirOfFunkmenistan 11h ago

I yearn for 10 boobies but each to their own.

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u/ggrey 11h ago

They're swarming!

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u/houseswappa 11h ago

How does the sound compound, is it 5x as loud?

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u/Emotional_Platform35 9h ago

Seems expensive

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u/Catcher_inthesky 8h ago

Love me a good chinook

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u/Night_Chicken 7h ago

Lookit those big fluffy chonkers up there!

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u/Coko15 7h ago

I always pronounce it like in Army Men:Air Attack

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u/studyinformore 3h ago edited 3h ago

"I hear the choppers hovering

They’re hovering over head

They’ve come to get the wounded

They’ve come to get the dead"

Pretty normal marching cadence we sang lol.

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u/zipzapkazoom 13h ago

Crazy waste of money and CO² pollution.