I love how the weapons officer was on the phone with tech support while looking in hydraulics bay. "Yes I turned it off and back on and it still will not pressurize."
@@MatthewHensley8304 I mean "back in the day" it was a few analog gauges and hydraulics and linkages. No computer telling that hydraulic pump exactly how much to pressurize to and which valves to open for all sort of reasons.
That's why nearly all military operations have at least two members. So one can report on another's behaviour. I doubt they stayed for longer than 30 minutes, and then they returned to base once sufficient information (status, location, etc.) was relayed to the ATC.
Awe it’s so sad to see the mommy Apache circling her baby unable to help. I’m glad the baby Apache was ok after human intervention. Faith in humanity restored!
I can remember an incident as an aero scout in a OH-6 losing the tail blade assembly after a large piece of Soundproofing became dislodged, was ripped out the open door and it cleaned the assembly off the gearbox. We did a running landing into family’s back yard. The wife was hanging laundry with their two youngen’s on their swing set, Dad changing the oil in their car......did a textbook landing, shut down and asked if we could use their phone. They were so excited regarding the situation, made us lunch while waiting for a replacement tail rotor assembly by a Huey to get there. I was the units prop and rotor tech and was flying with a future test pilot. I changed everything out, balanced it and we did a quick test flight then departed. I sent the family a nice card with dinner reservations to thank them for their hospitality.
Bad but then got good. I'm not a pilot but I know how important the tail rotor is. I was stationed in Vietnam from 68-69 and one day I was walking to the mess hall and a Huey flew overhead and I noticed the tail rotor came off. It then tried to land in an adjoining field but crashed and exploded. I ran to the tall fence nearby and climbed up but the concertina wire stopped me. I hung on and watched a couple of Army guys come out of their radio shack right next to it, trying to get the crew out of the fire. They got them out but a few didn't make it. My barracks was directly across the street from Hotel 3, the large helipad where almost every type of helo landed and launched. Glad you were able to do what you did. Cheers, Bob Powell, CMSgt, USAF(Ret)
This happened to me in the 1990's. We were flying an OH-58C and had to make an emergency landing in a German elementary schoolyard as there was no other open area. Classes let out and we became instant celebrities with about 200 kids and let every one of them sit in the cockpit for a minute. International relations, lol. The contact team came out, fixed the bird and we were home for dinner.
Landing in the back yard is every boy's dream! As a FF in my city we got a call from our dispatch of a military helicopter making an emergency landing next to one of our highways. We got there in time to see it land. The crew told us they had gotten a "check engine light" that meant "set it down now, where ever you are-now" - that's what the pilot told us, lol. We stood by until a unmarked van and pickup arrived to repair the problem and they took off a couple of hours later. The crew were very cool, we all set around and joked about what people may have thought. Had a few people pull up and ask. I enjoyed the time with the crew, they were from different parts of the country and were only in town for a few days. They were having an upgrade done to their helicopter and they had some kind of meeting or class to attend as well. Our town has The Redstone Arsenal as well as several military helicopter contractor businesses. It was a black UH-60. I've never seen a black one. I've heard the stories of the conspiracies and the black military helicopters. The crew told us the paint shop was probably out of dark green and sand colors. We thought "Yeah, right." But we had a good laugh and a good time. Since then I have had another UH-60 helicopter landing due to "mechanical issues" with almost the same results. But the 2nd was the normal color, lol. I really respect these young guys and what they contribute and sacrifice.
When I was a kid living in the country of Kentucky I lived along the flight path of Fort Campbell. I'd wave at the C-130s flying tree top and the whole formation would tip their wings at me. As a kid that was the coolest thing ever.
My parent lived in Hanoi and in 1972 they waved at the American. Needless to say The American greet them back with heavy ordnance lol. Glad they made it out alive
Lived in west central Louisiana, not far from peason ridge. Ft Polk always doing training and in the summer, my 38 acres made good emergency LZ for birds. One year, had UH 60 land, crew ask what would I charge to run them to local store for ice and cokes. Became regular event every other day. Great bunch of guys.
I know people are just joking when they laugh at the weapons officer on the phone with the chopper support, making Microsoft reboot jokes. Honestly, I'd do the same: call the base and ask to talk to the mechanics. It's no different from calling your car dealer for support when something craps out on you and your vehicle is stuck in the middle of nowhere.
