 What do you do when your 'chopper breaks down in the middle of Snowdonia? Chinook rescues Sea King Quite impressive but I'm not sure I'd like to be underneath it!
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 A few weeks ago in the Cheviots I was told that a helicopter once airlifted a tank to the Otterburn ranges, and dropped it!
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 Wouldn't fancy seeing that fly over my head! I was in Snowdonia at the weekend. On Friday afternoon I heard a chopper, looked over to the Snowdon Horseshoe expecting to see a Yellow Sea King and saw an Apache helicopter doing vertical, nose first manouvers down Crib Gochs south face and back up Y Lliwedd. A bit like a skateboarder on a halfpipe! 
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 A chinook can lift another chinook, in 1983 (I think it was) one had to make an emergency landing on Victory Green in Stanley. It could not be repaired where it was so the RAF sent in another chinook to lift it out, I've been trying to find a photo of it but no luck so far.
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Does anyone know specifically whereabouts this was?
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 Many years back I was on exercise with the RAF MRT from Brawdy. We had driven down and were due to be airlifted up to the beacons in a Seaking. When we arrived there were neither of the two seakings stationed there on base. As we walked over to the crew cabin, we could hear the unmistakable throb of a twin engined Chinook approaching. One of the lads came out and said "Here comes your lift!" Slung under the chinook was our seaking which had been on a shout and had broken down. The Chinnok had flown in from Odiham and was then detailed to take over. I had a very "interesting" ride in that chinook with a pilot who forgot that he had civilians on board.
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 > A chinook can lift another chinook That makes sense, since a Chinook can (IIRC) fly one one rotor. You need a lot more power to take off, though...
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A chinook cannot fly on one rota. The chinook has contra rotating rotas which are interlinked so that one flys through the path of the other. The contra rotation counters the torc effect as it has no tail rota. With just one rota the body of the aircraft would spin uncontrollably in the opposite direction to the remaining rota. Having said that, that would be if the remaining rota didn't strike the stationery one. Chinooks are twin engined and can fly on one. (Actually they can auto rotate to the ground using rota speed if both engines failed)
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> Chinooks are twin engined and can fly on one. As, yes, that's what I should have remembered. Or applied a bit of engineering thought...
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Found one! (not the incident I was refering to though)
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 A chinook cannot fly on one rota. The chinook has contra rotating rotas which are interlinked so that one flys through the path of the other.
This is true...because ROTORS are turning discs or BLADES and ROTAS are what people work to...were you doing the off duty at the time of posting Tony? 
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 It was just outside Nant Peris apparently...
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 rota is the correct pronunciation of rotor. so tracey tells me.
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helicopter "rotor" is the correct spelling. I expect Tracey can say it how she likes.
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 If it's the RAF, it'll be "Rotah, old bean". 
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A chinook cannot fly on one rota. The chinook has contra rotating rotas which are interlinked so that one flys through the path of the other.
This is true...because ROTORS are turning discs or BLADES and ROTAS are what people work to...were you doing the off duty at the time of posting Tony?
No it is correct Wayne, a cinook cannot fly on one rota, there HAS TO BE TWO PILOTS !
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Now thats a good chinook photo
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