Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/CH-47 Chinook helicopter

Original - A CH-47 Chinook helicopter in a training exercise with U.S. Navy Special Warfare 159th Aviation Regiment personnel and a rigid-hulled inflatable boat. Virginia Capes near Fort Eustis, Virginia, July 16, 2008.

Reason: A good photograph of a difficult and dangerous exercise that displays the capabilities of two military craft.
Articles this image appears in: CH-47 Chinook, Virginia Capes, Rigid-hulled inflatable boat
Creator: MC3 Robyn Gerstenslager

Support as nominator --Durova^Charge! 23:59, 21 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Weak, Weak support It's noisy, and the picture's cut off, detracting from it's enc. in CH-47 Chinook. Also, it's use in Virginia Capes is pretty weak. Otherwise, for the picture's use in Rigid-hulled inflatable boat, I think it's pretty decent, so it's a weak support in that regard. Spencer^T♦^C 00:20, 22 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]
A propos of nothing, I wish I could find an upload-quality version of the Chinook stunt pictured here: [1] Spikebrennan (talk) 14:16, 22 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose. Composition, cut-off subject, raft is in the shadows, hard to see what's going on. --Dschwen 14:35, 22 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Support. Very cool! Clegs (talk) 14:41, 24 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose – parts of rotor blades and the tail top are cut off – Ilse @ 20:53, 24 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Weak support - Dramatic, striking, good focus on the body of the helicopter - but Ilse and Dschwen bring up good points. Cirt (talk) 19:02, 28 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Not promoted - no consensus. --jjron (talk) 08:16, 29 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]