I like the way you reversed the footage of the of the H-60. Cleaver. I remember a time, yeeears ago in Oregon, when an Air Force rescue helicopter made an emergency landing in a farmer's mint field. The crew, thinking the farmer would be pissed out of his mind seeing his crop destroyed, seeing the farmer coming out with a big smile on his face and invited the crew in for coffee while they waited for maintenance to arrive. The crew asked the farmer why he wasn't mad. The farmer replied: "Because I know Uncle Sam just bought my entire crop." True story.
Grew up on a ranch near Ft. Hood Texas, when I was 14, a CH-47 set down on the field near our house and barn. We gave them the address and directions from Grey Army Airfield so the maintenance guys could easily find it. We had a family BBQ going and the crew and maintenance guys joined. Became a once a month thing, a helicopter or two landing, BBQ loaded up in coolers to keep it hot and the other stuff cool, the crews chilling with us. We slaughtered our own cattle and pigs and the unit pitched in, so more than enough beef and pork to go around. It was the main reason I joined the Army and went AVN, well, that and I was advised on the best MOS for me. Few qualified for my MOS, I was quickly made an E-5 because my slot was supposed to be an O-3. I only missed one question on my ASVAB, blew the doors off. It was a rush to be sitting in an OH-58D on a maintenance check flight with a Blackhawk next to us doing the BBQ run to my home when I inevitably got stationed back at Ft. Hood. They knew who I was before I got to that duty station, it was like coming home before getting home.. Weird and awesome.
I live in Virginia Beach and we are surrounded by military bases and air fields. When i was young, maybe 10-11 we had a CH-47 Chinook abruptly land in our backyard while i was out on our trampoline. Its crew immediately shut it down and walked up to our house. Apparently they were having some mechanical issues and were forced down because of it. They asked if we could keep our distance while they figured out what they were going to do. We ended up feeding them lunch and hanging out until a recovery team showed up with a crane and lowboy tractor trailer which they loaded it on and drove off with it. They were pretty lucky that our driveway is shared with a farmer and could accommodate a truck and trailer large enough to come get it.
@@davidca96 its not their fault they had to land there in the first place. and its millitary equipment so its fair that they keep their distance from it
Even though it was an emergency, them landing there made those kids day. They will never forget that day when they saw the coolest thing on earth. Maybe even inspired one or more of those kids to become pilots themselves. 👌
For a time, that was part of my job. I was a member of DART (Downed Aircraft Recovery Team). Our team had technical specialists with parts, equipment, and toolboxes ready to go in a "flyaway kit". During the day we were mechanics for US Army aircraft, but if an aircraft went down, would grab out stuff, saddle up, and fly in to try to fix it and get the bird back in the air. Went in armed to the teeth too, as we were also expected to be able to work under fire and return fire if necessary. Did that as part of the 1st Infantry Division. That was a long time ago and wonder if they still do things the same way.
Yep. Me too. Back in the 90’s. I recall one of my team members was called in with three others to repair a downed 64 in Georgia. He forgot to fasten his toolbox to the floor of the UH and when that bird tilted, adios toolbox. He wasn’t laughing, but the UH pilots got a nice giggle.
I once had to make a precautionary landing in an Army UH-1H Huey to a cow pasture on Edisto Island, SC. The elderly couple who owned the land invited us in for tea and banana bread while we waited for maintenance to show up. We didn't have cell phones or RU-vid in those days. 😄
We did hover practice in cow pastures near Fort Rucker. The cows ignored the helicopters and kept grazing but the calves approached and watched curiously.
Those big, wide blades of the Huey gave them fantastic auto-rotate characteristics, didn't they? Hence why they could do the "Huey shuffle", where you spin the blades up on the ground, kill the engine, lift off, turn around, and land. And also why every helicopter in movies goes "WHUP-WHUP-WHUP".
@@hoilst Hmmm…really? I flew Hueys for 30 years and never tried that. ASMOF, when one applies full pitch during an autorotation (I.e. engine out), the aircraft goes straight to the ground, albeit softly. Taking off with no engine, I dunno, man.
That's a 1930s Weimar flag flying in rural Pennsylvania. Either these guys are Pennsilfaanisch Deitsch speakers, or that flag's there to represent something... else.
@@mho... I was referring to Pennsilfaanisch-Deitsch, a local variety of German spoken in the United States and Canada which has origins from the Pfalz (or _Palz_ as speakers call it).
