They have large flight decks to accommodate helicopters up to the size of a Chinook.
The group is upgrading Chinook helicopters and training soldiers as well as testing weapons.
The Chinook is a heavyweight helicopter, capable of carrying between 33 and 55 service personnel.
Those improved dam operations have also benefited chinook, coho, chums, pinks and steelhead, said Graves.
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They are however expensive - a Chinook costs several million pounds - and has high maintenance costs.
We loaded onto three CH-47 Chinook helicopters for a three hour transit to the target that included an inflight refueling.
Soldiers on an airborne Chinook with a bird's-eye view through the cargo sling door take advantage of a few moments "out of the war".
William's training attracted controversy when he landed Chinook helicopter in a field on the property owned by his girlfriend Kate Middleton's family.
Two Chinook helicopters from RAF Odiham made a flypast during the parade.
Helo one burst into flames while the demolition team boarded the Chinook.
It, therefore, fell to him first and foremost to discuss the loss of the Chinook and to put this setback into context.
An official at the Russian embassy in New Delhi said earlier that Russia-based MiL Moscow Helicopter Plant's Mi-26 was competing against the Chinook.
Mr. Antony said the "acceptance of necessity cost" for the Chinook helicopters is about 24.68 billion rupees, and 30.95 billion rupees for the Apache.
Each will be able to carry 60 troops and has a large flight deck, able to accommodate a helicopter the size of a Chinook.
It is also fixing the costly botched procurement of eight heavy-lift Chinook helicopters, grounded in 2001 because they could not be certified as safe.
And in August 2011, insurgents shot down a Chinook helicopter, killing 30 American troops, mostly elite Navy SEALs, in Wardak province in central Afghanistan.
Now waiting for the Chinook that takes us to Kandahar on the first leg of our journey home and away from this beautiful, troubled country.
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Tests of female spring chinook from Dworshak National Fish Hatchery along Idaho's Clearwater River at Ahsahka likewise showed no evidence of the male-linked genetic marker.
The Chinook had been carrying oil workers from the Brent Field.
The AquAdvantage salmon, reared from the eggs of wild Atlantic salmon, sports some extra genes from the Pacific Chinook salmon and an eel, the ocean pout.
Flt Lt Capps joined the RAF in 2001 and worked on a variety of stations, most recently with the Chinook Force at RAF Odiham in Hampshire.
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Boeing bought the building in 1965 when Chinook production began, and currently is in the midst of a costly effort to make the plant more efficient.
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Samples in 1999 from fall chinook salmon in the Columbia River's Hanford Reach show that four-fifths of the females spawning there apparently began life as males.
The company also expects the Indian government to shortly invite bids for six heavy-lift transport helicopters, for which it will pitch the Chinook helicopter, Mr. Lall said.
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The Black Hawk was low on gas, and needed to rendezvous with the Chinook at the refuelling point that was near the Afghan border but still inside Pakistan.
"Two of their helicopters are coming along and that is in addition to the Chinook that has actually been out over the past number of hours, " she said.
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Head to Chinook's at Salmon Bay, about a mile from Ballard Locks, for everything under the sea: Dungeness crab, prawns, oysters, mussels, calamari, clams, and of course, salmon.
The Delta is a tidal estuary, with changing salinity that has produced a diverse ecosystem including the Delta smelt, a small fish found only there, and the Chinook salmon.
James Nagler, a University of Idaho assistant professor of zoology who led the study, said the results of the genetic testing on the natural-spawning chinook came as a surprise.
The close genetic relationship of those Priest Rapids fish to the Hanford Reach chinook suggested that the river environment was responsible for the unusual results in the Hanford females.
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