My son in the US Army had a massive TBI and was rehabbing at the Polytrauma Center in Tampa. Also there was an Army officer who took a bullet to the head while flying a Chinook in Afghanistan. I don't want to say his name, but if you're reading this, thank you for your service and looking after my son while in Tampa. You really helped him stay the course and positive.
We (particularly us aviation nuts) are so accustomed to this and other helicopters it's almost commonplace, but if you step away then come back and view this thing like someone who's never seen one it is an ungodly contraption - huge spinning blades inter-meshing, the whole thing looking as heavy as a classroom building, making chopping noises that change in pitch and volume, blowing everything around it away before lifting into the air as effortlessly as a helium party balloon! What an amazing species we are that we can imagine and build something like this ...
They pass my house on a regular basis in the village I live in The Netherlands. Last year there was a funeral of a retired helicopter squadron leader in a graveyard further in our street. A Chinook showed respect by doing a low pass over the graveyard and doing a 'wing-wave' which was pretty awesome!
TheHDAviation and sometimes there are some low passes of Apaches and Cougars. We even had an Apache hovering over our garden, maybe 100 meters which was quite spectacular! Love it!
Where i live we used to have willow grove and warminster nadc. In the 80s there would be lots of helicopters, c-5s and warthogs flying over. I kinda miss it.
I can always tell when a Chinook is going to overfly my house by the super fast and deep egg beater sound. Once I saw a mixed squadron overfly of 4 and 4 blackhawks. Awesome engineering, over 50 years on.
Nelson is really a good place for aircraft lovers. I envy this guy! If I used to grow up there, my grades would be near zero, because I´d spent all my afternoons at the airport, instead of staying home doing homework.
Okay, I am officially going to use that as one of my excuses for past bad grades haha. It really is a great place for aircraft lovers, though it has been quiet these days. I hope the airport traffic will start picking up again soon as some nicer weather arrives.
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After the APU starts they set all of the avionics (radios, gps, altimeters), emergency system checks (engine fire handles/bottles), Hydraulic systems checks (2 main hydraulic systems) thats when you see the blades move up and down but not rotate, the blade pitch is controlled by hydraulics. Then you hear the #1 engine start, #2 engine start (both are also hydraulically started). Once both engines are started the ACFT is in "Ground" condition, all instruments for engines, transmissions, hydraulics, electronics are checked. Pilots are listening to the "tower information" which gives them wind speed, wind direction, altimeter settings and any notices to airman. Then the engines go to "flight" condition. After that any delay in take off is only getting/waiting for clearance from the tower for take off. The Canadian Army took delivery of those CH147F's in 2014, I believe they were all new build aircraft.
@@laz288 The APU supplies 3500 psi hydraulic pressure to start the engines. The 2 main hydraulic systems provide 3000 psi and you "can" start one engine off the other in a pinch but they require 3250 psi to start under normal conditions. The APU on the Chinook does not provide bleed air. The engines also do not provide bleed air for heating like many other helos, the Chinook has a stand alone heater that provides 200,000 BTU's per hour.
Had a group of 4 of these fly over my house one day they were low barely over the treetops it felt like a fuckin earthquake the house and everything in it was shaking i ran outside cause I didnt know what was going on as soon asi did i heard them and looked up in time to see them fly over ill never forget that it was freakin awesome
The CH-47 is the most heavy hauling Helicopter that I've seen up close and I love the power that it has and Pilots who have flown them can tell you all about this outstanding Helicopter during Ground and Air support for our troops.
I so want a Chinook, if I was ever filthy rich I'll get one and daily it. Land it in the supermarket car park and go food shopping, like a boss. Like THE boss.
Another example of a design that has survived. It is interesting to see military aircraft still flying like the Chinook that first hovered in 1961 and received its US military production designation in 1962. 55 years ago.
I fly the "D" model in FSX Steam all the time and I remember watching them fly from Ft Meade as a kid, my favorite helo in the entire U.S. Army, hard to believe they've been around over 50+ yrs!
I saw a video once of these aircraft running through its capabilities and maneuvering abilities.. this thing is totally insane on what it can do without ctashing.. I couldn't believe what I was seeing in that demp..
