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Boeing Flight Testing of UK Chinook Mk4 Begins

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Wednesday, January 26th, 2011

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Boeing [BA] and its UK subsidiary said flight testing began Dec. 9 for the first Chinook Mk4 helicopter for the Royal Air Force. "Project JULIUS, as the Mk4 program is known, will modernize the current Royal Air Force Chinook fleet--essentially giving us new aircraft," said Chris White-Horne, Mk4 project teeam leader for the U.K. Ministry of Defence. Project JULIUS will modify 38 Mk2/2A Chinooks into the Mk4/4A configuration. Eight Mk3 Chinooks will be modified into the Mk5 configuration. All the…

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