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…