@@mho... Bevor man klugscheißt, sollte man auch sicherstellen, dass man klug ist und sich vorher intormieren. Ein hilfreicher Link: de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pennsylvania_Dutch_(Sprache)
@@mho... you are a German but you have no idea about American Germans , the skyscall is right it’s called deitsch speakers , deutsche is something else .
The freaky part is when the old baseball players emerged from the corn field, and then that whispering voice that said "If you build it they will land"...
I don't know any American who wouldn't be floored to see an Apache Attack Helicopter land in their yard. Where I am from they would have served lemonade and fired up a BBQ for the soldiers. Like come on, that's freaking cool.
Many years ago I was driving a country lane when an Apache which had been hiding in a field flying suddenly popped up at first I thought my car was sounding rough but as I looked round the pilot waved and made off you can imagine the wow I let out ,if I’d been the enemy it would have been curtains for us the skill these folks have is amazing 👍👨🏻🏭🇬🇧
Yeah, A-10s have that effect too. They are ABSOLUTELY silent from the front when they fly low -- when you "hear" them they are already past you. Makes you pucker and be glad they are on OUR side.
ZSU4-23 is why that tactic doesn't work and everyone switched to long range missiles. The Soviets were concerned about these so they fielded ZSU4 23s in large numbers.
@@redwolfexr happened with a C17 the other day to my mom and I. They like to fly low over our lake to train and a few weeks ago one flew straight at us. We didn’t hear it until we got engulfed in the shadow lol
They have an even smaller helicopter with a big ball over its rotors with cameras, sensors and radar that can tuck itself in behind some trees with only those sensors visible over the tops of the trees, so it can see an entire battlefield while staying hidden.
As a kid, I was used to seeing military helicopters on a fairly regular basis. I'm a South African and we lived on a nature reserve (1993 - 1999), where both my parents also worked. Walking distance from our home was a helicopter pad and we had a small fuel depot there for military helicopters. The two main South African Air Force helicopters were the Allouette and the Oryx (larger). Later on the Rooivalk ("Red Falcon") was developed which was the South African version of the Apache, but I only saw that at an airshow in Cape Town.
I got the aviation bug as a child seeing B52s mainly. They were doing training missions over Dayton, Ohio, at the time. Very loud and I liked it. But I love choppers to and flew once in one in Hawaii.
I lived on schofield barracks in Hawaii from 1975 to 1979. The 25 th infantry division was still bringing in new helicopters after leaving behind so many in vietnam. We would often see fifteen or twenty fly over at a time. Entire formations flying over the officers quarters on an almost hourly basis for weeks at a time.
This happened to me back in the early 90's. I was flying a day out/night return navigation training route in an AH-64A when the utility hydraulic system caution light illuminated. I landed in a farm field just north of Greensboro, NC, and the local spectators were wonderful. We ate well that evening.
@@iflyflir1846 Oh cool!! Me and my brother were out in Arizona back in April for the Final 4. Beautiful State, got to see quite a bit of it but not all of it. Thank you for your service!
My first assignment was as an aeroscout platoon leader in West Germany during the cold war. We would fly the fenced border from one end of our sector to the other. About midway, there was a bratwurst stand for the German tourists. We'd land there to grab a bite. All the people in line for the bratwursts would run over to see the helicopter so the copilot would stay and entertain them while the pilot would stroll up to the brat stand and buy the food. Worked every time.
We've had a saying in Germany once: "You want to have your own F104 Starfighter? - Just buy yourself a field and wait!" This was because our Bundeswehr Starfighters had to suit a multi role Fighter-bomber spec, which made the aircraft quite unsafe. We also called it "Erdnagel", which means soil nail!
Some years ago a Blackhawk Helicopter had to make an emergency landing in the sports oval near where I lived here in Sydney, amazing how the crew allowed people to come over and have a look at the aircraft while they waited for it to be fixed. Kids were allowed to sit in the pilot’s seat a real PR exercise.
@@freethinker5039 Not once they shut down power- which they had to do as part of emergency procedures. Then the crew is down to their evasion radios to communicate. Second; lower altitude would block the LOS traffic; while the helicopter in the air could still relay.
Nice video! 👍 Min 1:10, the other Apache helicopter that was circled over was not intended to provide direct help (fix the landed bird), probably he was providing security (air escort) and verifying coordinates where the damage bird landed, in order to facilitate the arrival of the latter UH-60. 😉
Can I share a similar story? In 2000 a brand new helicopter rescue service started in country NSW Australia. My husband was the Pilot. The opening/show off the goods day came around but no helicopter. They were caught in a snow blizzard & landed in a stranger’s paddock. Then the country hospitality of which I’m so proud was extended. Heaps of food & heat & the boys ended up being there for a couple of hours. I’d almost forgotten that but I’m positive the kind people who looked after the crew that day will never forget. & wasn’t that cool?
