Chinook

I saw a CH-47 Chinook helicopter flying around near Naval Air Station Oceana and pulled off the road so that I could get this really mediocre picture of the beast (I had forgotten to return my camera's settings to their normal state after last night's twilight pictures).

The Chinook is a monster of a 'copter. It can haul 55 troops, or a 24,000 lb / 10,886 kg payload. On this one the long boom projecting from its underside is a refueling probe. It has to extend that far out to avoid the rotors.

[Lisa Poland]

I had an Apache fly right over me, very low, yesterday but I was driving. I wanted a photo so bad. So, at least you got a photo.

[bkb in the city]

Great capture

[Jon Lip]

As we live with two RAF bases within 15 miles of us, we get these things very often - Too often!. They tend to practice flying in circles over our village so much so that it is sometimes impossible to hear the TV!