I'm a Veteran of Vietnam (70-71) and Gulf War 1991 Iraq ... Iraq ( 04-05) Wars . I was a door gunner UH-1 helicopter in Vietnam with the 118th AHC .... And in Iraq worked on AH-64A Apache attack helicopter for the 1/151Aviation Regiment ... Retired 2011
It's only now when I finally recognize that background music - "The Rock" soundtrack by Hans Zimmer. Great music from a good movie, but still nothing compared to the sound of the Huey!
Brings back memories, we use to ride sitting three on each side, belted in, with our feet on the skids, once the bird took off, you could not keep your legs straight. Lots of fun flying in those things.
James Tee I can honestly say that going in on a CA we were not belted in. It was rare for the bird to actually land. We would have been clear and the bird gone in the time it took them to unbuckle.
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That is so bad ass. I grew up day dreaming about being a solider and fighting for my country. I was born during the Vietnam war in 1968. I can only imagine the things my Mother seen and experienced during this time period. My Mom passed in 2000 and as a 51 year old man, I now have all these questions I will never get to ask her.
@@vintagevegas9067 Your fine, it's okay. No need to apologize. Not everyone is going to understand everyone else all the time. Take care and good luck.
Rob Ryder is horribly known to blab too effing much. I stopped going to THUNDER OVER MICHIGAN as did a lot of people I used to regularly meet up with at TOM because he ruins the air show. When the WW2 fighters fly past he stops for 2 seconds " let's hear the noise of the engine" then non stop talks.
Nothing worse than going to an airshow and someone talking the whole way through the display. Put the info into the program, cut the music, cut the chatter and let people hear the aircraft.
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Sorry but saying that the huey was given up for something more reliable!?! How can a chopper thats been battle tested for 10 years+ and save so many souls from the jungle meat grinder ever possibly have a superior upgrade? UH-1 for life!
I agree that to suggest that the UH-1 was not reliable is just not so. Although I must say that the upgrade to the “H” model was a HUGE improvement over previous models
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El mejor de los Elicopteros en tramsporte de tropas aerotramsportadas vueno yo e estado en diferentes ocasionesem operativos aero tramsportadas lo mejor de lo mejor
That chopper was on the ground way to long. Most chopper pilots didn't even stop they just slowed down & the troops bailed out. So the NVA couldn't get a target acquisition.
i am not an expert, but what i have read so far about that topic : they aimed for 3-5sec to get the troopers off. (there are even some vids of that on YT). here on the 2nd landing they took 6sec to realize that they should get off....and after 20sec the chopper finaly got away. but well, its just reenactment
NVA (PAVN) and the VC (PLF) are the same thing I was talking to a former NVA member and he was telling me his unit picked up the black PJs before heading into south Vietnam so they wouldn’t attract attention. Same goes for the no Insignia rule that the NVA had.
Thank you for your service to your country... Also I'd like to thank the us military for thier service as well .. you both did what your country asked you to do and I have nothing.but the highest respect #LONESTARPRIDE
Don't listen to the people who say vietcong people are bad because your country asked you to do what they wanted you to do so thank you for your country's service
At about 3:49, I bet every 'Nam vet watching this has the same thought, "Man, they took their time getting out of that slick," knowing back then, an entire squad was probably on the skids before it touched the ground. But of course, the lawyers won't let it happen like this in an airshow...
Showed this to my old man and he said the same thing...those guys fell asleep in there he says...he said they would jump off before the huey even pulled in.
Just curious, is there a certain reason why those things that are sticking out halfway down toward the tail of the Helicopter that they are painted Orange and not green like the rest of the helicopter?????
So if you dont mind me asking, would the helicopter be even able to fly safely without those wings attached? I mean would the pilot be actually able to control it in the air without them????
Andrew Silva Depends on the helicopter. Most have them in some form or another whether they are normal prop or jet powered turboprop. I am not a pilot so I can't say what they do but they tilt forward and back which I presume keeps the chopper stable when hovering.
is this in a way the reason why to airliners they have installed those new wingtips that bed upward at the ends of the wings to 1 make the plane fly hopefully more smoothly????
I’m not American, but I have never understood why the Vietnam war is being glorified and such, while that war wasn’t won. I’ve never even heard of one single Second World War film produced by Germany.
The best soldiers, the best equipment, won all the battles. The Huey will always be the symbol of America's involvement in a war that it did not want to win. Vietnam was the first of a long string of battles won and wars without end.
Well maybe their not shitty liberals and can say whatever they want and not controlled to say only what they can can do.
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.......it's true though...I'm no liberal, in fact far from it...but these wars were started by people who manipulated others with false flag events..and war...for profits.....we know this now. Vietnam being the most obvious one. See "11 lessons with Robert McNamara" for starters. I hate to sound disrespectful to our dead soldiers but I didn't lie to them...the deep state controlled US Government did. The boys in Iraq said themselves....it seemed that their main purpose was to ensure KBR/ Haliburton convoys got to their destination. $$$
Alright!! you're choppers on the ground, WHAT'S THE FIRST THING YOU DO!?... He hesitated he's dead. you're next!! You get off the chopper.. RIGHT!! YOU GET OFF THE CHOPPER!!!! Every second counts gentlemen.. Men will die.
