Sunday 22-1-12: 3 Squadron RNZAF Bell UH-1 Huey NZ3814 Start Up & Departs From a Paddock at Hampton Downs Meremere - RED CHECKERS SUPPORT HELI. The Camera was Static sitting on the car roof.
Brings back memories my father was in Vietnam he was a pilot for one of these hughie's he was shot down couple times and still survived crazy may all these vets rest in peace and the ones that are still alive may God bless them
Definitely the best and safest helicopter ever built, I flew 1000's of missions as a pilot on one from military intelligence to MEDEVAC in Germany to deserts and high density traffic such as Frankfort, Houston and a host of other cities and remote sites. Thanks for posting.
One of the BEST! I flew on a lot of HH-60's and always wished I could fly on one of these. Especially number 14. That brings back memories I cannot describe. As simple as it is.
Only men can feel the absolute fascination with machines. It is beyond any explanation. I was staring at the video like mad, imagining the turbine inside, the increasing number of revolutions, fuel consumption, the forces which you have to overcome to "lift" the dead object from the ground. Centuries of scientifical progress are joined here in one machine. People usualyl think it is "normal" that you push a button and machines do what they do. No, some genius had to invent it first so we could use it and feel bored by its reliability.
We used to untie the blades, and then go round the other side with the extinguisher and wait until the thing got up to idle before we'd get in, as in the hot weather the nicads (for the starter-generator) got very warm, plus in case of hot/wet-start.
It's more for other reasons. It was windy as you can clearly tell be the video. If not done like this there would be a chance of the rotor blade hitting the tail boom if a gust catches the blade in a bad moment.
@@ChrisA7X89 I’ve seen a number of foreign militaries flying Hueys since then that do that as standard procedure, it eliminates mast knocking and wear.
Thats what i thought too. I mean technology wise the NH90 is light years ahead. Its a new generation helicopter and the Uh1 was unarguably probably the first gen perfected helicopter design. But the story of the NH90 is a classic example why new dosnt allways bet tested. The NH90 i had such high hopes for is a lemon. Australia ditching them. Norway is asking for a complete refund. Switzerland is ditching the contract and we are stuck. We are stuck with them. The problems with the NH90 are numerous and because everyone is now canceling orders due to its problems i doubt the company NHI will even be safe to afford the neccasery fixes. We cannot afford to replace them we are effectivly stuck with a now infamously troublesome air frame which our AF will take a generation to recover from. We should have waited till the aircraft had been tryed out by others before being one of the first to purchase. Its to late now. We stuck. But in hindsight the modernised UH1 the US marines use the UH1 y venom would have been a good choice for RNZAF in my opinion. The NH90 has impressive capabilitys but its no good if its spends all its time on the ground.
I thought he was going to "prop" the huey. Sounds silly but we did it a few times in Nam. No, really. If battery was low, crew chief would hold blade until turbine n1 reached 12 percent. On our signal, he would fling blade. It would take enough load off to start. CW2 71-72
Supprised you guys still have an airforce after uncle helen. I'll never really understand an airforce ridding itself of its strike capability like that. Still, thanks for the pilots. We had to train them up to Aussie standards but at least it was cheaper than starting from scratch.
Well of course, the airforce didn't axe the combat wing.The politicians did! Led, as you say by prime minister 'uncle Helen'. The RNZAF didn't like it any more than the Australian navy did when 'uncle Bob Hawke' axed your only aircraft carrier. As for the pilots that went across to you. Most were already highly trained professionals. You are, perhaps, deliberately confusing type training with standards. But what's a little 1 upmanship between friends?
No one does. Especially for an island nation. It was a sad day when i heard that. Helen was our first globalist prime minister. She unfortunatly was not the last.
growing up as a kid in the 80's you always knew when a couple Huey's would be flying over as the rotor blades hitting the jet wash causing the thumping sound shaking the rafters of the house you always knew the sound of the much older birds in those days.
What was legendary about the Vietnam war was that the yanks got their arses kicked by people who just had bamboo sticks & the odd gun they stole of the yanks.
ที่เวียดนามยังเกลียดพวกเราอยู่จนถึงทุกวันนี้ก็เพราะว่าเราไปสนับสนุนสหรัฐฯ ทิ้งระเบิดแล้วรุกรานประเทศเค้า, ลาวกับเขมรก็เกลียดเราเหมือนกัน.. The reason why Vietnam still hates us (Thailand) to this day is because we supported and helped them (The US) dropped bombs and invaded their country, Loas and Cambodia also hates us for this reason..
Last time I flew on a UH-1 was 2008 in Ft. Gordon. They gave me the E-ticket ride. I swear I was picking treetops out of my boots for a day afterwards, I had no idea how maneuverable they were up to that point!
02:35 She's plenty tough! Restraining the main rotor as the one thousand (plus) horsepower turbine spools up! [Technique used to shorten the rotor spin-up time in windy conditions to prevent mast bumping due to low rotational speeds]
Hi Steve they do a very very quick pre flight for Chinnook,its for a RAF medivac flight in Afghan, the crew speed through the preflight. Its here on YT can't find the link. Have to see it to believe it!!
