iloverollercoasters Posted July 22, 2008 Share Posted July 22, 2008 hi guys, i know theses 2 are completly different types of aircraft but which is the beat. Herc or chinook????????????????? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
desmojen Posted July 22, 2008 Share Posted July 22, 2008 hi guys, i know theses 2 are completly different types of aircraft but which is the beat. Herc or chinook????????????????? You mean best right? Flying Death banana certainly wins it if you do mean beat! Jen. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
iloverollercoasters Posted July 22, 2008 Author Share Posted July 22, 2008 sorry, i did mean best but which is the flying death banana Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
daz greenwood Posted July 22, 2008 Share Posted July 22, 2008 (edited) The Flying Death Banana is a nickname for the Chinook IIRC. Edited July 22, 2008 by daz greenwood Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
iloverollercoasters Posted July 22, 2008 Author Share Posted July 22, 2008 bit of a stupid name. anyone know why it is called that? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
desmojen Posted July 22, 2008 Share Posted July 22, 2008 It's what we call it. Probably because it looks a bit banana-ish and they have a tendency to crash a lot Jen. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CPNGROATS Posted July 22, 2008 Share Posted July 22, 2008 Bannana cause it has a lot of a peel.... Cheers, ggc Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sooty Posted July 22, 2008 Share Posted July 22, 2008 I prefer the name, 'the contra rotating bird of death' for the chinny. Having flown in both on several occasions and done low level in both down in the falklands I have to say I would choose the chinny, an altogether scarier experience, but great fun. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fmk.6john Posted July 22, 2008 Share Posted July 22, 2008 I thought it was the Bristol Belvedere that was the flying death banana?, they really do look like a banana and more of them fell out the sky than the Chinhook. The more common name for the Chinook I think is the Wokka on account of the noise the blades make? JB. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fmk.6john Posted July 22, 2008 Share Posted July 22, 2008 Gents, and ladies After a short bit of research I have found the 'real' flying death banana, the Piasecki H-21....... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H-21 A video of a not so good landing...... Sorry it's a bit off topic!!!. JB. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
desmojen Posted July 22, 2008 Share Posted July 22, 2008 All I know is that everyone here calls them that Wokka wokka is another name I've heard, but not so much from the lads here. Anyway, the Hercules is obviously miles better! Jen. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fmk.6john Posted July 22, 2008 Share Posted July 22, 2008 Sorry Jen, I wasn't trying to correct anyone,it's just I have never heard the Chinhook being called a death banana before . Will learn to shut my mouth in future, first I must remove my feet!!. JB. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
desmojen Posted July 22, 2008 Share Posted July 22, 2008 No offence John, don't worry about it! There's nothing new in the RAF after all, the Chinny probably inherited the name from the Belvedere being of broadly similar configuration? Jen. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Angels49 Posted July 22, 2008 Share Posted July 22, 2008 It's what we call it. Probably because it looks a bit banana-ish and they have a tendency to crash a lot Jen. It's a lot better than what American GI's call it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mtd350 Posted July 22, 2008 Share Posted July 22, 2008 I was torn between these two as I've flown many a mile in both but if I had to pick it would be the wokka purely because their pilots are nutters If proof is needed then watch a wokka doing a flying display Can't do that in a herc Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wez Posted July 22, 2008 Share Posted July 22, 2008 I was torn between these two as I've flown many a mile in both but if I had to pick it would be the wokka purely because their pilots are nutters If proof is needed then watch a wokka doing a flying display Can't do that in a herc They are nutters its true although the display pilots these days have a lot to learn from the likes of Darryl Willcoks (an Aussie exchange pilot from the early days of the RAF time with the Chinook), Bob Holden and the completely mad Dave Morgan. The Chinook earned the nickname "flying death bannana" from a time when a couple of them crashed - they don't crash anymore often than anything else - just more spectacularly! It had been called the Flying Bannana because it's descended from the original Flying Bannana, it looks bannana-ish (especially if they're not EU straight 'nana's), and 'cos some of the original aircraw and engineers had been on Belvedere's Most of the degrogatory names for the Chinook came from outside of the fleet - often from the Lightweights on Puma's, SARboys or Plankies , mostly we called it Wokka or Chinny or sometimes "Twin-tub", when we were extracting the urine from the operators of lesser cabs we might call it "the Big Green Machine". Having worked on them for a mighty long time I'm gonna have to say Chinook! Regards Wez Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
J35 Draken Posted July 22, 2008 Share Posted July 22, 2008 I have never heard the Chinhook being called a death banana before . I was thinking the same thing though John, can't recall many crashes involving RAF Chinooks? Only the Mull of Kintyre crash. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jabba Posted July 22, 2008 Share Posted July 22, 2008 Often called 'The 44 seater contra rotating flying death banana' of just plain 'wokka' by the people who worked on it. The flying banana comes from when the Chinook lifts into the air vertically with the rotors being at either end of the airframe, the airframe tends to bend slightly hence the name. The death thing came, as Wez said after some crashes early in its career with 'aunty bettys flying club'. I would fly on a Wokka any day, apart from when they are doing the flying display. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Derek Bradshaw Posted July 23, 2008 Share Posted July 23, 2008 I concur...always known as Wokkas to me whilst I was in the mob, however, these things have a habit of evolving over time. Cheers Derek Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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