Boy, I would have run to the store and bought these guys some snacks, given them bottles of water, etc. I would have told them "It was an honor for you to have broken down in my backyard." A few years ago, I had the first experience of seeing a Blackhawk. I was at work and I heard a military rated helicopter engine (a lot more powerful than a typical helicopter sound). I looked up and there was a Blackhawk...followed by another flying by. Not too long after, more appeared overhead. And more and more. Dozens of them! I think they flew by overhead for nearly an hour. It was awesome.
I have a cousin who flys either a blackhawk or huey I forgot exactly which, but I was able to go to one of the bases he was stationed at and had a close up look of it as it was having maintenance done along with like 20 others
Coffee's on, muffins just out of the oven! ( During a recent nearby fire, those S-70C Firehawks' sounds dwarf the smaller medical helicopters from the nearby hospital.)
your God must be Satan because last time I check “For that cause We decreed for the Children of Israel that whosoever killeth a human being for other than manslaughter or corruption in the earth, it shall be as if he had killed all mankind” Apache is a killing machine
those men and women don't fight for you, they fight for Corporate America and its Corporate interest... so why would you thank god for that? I bet youll be resending that thanks to god when a hurricane hits in your area and those military people fly in and take all of your stuff from you just like they did in New Orleans after Katrina. you all best open your eyes and stop letting illusions rule you.
If they where REALLY lucky they had a good lawyer looking for old Pennsylvania laws from 1777 like: "Seeds, apples and other goods that land in the garden on the owned property belong to the property owners the moment it touches the land". I am sure there is such a law and this family was just too slow to contact some sly lawyer, that Apache could have become their new family car to fly over to Walmart every Saturday evening with all that awesome night vision equipment... :D
Hey , must have been a privilege to have your Military need and depend on your Farm to land and work out the problem. A Great Story you can tell for the ages. Looks like everything worked out OK. Cheers...!
I was coaching little league and at a practice one day a Cobra Attack Helicopter landed in the park not 100 yards from our field. I took the team over to check it out mainly because I had lost their attention. The pilot was an awesome guy and he let the kids climb all over it and sit in the pilot and weapons officers seats. Being a child at heart myself I did the same. Pretty cool experience.
The military works under the jurisdiction of the government, in all functional democracies and also in many totalitarian countries. It's the politicians of the government who tell the military what to do. The military's job is to figure out how to do it. Every year the government also needs to decide the budget for the armed forces. The military is like a giant government agency, essentially. The vast majority of countries also have a minister of defense (or equivalent, depending on how the offices of the executive branch are called). That person is basically doing nothing else but trying to look after the needs of the military in the government. It's impossible to forget it.
What an honor! Man if of been out there taking orders for a meal, go get them some dinner, open my garage to any tools that could be helpful. I’d die for that “misfortune” 👍👍
This is actually a very old model. It’s an original AH64A model which leaves me scratching my head because the US Army converted the last A model to a D model somewhere near 2013. Leaves me wondering if this was an Israeli, Greek, or another foreign military that still operates A model Apaches.
I install the hydraulic system on MH-60R Seahawks for a living. I would have loved to have had a hand in helping these pilots. They are living heroes. Badass dudes for sure.
I had to PL once (UH-60) and it actually turned out to be kind of fun. The family that owned the property brought us sandwiches, sodas, and slices of pear pie. We let their kids put on our helmets and ALSE vests so their mom could take pictures, and hung out. It was pretty cool.
That's a weird coincidence, I was just reading 'Snake Pilot' by Randy Zahn last night and the last paragraph I read before going to sleep described how he had to carry out an emergency landing of his AH-1 Cobra gunship helicopter due to a hydraulic failure, then this pops up on my You Tube feed first thing this morning - can Microsoft read my mind now? Spooky.
I'm thinking they do but its not public yet. Like you I've merely thought of something and later had something related in my feed. Not once but many times.
We had a family reunion in Mission Viejo in the summer of 1985. We all went to see "Back to Future". When we left the mall, there were two Marine Corps H-46 helos in the parking lot. Lots of security, and one blew a tubine with the sister ship giving assistance. What a memorable moment!
