Dutch Chinooks at work in Afghanistan (photo heavy)
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- Stephan dBr
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Dutch Chinooks at work in Afghanistan (photo heavy)
Hope you like the following pictures of Dutch Chinooks at work in and over Afghanistan. They were made early 2008. I made them during a trip to Kandahar for our publication "Airpower, the Netherlands Air Force"
(Airpower, de Nederlandse Luchtmacht). Many pictures were published in this book but many more were never published. This topic also included a lot of scenery pictures with Chinook involvement!
Enjoy... (still many thanks to both 298sq crews who made this all possible).
Starting with a ride from Kandahar to Tarin Kowt
Afghanistan looks great from above!
Guarding the ride. Most pictures were made from the same location, next to the ramp gunner.
Breaking underneath us, wow!
Really low level
Doing were it's made for, transport!
Dutch Apache flying cover
Search the tiny beautiful Chinook...
Spectacular sight to see the shadow moving over the ground while the Chinook is more or less steady in its flight.
Doing some recce too!
Find the Chinook again... this is what the crew call a brown-out landing (and departure). I will help... on the right hand side (just above the middle) the Chinook is almost departing the picture. Moments before,
the enormous sandstorm was made by that CH-47D during a slingload dropping. Watch the white car on the road in front of the dust too, that gives perspective how big the dust cloud is.
Need fuel
Picking up some military
Dropping some pallets at a remote location
This starts one of my favourite series...
In the middle of a brown-out! The pics before this moment are published in the book
Departing the brown-out
Continuing the flight
Landing on a stamp
Find the Chinook again!
After a day work... going home from Tarin Kowt (in the back ground) to Kandahar
Flares above one of the lakes
Haha, nice story. If you look carefully to the nose cone, you can see a dent in it, caused by a bird. One of the Dutch F-16 pilots asked himself how the hell it's possible that a Chinook can receive a birdhit
as normally those birds hit on the rear end...
A few miles out
Sunset over the Dutch ramp
Take the hand of your girlfriend... it's getting romantic
Hope you liked these
Grtz S
(Airpower, de Nederlandse Luchtmacht). Many pictures were published in this book but many more were never published. This topic also included a lot of scenery pictures with Chinook involvement!
Enjoy... (still many thanks to both 298sq crews who made this all possible).
Starting with a ride from Kandahar to Tarin Kowt
Afghanistan looks great from above!
Guarding the ride. Most pictures were made from the same location, next to the ramp gunner.
Breaking underneath us, wow!
Really low level
Doing were it's made for, transport!
Dutch Apache flying cover
Search the tiny beautiful Chinook...
Spectacular sight to see the shadow moving over the ground while the Chinook is more or less steady in its flight.
Doing some recce too!
Find the Chinook again... this is what the crew call a brown-out landing (and departure). I will help... on the right hand side (just above the middle) the Chinook is almost departing the picture. Moments before,
the enormous sandstorm was made by that CH-47D during a slingload dropping. Watch the white car on the road in front of the dust too, that gives perspective how big the dust cloud is.
Need fuel
Picking up some military
Dropping some pallets at a remote location
This starts one of my favourite series...
In the middle of a brown-out! The pics before this moment are published in the book
Departing the brown-out
Continuing the flight
Landing on a stamp
Find the Chinook again!
After a day work... going home from Tarin Kowt (in the back ground) to Kandahar
Flares above one of the lakes
Haha, nice story. If you look carefully to the nose cone, you can see a dent in it, caused by a bird. One of the Dutch F-16 pilots asked himself how the hell it's possible that a Chinook can receive a birdhit
as normally those birds hit on the rear end...
A few miles out
Sunset over the Dutch ramp
Take the hand of your girlfriend... it's getting romantic
Hope you liked these
Grtz S
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Re: Dutch Chinook at work in Afghanstan (photo heavy)
thx to share this beautiful photo's.
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Re: Dutch Chinook at work in Afghanstan (photo heavy)
Holy, impressive! As beautiful as it may seem, I bet there is little room for mistakes.
Kudos to the boys and girls overthere.
Kudos to the boys and girls overthere.
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Re: Dutch Chinook at work in Afghanstan (photo heavy)
Impressive Stephan!
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Re: Dutch Chinook at work in Afghanstan (photo heavy)
Wow, great pictures!
It's nice seeing the Chinook hard at work!
It's nice seeing the Chinook hard at work!
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Re: Dutch Chinook at work in Afghanstan (photo heavy)
Great set of pictures
This made me laughStephan dBr wrote: Haha, nice story. If you look carefully to the nose cone, you can see a dent in it, caused by a bird. One of the Dutch F-16 pilots asked himself how the hell it's possible that a Chinook can receive a birdhit
as normally those birds hit on the rear end...
Greetz Wesly
Re: Dutch Chinook at work in Afghanstan (photo heavy)
wauw, what a great report
I really enjoyed watching your pictures, the size of these brown outs really is amazing!
You really made me consider buying the book...
I really enjoyed watching your pictures, the size of these brown outs really is amazing!
You really made me consider buying the book...
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Re: Dutch Chinook at work in Afghanstan (photo heavy)
Thanks for replies.
@Mart, few left, so swap your thoughts from considering in... buying it
@Dutch-Camel, thx for your holy comment (the helo's left Afghanistan a while ago, currently only F-16s at KAF)
@Maurice & Crizz, thx!
Grtz
@Mart, few left, so swap your thoughts from considering in... buying it
@Dutch-Camel, thx for your holy comment (the helo's left Afghanistan a while ago, currently only F-16s at KAF)
@Maurice & Crizz, thx!
Grtz
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Re: Dutch Chinook at work in Afghanstan (photo heavy)
You happen to have some unpublished "Cougar-photos" as well Stephan Yes, very much enjoyed your work!
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Re: Dutch Chinook at work in Afghanstan (photo heavy)
@Stratofreighter, okay, next time... Cougars!
Re: Dutch Chinook at work in Afghanstan (photo heavy)
Can't see the pics...
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Re: Dutch Chinook at work in Afghanstan (photo heavy)
@MasterJet, strange, they are still there... give it a try later on
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Re: Dutch Chinook at work in Afghanstan (photo heavy)
"Photobucket bandwidth exceeded" etc. , that's why.....
Cougars next time
Cougars next time
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Re: Dutch Chinook at work in Afghanistan (photo heavy)
Hmmm, i think it's repaired now...
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Re: Dutch Chinook at work in Afghanistan (photo heavy)
Hey Mr dBr,
Nice stuff! Happy to see what someone is able to do while working! I wish I could do that too, but no, Chicken or Pasta, thats what I do! Need to look for an other job I guess. (((
Keep it up Kerel!
CJ.
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Nice stuff! Happy to see what someone is able to do while working! I wish I could do that too, but no, Chicken or Pasta, thats what I do! Need to look for an other job I guess. (((
Keep it up Kerel!
CJ.
www.cjvanderende.com