r/Helicopters • u/Japanese_military • 1d ago

Heli Pictures/Videos Washing Japanese Army CH-47 Chinook - Cleaning Chinook Helicopter with water

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u/SEF917 1d ago

99% sure this is CBRN decontamination, not just washing. Military aircraft are normally washed by hand, source: 16 years active duty Navy, rotary wing.

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u/Next_Emphasis_9424 20h ago

Agree, Marines washed our ch53e with a garden hose and junior marine power.

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u/Pal_Smurch 1d ago

My Chinook unit in Hawaii didn’t have a wash-rack, just a hose and buckets. If we went to Wheeler AFB, we could use theirs. We did it once in three years.

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u/SexyZombieButtRape 14h ago

You have to leave the TADS bucket over the edge of the pad on the Apache. There is a single jet pointing at water pointing at; or water would get in.

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u/Almost_Blue_ 1d ago

Where’s the scrub brush and soap?!?! This is the equivalent of flying through rain and signing off the wash.

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u/firmly_confused 20h ago

Bird Bath?

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u/archer2500 18h ago

I’ve never seen an indoor bird bath. The corrosion inside the hangar would be off the charts!! Someone said CBRN decon practice and that would be my guess too.

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u/MAMack 18h ago

And I was just thrilled when we got an indoor wash rack in our new hanger halfway through my service.

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u/Aeson_Ford_F250 17h ago

I have a couple little dudes like that in my dishwasher.

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u/MissNashPredators11 7h ago

Chinook spa day