Amphibious helicopter The HUP-2 was able to taxi forward or backward on water, regardless of wind direction. The CH-46 Sea Knight and its Canadian variant, the CH-113 Labrador, can land on water and rest for up to two hours in calm water. The rear sponsons hold two of the three landing gear units as well as self-sealing fuel tanks. The helicopter began service with the United States Marine Corps in 1962, and with the Canadian military in 1963, and is used to carry cargo and combat troops. The Boeing CH-47 Chinook was made sufficiently watertight to allow it to land on water
Chinook Jargon a hundred years old, like Henry Broderick, the realtor, and Joshua Green, the banker." Jones estimates that in pioneer times in the 1860s there were about 100,000 speakers of Chinook Jargon. Most books written in English still use the term Chinook Jargon, but some linguists working with the preservation of a creolized form of the language used in Grand Ronde, Oregon prefer the term "Chinuk Wawa" (with the spelling 'Chinuk' instead of 'Chinook'). Historical speakers did not use the name "Chinook Wawa", however, but rather ""the Wawa"" or ""Lelang"" (from Fr. "la langue", the language, or tongue). NB "Wawa" also