I once flew in one as a civilian doing a military exercise. My memory of it was when the rotors engaged the vibration was really noticeable in the back then when it got to a certain rotor speed it went all smooth. Great aircraft and as we flew the back door was half open so you could see the scenery of South West Scotland passing by. In case you haven't noticed I'm right into helicopters, lol. Next day we were taken in a Super Puma low level through the glens to North Connell where we boarded a C-130 down to West Freugh near the border with England and back to Prestwick in a Wessex which I think equates to an S-58 in the US.
Very good recording. After take-off most filmmakers get to the max zoom - notwithstanding the fact that the image is often blurred, and the object (Plane, Heli) disappears from the image by the shaking. Very nice also to keep the trees / bushes in the foreground as a reference point. The filmmaker here understands his craft! Good job - thumbs up.
I like Chinook. Helicopters are difficult to flying than airplanes. Pilot is high skills. My boyfriend was pilot in the U.S. Navy and commercial airplanes. He was flew the Fighter Jet and Helicopter and Boeing 747.
I remember helping marshal these for airshow static displays. The amount of rotor wash is just about enough to knock anyone on their back sides but the pilots loved them and I loved working with them on the rare occasion that I was able to. I really miss those days.
About a year or so ago I met a Vietnam Chinook pilot that did some insane shit in Veitnam among flying into the TeT offensive, having his helicopter shot to pieces, hit my mortars etc etc. Only met the man once because he unfortunately passed away, but some of the stories that he was telling me were out of this world.
HUGE LIKE, I LOVED watching this beast taxi and depart. That is one wicked dude when it's staring you down, very nice footage and close up shots. I said it before but I think this is your best catch all year. I love the Chinook family :)
This is something wonderful.❤❤ I enjoyed every minute. The two ROTORS have such a beautiful sound that I fell asleep on them🚁🚁🚁🚁🌍🌎❤.❤❤❤ Please make many, many more videos in which the wonderful sound of ROTOR can be heard for so long.❤
This has to be a strategic win for India to acquire the Chinooks. They are time tested and will be extremely useful to the Army and the IAF escpecially in the Eastern and Western Himalayas as well as relief and rescue missions.
@@TheHDAviation The ability to transport 45 odd troops as well as underslung haulage is a huge plus as well as functional requirement for the Indian armed forces. There does not seem to be any competitor to Chinnok 47F going by my limited google search research.
The reason why it takes a long time is because the helicopter checks whether there is anything wrong with the flight before take-off. If want to take off in a hurry during wartime, it can take off in a much shorter time.
I am surprised that the crewman didn’t go for breakfast and come back once they were ready to lift. The RAF Chinooks during the Afghanistan war were able to be airborne in approximately two minutes from receipt of a tasking, usually a CASEVAC or ground personnel extraction from a hostile action. Seriously though this is the longest startup and lift/taxi out I have ever seen, and in my 12 years on the Chinook as groundcrew I saw and participated in hundreds if not thousands of tasking and training flights, racked up a lot of hours being shaken and deafened by them in the air as well, those were the days, loved the time and experiences that only military helicopters can provide.
Dude I work on theses things they use hydraulic pressure to turn the motors it’s not like a car you just turn the button on and it starts there’s multiple steps that have to happen to get thoses engines turning
Amazing video!!! Beautiful camerawork, great that you got to view the entire startup. I can't wait to see some Aussie Chinooks later this year. Liked and favourited!
America should be proud for its achievements......love ❤ from India.....when I was a child then I had a toy chinook ....since then I'm a fan of this flying beast
Tropical monkey, do you know the purpose of this flying machine? It was used in Vietnam against local insurgents fighting the US invaders and their puppet regime. "Proud achievement"? Yeah, but only for supporters of US agression.
*The CH-47 engines were designed by Nazi engineer Dr. Anselm Franz who also designed the engines for the world's first jet fighter, the Me-262, and also the Bell UH-1 and AH-1 helicopters as well as the engine for the M1 Abrams tank!_*
I'm a Chinook Mechanic and the rotors are aligned or we call it "phasing the blades. One blade will be over the tunnel cover and one is pointing directly centered on the nose. the only way blades get out of phase is either a seized transmission or broken driveshaft. Either one of those situations occurs and the helicopter will crash regardless
Did you notice how the APU start sounded way different than on D/E/F models? I date back to the Charlies as a 67U, but I've not heard an APU start like that before.
Those up-and-down blade movements after engine start (before the rotors strted turning) - that's the closest a helicopter can get to shrugging its shoulders, LOL ))
