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Ex-Boeing worker gets 10 months for copter damage

A former Boeing employee who vandalized a $24 million military helicopter was sentenced Monday to five months in prison and five months on home confinement after telling the judge the tension and tedium of his assembly-line job had gotten to him.

Ex-Boeing worker admits he damaged $24M Chinook

A disgruntled worker at a Boeing plant said he cut electrical wires on a $24 million Chinook military helicopter because he was upset about a job transfer.

Worker charged with vandalizing military chopper

An assembly line worker charged with vandalizing a military helicopter at a Boeing plant was upset about a job transfer and cut a bundle of about 70 electrical wires during his last shift on the Chinook line, federal investigators said Tuesday.

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Killer whales love to dine on chinook salmon, which could further endanger their future
Source: OregonLive.com

Killer whales attack prey as large as gray whales and as small as herring. But the killer whales of the San Juan Islands prefer to eat chinook salmon -- and that could be their ruin.

U.S. helicopter dumps Afghan ballots - Afghanistan- msnbc.com
Source: msnbc.com

U.S. chopper accidentally dumps Afghan ballots Boxes being carried in 'sling load' beneath Chinook fall onto mountains

H.R. 6689 would restore Federal recognition to the Chinook Nation
Source: The Daily Astorian

The tribe has been seeking recognition since 1851, and has been stymied in the last decade despite getting close to approval from the U.S. Department of the Interior during the Clinton and early Bush administrations.

Auditor-General needs to act or future dire for salmon
Source: The Globe and Mail

Some people look at the Fraser and see the most productive salmon river in the world, a remarkably beautiful and rich watershed that provides perfect habitat for everything from giant spawning chinook to tiny pink fry. Others see a gravel mine.

MoD helicopters can't fly when it's cloudy
Source: Yahoo! News

The Ministry of Defence was criticised on Wednesday for a "gold-standard cock-up" over eight Chinook helicopters that have cost 422 million pounds but have never flown because they can't operate in cloudy weather.

Federal scientists probe decline of B.C. salmon runs
Source: CBC

Federal scientists are working to solve the mystery of why Canada's Pacific salmon is disappearing while other species, such as hake, are thriving. In a five-year study in the Strait of Georgia, off the east coast of Vancouver Island, a team from the Department of Fisheries an …

Columbia Summer Steelhead closed indefinitely
Source: Singlebarbed.com

Columbia River steelhead season postponed indefinitely due to the decline in Chinook Salmon

Chinook Salmon Vanish Without a Trace Leaving Fisherman and Scientists Puzzled
Source: The New York Times

The Chinook salmon that swim upstream to spawn in the fall, the most robust run in the Sacramento River, have disappeared.

Salmon hatchery switching fish
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The 65-year-old facility — built primarily to raise chinook salmon as mitigation for fish habitat cut off by the construction of Grand Coulee Dam — is switching fish.

Computers Solve Checkers—It's a Draw
Source: Sciam

Top computer scientist proves perfect play leads to draw, recounts battle for world championship, gets kinged.

So you wanna fish Idaho?

I love to fish, I don't do it often enough but I think I'll take steps to change that. Idaho was made for fishing, and in most places the basic night crawler will get you going, but of course everyone has their favorite "secret weapons" in their tackle box.

Boeing expects Italy will buy 16-20 new Chinook helicopters
Source: MarketWatch.com

Boeing has been working hard on this deal, as it can cement a partnership with a company that could prove critical with Boeing's ambitions with Sukhoi and the SuperJet. Finmecccanica is close to Sukhoi and the RRJ program, one that Boeing wishes to have a strong stake in.

Boeing chief confident of USAF helicopter order
Source: msnbc.com

The truth is, there is very little chncne that Boeing will lose this order even if the tender has to be reopened - a prospect remote enough in itself.

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