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Air Cav Reaches Pinnacle During Flight Training Exercise

Hovering with only the rear wheels touching the edge of a cliff, pilots from Company B, 2nd General Support Aviation Battalion, 227th Aviation Regiment, 1st Air Cavalry Brigade, 1st Cavalry Division, perform a maneuver called a pinnacle in a CH-47F Chinook helicopter during a training flight, here, Aug. 26. The pinnacle allows the pilots to drop of ground forces in areas too dangerous or too difficult to fully land in.



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Date Taken:08.26.2010

Date Posted:09.01.2010 18:29

Photo ID:314799

VIRIN:100826-A-#####-253

Location:FORT HOOD, TX, USGlobe

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