Did I just see a German flag fluttering in the courtyard of an American family ? That’s the beauty with the European Americans - they can take pride in both flags and not bother anyone‘s sentiments. Just imagine a Chinese or an Iraqi American doing that. Peace.
I love unexpected events like this (and obviously glad that no one was hurt and it was all OK), but a nice surprise for everyone in the neighbourhood nonetheless! I teach in a big school in the UK and one day a few years ago, at very short notice, (but at least pre-planned via telephone), we had two Army Air Corps Apache helicopters turn up and land on the cricket pitch! Huge excitement. Turns out, the crew's were on a cross country exercise and had a colleague living locally to our school who had been recovering from an injury he picked up in Afghanistan a few months earlier and they wanted to pay him a visit! Everyone was very happy.
I was a kid living in Black Forest, Colorado, back in the 70s. Had regular flyovers of the forest by Phantom fighter jets right above the canopy of the forest from training. Used to go out and wait for them in our pasture and wave at the pilots as they came over. Got to be a routine,waving at them,and they would tip wings and wave back at me. Was a memory of a time I'll never forget,seeing those badass planes and the guys with balls enough to fly them.
Back in March 1973, I had an engine failure in an OH-58A Kiowa and ended up in someone's backyard - a yard surrounded by trees. In my case, we had a hard landing and the helicopter was unrepairable. That was not the only engine failure I had over my career, but thankfully, it was the only one I had in a single-engine helicopter.
How did they get the bird out again? Did they disassemble it and truck it out or sling load under a heavy lift chopper? Curious. I've seen them do both. I hauled a Jet Ranger off of a busy TN highway on a rollback wrecker couple years ago. THAT was one tedious and nerve wracking tow.
@@manaboutit1594 Trucked it out. Tore up their yard doing it, too, from what I understand. First touchdown autorotation I'd done in that helicopter, because they weren't letting us do autorotations to the ground because the main rotor blades were cutting off the tail booms. My particular accident was one of seven accidents in a week and the 18th ABN Corps Commander was incensed. Fortunately, the Collateral Board, which determined whether or not I should be made to pay for the aircraft, firmly said "no."
@@lawerenceseliger5385 Nope. I was in 35th Engr Group flight detachment at Ft. Bragg; D 4/7 Cav in ROK, and C 3/5 Cav at Ft. Lewis when I was on Active Duty. If 1/17Cav was at Bragg in '72 - '74, I might have flown one of their OH-58s once on a mission for a couple SF guys when there was no one available from the Cav, but that's as close as I got.
Reminds me of a time my mother and I were stopped for gas one day in very VERY thick fog, and I mean maybe 20m visibility at best. So we're just minding our business and I comment on these approaching engines and rotors and I say to her "Theres more than one, and it sounds a lot heavier than medivac, could be military". Sure enough, bout a minute later, three sets of navigation lights start blinking through the fog and a set of RCAF Griffons land in the lot next to the gas station. We didn't stick around to chat, they were busy tending to their aircraft, but they powered down and waited on the fog to clear. They must have seen the tops of the nearby grain silos or cellphone tower and figured there'd be a spot to set down... or they just REALLY wanted some truckstop sandwiches
@MrPoediggidy my thoughts exactly. Heck, it was back in 1982 when a US Army helicopter landed on one of the baseball diamonds behind our high school and I was lucky to sit in the cockpit with the helmet on that made the Gatlin gun point wherever the helmet faced. It was a Marine Corps Cobra. I'm not sure if they even have them anymore but they were amazing up close! The following year I joined the Marines as well heheh..
I am jealous that I do not live in a place where such situations can happen ... A beautiful day for the people who live there - so different from all the rest of ordinary life.
This is how my great grandparents got to school, they had to build it in the morning and disassemble it at night. In Tuesday’s they had to practice touch n goes at school. On Sundays it was gods day and a no fly day. This meant they had to drink enough red bull to manually fly themselves. So grateful for technology ♥️
In David Attenborough voice: "Here we see a wild Apache Helicopter, wounded, unable to take off." "Its partner circles around worryingly as it awaits for the incoming rescue." "The scene had attracted curious Homo Sapiens in the locale to take a peek at the magnificent Apache Helicopter."
The same thing happened to my wife and me so we went to MC DONLDS and got them 9 burgers and fries and drinks and took them to those guys so they had something to eat. It was fun