I'm sure someone out there will correct me if im wrong :) .. I don't know alot about choopers but would imagine that they use a Free Drive Turbine opposed to a Direct drive to drive rotors .. hence should be able to hold the rotor for as long as you could overcome the aerodynamic forces involved... would want to try though :P
I might as well get in on this' For one I used to ride in them a lot. load them up, take stuff out, do a hook when they had a hook to snag to. Gun ship's Medavac. Being a ground pounder, extended my time for an early out. With that said, It's this way back in the day some times they wiped the evidence off, >> check list complete, ready to go........... hit it.......... fire it up....... Know your air ship. keep the oil topped off / & fueled ready to go. I always walked a wide berth around any gun ship /Huey hog mostly do to not wanting to get tagged by a rotter not tied off & many a time a rotter was lose in the wind. well enough to swing out some times. More over with some gun ships were staged to go. Some had rockets in the tubes, besides, choppers wasn't my business to be messing with just ducking when one of those side winders would get lose some times, & eat you up. or kill a hooch with some of our guys in it them some times. It was what it was...... I seen a number of the huey's where they blade took out the tail mast' or it was that little tail rotter was shot up all to heck, Or wake up to hear a chopper with no tail rotter running out of control. Unlike a short round coming your way a chopper with no tail rotter over head grab your back side & hope.......... there is no where to run. it's up for grabs where it will come down. like a short round. I know a lot of about them. enough to know; The little gal on that blade good idea. keep in mind it's not a war zone so it's best not to take any short cuts. after all it's a rock not a winged plane. want to hear that one more time, a huey is a flying rock................ No wings......... They make for a heck of a pile of rubble when they make contact with the ground on a free fall. & yes I seen a few controled landing's. Some thing like the first bounce up you see feet in the air, the second time more feet in the air making it for the ground, by the time a third bounce on the ground It's hope your all prayed up with the Good Lord, other wise figure it out from there.......... Our God is alive. Jesus Christ...... had to get that in there; saved my life........... My best experience ever. oh to joy, did I for get to mention. Some of those chopper pilots were really lose ended at times, rodeo pilots, they did things with them you would never try else were. I'm getting medavac out & the peaker head has the balls to ask me how I'm doing so he can buzz a rice patty before getting me back to the field hospital, Turns out it was my lucky day, took an RPG, land mined , Took a good arz that day, burned up pretty good but so bad I couldn't get my back side clear from the fire. The nurse after I was stripped claan from the burned skinned I find out from the male nurse, we have to wait. why I asked, get you a bed. She just got married. Ok fine but what does that have to do with me. She is an officer / captain, yes she been given some free time to Consummate. I said what....................... I had no idea what that was. he says. she is getting banged to make it all legal, really............. That female Captain & I never got a long not even hardly for a minute; she had me by the short hairs, all I knew was I wanted out of there. Every word is true for me how it was, . Vietnam & no I didn't hear any music, I was shot up all to hell as were many others. such is life. PS I healed up & went back to duty, US ARMY RA. Never give up..... As for the pilot who wanted to buzz the water buffalo. I wanted to kick his his sorry back side. He puts the hog in a hard bank on it's side, so much so, short of a slip & slid out the side door as he banks us, I could actually see the ground, I was on my back feet first loaded in on a stretcher. No music........... It was the one & only time I was actually in fear of my life after surviving a assault , But this time being our on nearly hanging me out to dry..... CH 47's I used to help out from time to time hooking up loads to take out or back to base. just don't touch the bottom............... we where called jungle eaters back in the day. The teams were vary vary unmilitary................... lived like dirt bags......... really nasty.....\ I knew Col Glean Williams, we where pales after Vietnam........ He was given a transfer to Arlington with Honors, agent Orange took him out at age 71 there about..... He was a great man he & his saved lives, he was operations officer for all of Medavac for a season in Vietnam chopper pilot even in Korea MedaVac pilot. the early days they used to pull you up by hand with a rope..
JIm glad you are still with us thanks for your service and welcome home,,, yep I was the a AHC in 68 ,,, 1500 + combat hours ,,, shot at all the time,,, crashed a few,, one of the best parts of my life as I got to help you guys and sometimes save your lives,, it was intense , fun,, crazy , all the above and we who made it chericsh those days ,,,many of us had the Adrenalin habit from those days on,.. drag racers, firemen, pilots,, all the above,, thanks again
only thing i see wrong is that the Crewchief should sit on the other side... so that she could see / clear the Tail Rotor... plus all Crew Chiefs new that in a crash, the transmission would kick to the side she got in at...... so all CE's would sit on the "port" left side.... to see the tail rotor... and dodge a transmission if there was a major hard crash.
The trouble is that we don't have enough museums to take all the retired Skyhawks that the US State Department wouldn't let our government sell when they became too expensive to maintain and fly. Most of them are still sitting in shrink-wrap somewhere.
Excuse me! But ..... umm, i think Japan got pretty close in WW2. And somehow the RNZAF managed 99 confirmed 'kills' of Japanese aircraft in the Pacific campaign. Oh, and of course, there was that 'little side show', fighting the Germans and Italians in Europe and North Africa, as well. Guess they must have been able to ignore the sheep for a while, and get the aircraft out of the museums!!
MarsFKA.The disbanding of the strike wing wasn't about costs. It was purely ideological. And the approval of any sales to a third party, clause, in defence contracts, is fairly standard, simply because of the military technology involved. lastly, most of the Skyhawks and Aermacchis were sold years ago to an American defence contractor for use in training support roles.
@Evan Mason Having flown in this phenomenal aircraft in USAF, hundreds of hours, I would presume there was a question about safety with the gusty breezes. Have the turbine control the rotor and not the wind.
The reason that you never see this is becasue there isn´t any reason for it what so ever, but little fun to do ill guess. Could although actually in worst case if not overheat the outputfan so at least put som unessesary strain on the blades since they isnt´moving and thus will there be spots where the temperature would be higher then normal. Jets are quite deilcate machinery.
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Because it's windy outside. If the rotor is not tied or held down the wind will cause excessive flapping resulting in the 'droop stops' banging and damaging the mast. Once the rotor reaches 50 RPMs or thereabouts there's generally enough centrifical force to prevent this from occurring.
