Case Study: U.S. Army achieves faster, safer CH-47 startup with Eaton EPUSHA

U.S. Army - Customer Case Study

The U.S. Army needed a faster, safer way to replace the manual hand-pump system used to pressurize the CH-47 Chinook helicopter’s hydraulic accumulator before startup. Eaton responded with its EPUSHA electric pump for utility system hydraulic accumulator, helping reduce the time, labor, and injury risk associated with the old process.

Eaton’s EPUSHA solution lets a single person start accumulator pressurization with a switch flip, cutting the process to less than two minutes from 18 to 20 minutes manually. The result was improved safety, reduced resource use, and better aircraft readiness, and the U.S. Army made the system a deployment requirement across its CH-47 fleet.

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