Each helicopter is powered by three General Electric GE38 (T408) engines, producing 7,500 shaft HP each. 2/9/24, according to ADSB: First helicopter: 169022 - IRHZ12 Second helicopter: 170002 - IRNHZ02 Third helicopter: 170006 - IRNHZ11
Amazing they don’t crash more. I would hope the new birds have better reliability. Something like 250000moving parts in a D model IIRC. Sorry about your pal.
I was amused to see the Commander aircraft in the lower left part of the shot turning up one of the engines as the second ship started to turn. With those three monsters stirring up turbulence on the transient ramp if I was parked out there I'd be inside praying that my airplane was securely tied down.
GE appliances are now made in China. I know I brought a refrigerator at home depot and the sales person swore it was made in the U.S. A year later I found the compressor was Chinese...
this, yours is the first video i've seen on YT featuring the 53K variation since Sikorsky announced it's production, ALL the others coming to my feed were the previous model... and if I'm viewing EC 135s, Apaches, Tocanos, C-130s and such on YT i would think the CH-53K would have come to me sooner. Thanks for this vid.
They should have been named hurricanes because they will blow you to the ground when they land close to you from the rotor wash. A Ch-46/47 is just as bad.
They most certainly are. I have had the pleasure if seeing them being built and all stages of ground and flight operations. They have a very distinctive “Ground Growl” so to speak.
@@darrellparkhill "PAVE LOW" Nice Birds with all the Bells and Whistles, half the time we didn't know where we were with the NAV Aids we had. - "Semper-Fi"
A brilliant comment I found online says, "Find me a bird that looks like a helicopter. They stand in defiance to gods creation and as such require significant engineering to withstand their heresy"
If the noise inside a CH-53K is anything like a CH-53E it would very loud inside the helicopter even with hearing protection. I remember the first time I time I was in a CH-53E and the noise was unbearable
Per engine, General Electric estimates the "Specific fuel consumption: ~0.4 lb/hp-h". If I'm interpreting this correctly, it means each engine burns .4 pounds of fuel per horsepower, per hour. In other words (assuming my interpretation is correct), all three engines combined would burn 9,000 pounds of fuel per hour operating at the max HP of 7,500. .4lbs * 7,500 hp = 3,000lbs per hour 3k lbs * 3 engines = 9,000 lbs per hour
Seeing that white vapor come out of the exhaust tube when they start suggests that the fuel is not gas. I suspect it is kerosene but I am not absolutely sure.
@@danielclark2934 These engines burn kerosene. The white smoke is burning engine all. The labyrinth oil seals in the engine bearings are letting oil pass into the hot gases as the engine is starting. When the compressor air pressure builds up as the engine is accelerating the labyrinth seals do their thing and stop the oil from passing through, hence no more white smoke.
@@coldstartarchives Jet fuel weighs roughly 6.6/lbs per gallon. So that works out to 1,363 gallons per hour total fuel burn at full power. The Lycoming IO-360 variant in my Zlin 242-L burns 16 GPH at full power and it's good for 200 HP. 😉
Cold start? After living in the northern parts of the U.S. and going outside when its -20 or -35 to start my car after it sat outside all night is what I call a cold start! The title is a bit disingenuous, IMO. I have built several models of this Helo and several hundred other armor/ aircraft and a few ships over the years and living in rural US. and the majority of ex military vehicles I see are trucks used in the logging trade.
That may be what you call a cold start, but a cold start simply refers to the temperature of the engine's fluids when it is started, not the outside air temperature
