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Hull Maintenance Technician 2nd Class Dave Baudoin jumps out of a CH-46 Sea Knight helicopter during a performance by the Navy Special Warfare Group 2 parachute demonstration team Chuting Stars at the 1984 Azalea Festival Air Show. Baudoin is also a Sea-Air-Land (SEAL) team member

Personnelman 2nd Class Jose Olivo gives the one-minute signal to members of the Navy Special Warface Group 2 parachute demonstration team Chuting Stars, as they prepare to jump from a CH-46 Sea Knight helicopter. The jump is taking place as part of the 1984 Azalea Festival Air Show. Olivo is also a Sea-Air-Land (SEAL) team member

Radioman 3rd Class Mike Blum opens the 1984 Azalea Festival Air Show by jumping the American flag to the flight line. Blum is a member of the Naval Special Warfare Group 2 parachute demonstration team Chuting Stars and a Sea-Air-Land (SEAL) team member

A member of Navy Sea-Air-Land (SEAL) Team 4 leaps from the ramp of a C-130 Hercules aircraft during a parachuting performance, part of the 1991 Chicago Air and Water Show. The event also features demonstrations by Navy fighter aircraft

Members of the Navy Special Warfare Group 2 parachute demonstration team Chuting Stars form a "4-stack" maneuver during a demonstration of close relative work at the 1984 Azalea Festival Air Show

Members of the Navy Special Warfare Group 2 parachute demonstration team Chuting Stars from a "4-stack" during a demonstration of close relative work at the 1984 Azalea Festival Air Show

Sea-Air-Land (SEAL) team members demonstrate the special patrol insertion/extraction (SPIE) method from a CH-46 Sea Knight helicopter during an amphibious demonstration for the 14th Annual Inter-American Naval Conference. The tank landing ship USS MANITOWOC (LST 1180) is in the background

Members of the US Navy parachute demonstration team "Chuting Stars," prepare for a jump from a CH-46 Sea Knight helicopter

Sea-Air-Land (SEAL) team members rappel from a CH-46 Sea Knight helicopter during an amphibious demonstration for the 14th Annual Inter-American Naval Conference

CHIEF Boatswains's Mate Jim Rowland jumps out of a CH-46 Sea Knight helicopter during a performance by the Navy Special Warfare Group 2 paracute demonstration team Chuting Stars at the 1984 Azalea Festival Air Show. Rowland is also a Sea-Air-Land (SEAL) team member

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Base: Naval Air Station, Norfolk

State: Virginia (VA)

Country: United States Of America (USA)

Scene Camera Operator: Peter D. Sundberg

Release Status: Released to Public

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Known as the "Phrog", the Sea Knight was used in all U.S. Marine operational environments between its introduction during the Vietnam War. The type's longevity and reputation for reliability led to mantras such as "phrogs phorever" and "never trust a helicopter under 30". During the 1940s and 1950s, American rotorcraft manufacturer Piasecki Helicopter emerged as a pioneering developer of tandem-rotor helicopters; perhaps the most famous of these being the piston-powered H-21 "Flying Banana", an early utility and transport helicopter. During 1955, Piasecki was officially renamed as Vertol Corporation (standing for vertical take-off and landing); it was around this time that work commenced on the development of a new generation of tandem rotor helicopter. During 1956, the new design received the internal company designation of Vertol Model 107, or simply V-107; this rotorcraft differed from its predecessors by harnessing the newly developed turboshaft engine instead of piston-based counterparts. In 1960, American Boeing acquired Vertol and in 1961, it was announced that Boeing Vertol had been selected to manufacture its model 107M for the U.S. Marine Corps. Following the Sea Knight's first flight in August 1962, the military designation was changed to CH-46A.

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29/04/1984
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CH-46 Sea Knight - The Boeing Vertol medium-lift tandem-rotor transport helicopter.
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