Boeing Chinook (UK variants) Boeing Chinook (UK variants) The Boeing Chinook is a large, tandem rotor helicopter operated by the Royal Air Force (RAF). A series of variants based on the United States Army's Boeing CH-47 Chinook, the RAF Chinook fleet is the largest outside the United States. RAF Chinooks have seen extensive service including fighting in the Falklands War, peace-keeping commitments in the Balkans, Northern Ireland and action in the Iraq and Afghanistan wars. The Chinook aircraft, normally based at RAF Odiham, provides heavy-lift support and transport across all branches of the British armed forces, and is supported by the smaller, medium-lift helicopters
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