Boeing CH-47 Chinook Boeing CH-47 Chinook The Boeing CH-47 Chinook is an American twin-engined, tandem rotor, heavy-lift helicopter developed by American rotorcraft company Vertol and manufactured by Boeing Vertol (later known as Boeing Rotorcraft Systems). The CH-47 is among the heaviest lifting Western helicopters. Its name, Chinook, is from the Native American Chinook people of modern-day Washington state. The Chinook was originally designed by Vertol, which had begun work in 1957 on a new tandem-rotor helicopter, designated as the Vertol Model 107 or V-107. Around the same time, the United States Department of the Army announced its intention to replace the piston engine-powered
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