Penn College News

Military Aircraft Delivers Rare Opportunity for Public Access

Thursday, April 12, 2012

An impressive campus visitor, under blue skies Aviation maintenance technology student Ryan M. Enders and Ashley V. Martin, a nursing major, take a peek inside A sense of proportion Jacob W. Kielwein, a plastics and polymer engineering technology major (left), and Reservist Raymond J. Fischer III, enrolled in plastics and polymer technology A smooth takeoff A CH-47 Chinook helicopter landed on The Madigan Library lawn Thursday morning, offering the campus community a closer look at the 100-foot-long military transport craft. Operated by the Pennsylvania Army National Guard and sponsored by Penn College Army ROTC, the twin-engine, tandem-rotor helicopter attracted much attention in his three-hour stay.
Photos by Whitnie-Rae Mays and Michael S. Fischer, student photographers