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From: bxr307@csc.anu.oz.au
Newsgroups: sci.military
Subject: Re: Aircraft Nicknames
Message-ID: <1990Sep13.012530.17164@cbnews.att.com>
Date: 13 Sep 90 01:25:30 GMT
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From: bxr307@csc.anu.oz.au
In article <1990Sep11.024414.14310@cbnews.att.com>, jem3@pyuxf.bellcore.com (John E McKillop) writes:
> 
> WHAT THEY REALLY CALLED THEM

> CH-47, Boeing Chinook = Sh*thook; and Hook

	This helicopter is know here in Oz by its rythming slang name of

"Angry Chook" - Chinook  ("chook" in OZspeak = Chicken in USspeak. In
otherwords a bird that flys although it would rather not if at all possible! :-)

Brian Ross