Chinook helicopter gets bogged down in a muddy field after mechanical failure

Chopper comes a cropper: Chinook helicopter gets bogged down in a muddy field after mechanical failure forced it to make emergency landing 20 miles from its base at RAF Benson in Oxfordshire The 40-year-old RAF Chinook was one of the first to join the RAF’s fleet in 1981 and flew in the first Gulf War … Read more

Army teams will deliver vaccinations with fleet of Land Rovers and Chinook helicopters

Send in the troops! 150 new mobile Army teams will deliver vaccinations with a fleet of Land Rovers and Chinook helicopters It is part of a mission dubbed Operation Delta Force, Mail on Sunday can reveal Defence sources say operation – named after elite US Special Forces unit – will involve medics and logistics experts … Read more

New study reveals how Chinook salmon use the Earth’s magnetic pulses to help navigate in the ocean

New study reveals how Chinook salmon use the Earth’s magnetic field as a kind of GPS signal to help navigate in the ocean Researchers confirmed the existence of magnetite crystals in Chinook salmon The crystals allow the salmon to sense magnetic pulses from the Earth They use these pulses as a biological GPS signal to … Read more