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Collins Aerospace System Reduces CH-47 Cargo to Personnel Carrier Conversion Time

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Collins Aerospace System Reduces CH-47 Cargo to Personnel Carrier Conversion Time
A CH-47F Block I Chinook helicopter with 3rd General Support Aviation Battalion, 82nd Combat Aviation Brigade maneuvers to pick up an M119A3 howitzer during sling load operations on Fort Bragg, North Carolina. Photo courtesy of the U.S. Army

Converting a Boeing [BA] CH-47 from a cargo transport with the Helicopter Internal Cargo Handling System (HICHS) to a passenger helicopter used to take up to six hours, but the Collins Aerospace [UTX] Cargo On/Off Loading System (COOLS) installed by the U.S. Army in the helicopter over the last three years has curtailed that time to less than an hour. The old transition from cargo to transport or vice versa was "really cumbersome," said Cheryl Gorman, the vice president of…

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