Always wanted to be in the air force and was called up to Bloem in January 1979 and ended up a ratel gunner instead, ill never forget the awesome work our hellis did in support of ground opperations, these and Puma and the huge super frelon as the main work horse of the SADF, i absolutely love the Alouettes👌
These were the work horses of the Rhodesian bush war. Was on an auto rotation landing (1973) in one at New Sarum air base for 'aircraft down' training ... also as a young boy at boarding school in Chipinga we had one of these stationed at our school ... long ago memories 😊
The sight and sound of it brings back memory of my childhood late 60's during monsson season these helicopters come in to our football field which has been set up as a staging area for refuelling and supplies support during flooding...as children we would wait each day whenever the helicopter park there would start until it flies...this is the exact view and sound minus the dust and wind it generates.
Remember the Alouettes and the Puma's flying over my house from Waterkloof and Swartkops airbase heading towards Hoedspruit during the border war and back again at all times of the day..Good old 80'S.
@@Master_aviation1 i live in mauritius island , here our police force is flying 4 alouette 3 ❤🚁🚁🚁one alouette reg mph 04 is a french government gift more than 40 years ago and we have three alouette known as the chetak given by indian government reg mph 03 mph 08 mph 09 and i forget to mention there was one mph 01 the first alouette given by indian government its length of flying is over mph 01 is kept in the hangar
Wow. I can barely remember seeing a flying one as a little Kid back in the 90's here in Switzerland... They once were the Backbone of the swiss Mountainrescue, which has had them a very long Time already back then and retired them for being way too old to retrofit to new Standards and Laws, as they got tricked by the Gouvernment into buying the Augusta A109K2 which will get slowly replaced by the EC135 now. I didn't think I would ever see a flying, working one of those ancient Dinosaurs ever again, until I now stumbled upon this Video... Single-Engine Helicopters are not allowed flying anymore here and there are also tons and tons of new Laws and Restrictions, which made all the good Machines disappear and be replaced with stupidly expensive Bullshit that doesn't hold up to be used much more than one Decade... The latest of the beautiful old Helicopter Workhorses to be outphased by new Laws a few Years ago was the Lama, another sad Loss of a simple, but reliable and beautiful Machine...
Good question . It's because the red flashing lights are to say, "Keep away, the rotors are about to start turning".So if only the engine is on, it's not necessary for the reg light to flash
Professionelle Bergung mit sehr guten Fachleuten , so wünschte ich mir eine Regierung in Deutschland mit solch einer Tatkraft und man könnte uns noch vor dem Untergang retten .
that one crewmember hanging out of the aircraft?! There is no reason why he needed to do that, other than his desire to show off. What a chump, and the same for the pilot for allowing him to do so.
Because it makes it easier for the helicopter to transition to forward flight by elevating the lift from standard hover take-off. The forward speed makes forward flight much easier for the rotor blades and airframe.
Yep, ek het my basiese opleiding gedoen by die ou Lugmag Gimnasium in 1984, en was na basies by LMB Zwartskop gewees. Ek het die Alouette,s ook elke dag gesien toe ek by LMB Ondangwa was vir n lang ruk. Ai die goeie ou dae op die grens toe ek maar nog n laaitie was en toe selfone en rekenaars nog nie bestaan het nie. Ek het n vol studie beurs gekry na matriek, maar het toe besluit om eers my diensplig te gaan doen. Ek het nooit gaan swot nie en het vir die staat gaan werk na my diesplig. Dit voel soos gister en die gryskop skud net sy kop en sug, vir die eens mooi land van ons wat deur kriminele en n korrupte regering oorgeneem is. Ek sien ook dat jy noem dat jy al 47 jaar oud is, wel volgens jou foto,s lyk dit regtig nie nie so nie, en ek het regtig gedink dat jy nog n jong man is. Die gryskop man sal in Nov al 58 jaar oud wees maar die laaste twee dekades se swaarkry, het my net baie gou grys gemaak wat nou met spierwit hare deurtrek is. Groetnis van n koue en sopnat Langeberg streek in die Wes Kaap.
Well, yes.. and no . I agree they do stand and idle for a bit, then they fly for 30 min and bring it back then 30min later is round 2, and they don't ever refuel before round 2
To get the kerosene fumes out the cabin once they sweep in on start-up. The Astazou engine's proximity to the cabin allowed some exhaust fumes to seep into the cabin, especially on hot and dry days
@@Master_aviation1 a few hundred flight hours on these machines certified the distinct smell of the kerosene upon start- up. The direction of the wind makes it even more discernable in the cockpit as well. British flight crew on Sikorsky Wessex helicopters had the same problem with exhaust fumes on start-up and even shut-down.
There is a bunch of answers to this . No1 he makes sure the helicopter is out of the way of other aircraft . No2 to get fresh air in. No 3 to cool the cockpit down. No4 to get kerosene fumes out and so on there is a bunch of reasons
