The CH-53 is slightly faster 
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I’ll never forget the first time I saw a 53 parked next to the 60’s we had at Patrick with the 920th.
Looked like you could fold the 60’s rotor and just wheel it in the back of the 53 and you’d have room to spare.
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I remember reading somewhere that on Special Ops Missions with the 160th Night Stalkers The 47’s were constantly hampered by Their much slower escort 64’s
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My wish is coming true finally. F*** YEAH!
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I know right. Its so bloody awesome
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I will never forget that time one flew over my house in the late cold war (1986) and it made the house shake. Mighty impressive.
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I am SO jealous of all of you: working with CH-53s, standing inside CH-53s, having them fly over your house.
Closest I got was walking around it at RIAT 2022, and that was already incredible.
While the Chinook is no Stallion, it is the first Western “heavy”* chopper, and the second “heavy” chopper after the Mi-8 was added in 2013.
I spent years flying that one almost exclusively and I hope there will be just as much content for the new lifter!
* I know the Mi-8 is usually considered a medium lift helicopter just like the UH-1, but it can lift so much more weight than the Huey that until we have DCS:CH-53, I’m willing to call the Mi-8 heavy lift.
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You know you can just come over to my workplace right?
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MMMHnnngg them’s some tasty pics brother!
I think polychop should do this one. They done two light choppers in a row. Bet they want something different.
Another whirleything that would do well in DCS is the V-22. But I reckon that one better be done by ED themselves.
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I know exactly where those were taken, haha! 
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BINGO.
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Did someone say Beetlejuice three times?? 
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Soooo, about that mention of the German border in the Chinook video… 
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I had similar experience but with a flight of 5 Mi-24 Hinds overflying my home at pretty low altitude (50 - 100 m). I vividly remember window glass vibrating in their frames. Back in the 80s they didn’t cared, the Su-22s overflew urban areas at Mach 1+ pretty often, sonic booms were frequently heard if you lived between military airbase and the military range.
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Somewhere between airbase in Piła (now defunct) and 21st Central Aviation Range in Nadarzyce (Poland).
Edit: I even made a video of a scenic flight in Ultrlight from that airbase to that range in X-Plane when I was experimenting with generating Ortho and VFR Overlay few years ago:
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