Sikorsky-Erickson Air Crane - 'Incredible Hulk' - Start up & Take Off 

This is a GREAT video! It has stood up over 10 years to be the one to watch when observing how the S-64 starts up and flies! Thank you!

I was on a USFS fire crew in 93 in Southern Oregon east of Glide and we had a lot of fires then had one of these come and was going to drop on a stump that was on fire my boss called them on the radio and said for them to abort there run, we had a crew near the drop zone it pulled a hard left turn and you could see the blade bend up from all the G's it was pulling what an awsome bird. Lived in the Rouge valley all my life and was always excited to see them at the shop right off I5 thanks guys for all you do

WOW!!! THE ERICKSON SKYCRANE IS 1 OF THE AIRCRAFT I WOULD LOVE TO SEE IN A UK AIRSHOW. WHAT A GREAT MACHINE IT IS. THANK YOU FOR UPLOADING.

Nothing is more awesome than watching Erickson Air Crane at work. Whether it is yarding logs off a mountain slope or doing water drops on a wildland fire. They are the best.

The Air Cranes do a fantastic job during our bushfire season...hats off to the pilots for the jobs they do and save a lot of people a lot of work. Keep up the top work guys. Special mention to the ground crews as well!!

Awesome vid! Really illustrates the size of that thing.

I lived for many years in Medford, Oregon, home of Erickson. I used to love to watch these birds come and go. There was a lot of pilot training done there, too so I got to see hours and hours of hovering and maneuvering practice. Once we had a Russian Antonov fly in to ferry two of the Air Cranes to fight fires in Europe.

AWESOME video mate, really nice to see the Erickson's crane and the taipan

Awesome quality, thank you for sharing! :)

technology is somehow the ultimate form of knowledge that the human mind can achieved in this century. I salute everyone who participated in making this machine ...

Worked with this exact helicopter at GM plant, Linden N.j somewhere around 1990-91. Had a picture of me in front and "Incredible hulk" written on the nose of the helo !! Good times !! 😀👍

They are usually used for lifting heavy objects higher than terrestrial cranes can reach, lift heavy objects to remote locations or they are used as water bombers during forrest fires.

Each fire season in Victoria, we thank the pilots, crews and maintenance guys for their dedication and hard work . Without you we would be in a mess !!

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Bellissimo video fatto molto bene per me che sono appassionato di aerei ed elicotteri...stupendo. Complimenti 😊

This is the same effort needed to get me up and going in the morning now.

Great camera work, best I've seen in quite some time.

Amazing video bro

Erickson sold out it's Sky Crane fleet to Coulson Air Services. Erickson bought out Butler Aviation in Redmond, OR and now has converted successfully some Douglas MD-87's as air tankers. His operation has been growing and is highly respected.

Really nicely filmed, congratulations it rocks !

That's some raw piece of machinery; amazing! You can see the whole gear-assembly exposed from the main- to the tail rotor. The design-team didn't bother too much about styling & aesthetics;-)

I had the privilege of riding along after some maintenance work, back in the 1990s at the Aurora airport. KUAO. Great place to have much fun flying!

Just another day at the office for the S-64, but man that thing is awesome!

This is like one of these helicopters that most people likely have thought of but it is still unheard of to some. Awesome helicopter!

Beautiful baby blue classic Chrysler in the background.

Superb video. You can really sense the insane power that thing possesses!

That's a beautiful blue Dodge back there!

What an awesome aircraft! John P.

It's a North American firefighting craft called a "Heli-Tanker". I've been on several fires with Erickson ships, and worked near this particular heli-tanker on the "Martis Fire" in 2002 if my memory serves me correctly. The craft is quite impressive in that it can self-load a few thousand gallons of water in about a minute. It's almost terrifying to watch it load, hearing it pull more power and pitch as it loads. Simply an awesome machine. Glad to see they are fighting fire in the south during our winter up north :)

One of these flew over my old school... Was louder than the fleet of V-22 Ospreys that flew over my house..

Nice video, thanks :)

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I used to love watching the Sky Cranes when I was a logger in the 1970's. Our company used them to lift prime timber out of inaccessible areas. Amazing machines.

So powerful! A mighty fan! Just imaging the centrifugal force on these rotating wings!...

I seem them used to fight brush fire's around So Cal. It's a trip watching them dropping water on those fires. Awesome.

Incredible build up, was on edge of my seat

GREAT video of the Air Crane. One of my absolute favorite aircraft.

Thanks for the video. Have really liked the Crane since Viet-Nam.

very interesting to watch, great extraordinary.

1:31 - the rarely-spotted AEWH (Australian Erect Winged Helicopter) - marvelous!

They Make these monsters in my home town of Central Point Oregon. I see them fly around all the time. It's pretty awesome.

That is a beast

that one guy watching the startup from the beginning is the one and only true helicopter fan

NICE VIDEO

What a great machine! Erickson air Crane is based just down the road from me in Central Point Oregon so I get to see these things in the air on a daily bases, never gets old.

Jesus! I had not realized how massive that thing actually was! Great footage!

We had one of these beast set our HVAC units on our factory roof. It was quite amazing to watch. The wind was pushing the units out from under the chopper 15 feet and he still set them right on the studs. Once he starts, he don't stop until the job is done. We set 18 units in 22 minutes. He landed, offloaded excess fuel, did the job, landed to take on the fuel again, then took off and we never saw him again. These things are only making money when they're working, so they streamline the timetable to minutes. The ground crew told me that they had another lift that afternoon 200 miles away. All together, we paid $42,000 for the whole thing, plus fuel. The riggers were also contracted out. The skill of the pilots is remarkable.

My favourite chopper, as a former CFA volunteer I admire their ability as well as their lifting capability. From memory I've watched them load 9,000 litres in 90 seconds and with the skill of the pilots get right down into the narrowest ravine quick smart to refill and then do another circuit, brilliant old machine.

this helicopter used to fly in to the Anaheim Convention Center. As an employee I watched up close when ever it landed or took off. fantastic sight

Saw one about over 20 years ago, they flew into CFB Comox on Vancouver island to do some helo-logging up island. They flew it in a Guppy transport, I forget which aircraft it was based, but it piston engine. They rolled it out on a cradle, the legs slammed out as it came out. The blades and main gear were underneath on the cradle. It took about 6-hours to reassemble. The next morning they started it up, the rotor blade were staggered for better bite in the air under load.

Nice video

I saw one at Adelaide airport years ago. The instant the wheels were off the ground, it did a 180 faster then you could blink. Frightended the crap outa me

6 year old me was too scared to approach the Sky crane causes it looked scary. I liked the MRH-90 though.

Hopefully they’ll have one at Oshkosh one year.

Nice video 👍

Conclusion: Size does matter! Bigger is always better!If you are flying a tiny Mosquito ultralite helicopter, when you pull that tiny collector handle, you just embarrass yourself. Pulling the collector handle on an enormous sky crane will make the lasses light headed and faint. It stirs then uo!

This is my favorite helicopter. I love these things! What an amazing machine. 😍

It's like a cross between an piece of construction equipment and Thunderbird 2.

super cool tucker

I drove logging truck for Erickson in 70s under this sky cranes watched them log and place ski lift towers there the best 👍 to Erickson 😀

I liked the man he was just calmly recording the helicopter

NICE HELICOPTER, NICE RECORDING, NICE TECHNOLOGY,. THANK YOU.

Nice job

Amazing

Got to fly in a troop transport version when I was in the Army, before the National Guard quit operating them. You can't fathom the amount of rotor wash they produce until one lands near you. It makes it impossible to stand vertically.

I live just down the road from the Air Crane factory.... cool place and fun to see the new ones being tested.

There is one on display at the Army transportation museum at Ft Eustis VA.

the crane operator bounces around pretty good in the rear section. pays to be strapped in tight

if I had fly helicopters, that would be the one I would want to fly - I like the utility aspect of it - not just a sight seeing craft

Awesome 👍❤

that guy climbing up to take a look at the engine has guts that would freak me out that huge rotor spinning over my head like that

:-D Perfect for those little 3 day weekend get - aways ! :-)

You just need to watch a video like this, and realize how amazing the human is. Its so simple thing, flying. But to create a machine like this is amazing.

Never knew this one beast would have such a big crowd

Great capture mate.

The Hulk was at my house in Kingsport TN in 90s? setting power line towers and blew our 24' swimming pool down with it's 100mph propwash! They replaced no problem & our kids had world's largest jungle gym set that year with 42 towers assembled right beside our house...Goodyear!

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My God finally a great super high definition video ! Great job guys.

Nice video.

Wow amazing capture brother

Awesome machine!

U definitely need a crane to lift staff with such heavy balls who climb up top when rotor is spinning.

nice video

Wowwww very very nice, great,

Nice

That sky crane, I swear I saw it over the weekend, it was at Essendon Airport, near the ExecuJet building, on a landing pad.

Awesome

INCREDIBLE NOISE!!!!!!!!

Incredible‼️

nice backdoor entrance.

0:07 you get a good idea of the size

Mechanical version of those big orange Asian hornets you see in summer

so nice

I think that is not only neat but also very versatile since so much can be hung under its frame.

2:22 Start Erickson Air Crane

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Always used for the world helicopter lifting contests. Wins everytime!

I had to rent one of these back in 1999 to set 14 twelve ton AC units on a factory roof. It was a sight to behold. As a matter of fact, it was the last rigging job the owner was going to do. He had been contracted to fly out west for firefighting duty. The riggers had it all arranged and choreographed. He landed in our parking lot at 9:00 am. The first thing they did was to off load all the excess fuel for the trip there. They flew with the bare minimum amount of fuel when working over a building for safety reasons. Once he picked up the first one, it was nonstop movement after that. We had a 14 knot wind, so the AC unit was pushed to one side about 12 feet! Didn't make a shit, he set them down on the studs with the kind of precision that a surgeon has. It took 3 minutes per unit. When he set the last one, he landed, on loaded his fuel, and was gone. I think the whole operation took less than one hour. These guys don't fuck around. The lead rigger said that the skycrane only makes money when it's in the air, so every minute counts.

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Looks like a badass steel dragonfly... I love this machine.