Sky Aviation's and World First Ever Civilian CH-46 Sea Knight 

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Probably much more. Higher ranks who constantly jumped from ship to ship used them..

As viewed from the top, there is 17’6” of blade overlap. If they were de synchronized it would be a catastrophic failure.

@@metalmill52 I know, but no matter what I said the guy wouldn't believe me.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1986_British_International_Helicopters_Chinook_crash

+Richard Tingley Gunny I am happy that you saw that safety mishap-waiting to happen, on the crew door handle, I was fly on a ch-46 and the upper half of the door came off, barely missing the rotator blades... thank god we were banking left at the time...we watched that door land in the Pacific Ocean..does anyone know of other incidents where this has happened...scary....i wonder how many accidents were caused by these doors and blamed on blade failure

Whoa that's wild.

The buno to that bird is 4831

Not a plane, nor is it a "ship". . . . . . .CH-46 Sea Knight helicopter. Retired US Navy bird

The BU# was 154831 delivered as a Delta Model in 1968.

Me too! It only costs around $4700 per hour to operate.

@@georgiaactivist8728 nice! Also in the demilitarized version?

Would fit a whole clan

@@chrise842 Maybe demilitarized is is only $4300 per flight hour.

+Aaron C Cannon g 30. its pretty nice i just need to get use to using manual focus.

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T.C. ....magnum p.i.'s buddy

Hi viz for fire fighting and forest backgrounds.

Lol

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I use to live in Arnprior where they had the Boeing facility that would repair and service the CH-114 Labrador. Would hear and see those helicopters flying around in the spring and summer.

David Koran they probably were the V-107 which was a cavilian version that never went to the military. But I honestly don't know. All I know is we had to create a new type certificate for these after buying them from a government auction. They look identical from the outside but the engines and enough of everthing inside is different and we could not use the V-107 certificate.

Yes, they were KV (Kawasaki Vertol) 107's built in Japan. After the Pan Am building crash they were sold to Columbia Helicopters who (mostly) used them for logging. In the James Bond Movie "You Only Live Twice" a KV-107 picks up a car and drops it into water.

NY Airways rolled out Boeing Vertol 107’s (not Kawasaki) in scheduled shuttle service in the NY area in either 1961 or 1962. They flew among the three major local airports: LaGuardia; Idlewild, which later became JFK; and Newark NJ; as well as the Wall St NY heliport. They flew over our heads at relatively low altitude every day in those years, when I lived in Jersey City NJ, and were still in use when my parents relocated us down the shore in June 1964. A few years later, NY Airways added service to the heliport atop the new Pan Am Building in Manhattan, but as far as I know, by then they had replaced the 107’s with Sikorsky machines. BTW, around 1963, there was a successful emergency ditching of a 107 in the Hudson River.

maybe they're far enough apart it's safe the front can do so safely and maybe the back has some tilt too to make it more controlleable while flying forward

I used to work on CH-46's in the early 80's. The rotors are phased so they don't hit each other as they intermesh. Phasing the rotors could take two minutes to two hours to do. The CH-46 is a very forgiving aircraft and if you get any kind of warning sign you need to get it on the ground ASAP!

so in a way what i said they're far enough to be safely used in flight with you giving alot more detail and explanation to my estimation?

The CH-46 was designed in the 1950's and the rotors were designed to intermesh. There have been several accidents with them when the rotor synchronization failed. This was quite common with the A Model in the mid 60's in Viet Nam. Boeing Vertol had come up with a thing called hover aft. As you approached the landing zone and need to come to a stop quickly the aft rotors would flair. This caused undue stress on the aft pylon, that eventually led to separation normally at the point where the cabin section and aft pylon came together. This is know as the field splice at Station 410. After a few too many accidents the hover aft was removed. I myself was involved in a CH-46 crash on board the USS Guadalcanal LPH-7. I was with HMM-263 off the coast of Italy. We were on an operation and while turning the ship to start a Cobra helicopter the winds came across the flight deck the wrong way and the helicopter I was on flipped over on the flight deck. All the crew survived but the Navy LSE directing the helicopter went over the side and was never seen again. Thankfully the helicopter I was on was a E Model and had full self sealing fuel tanks. If it had not been upgraded I may not be here today. Like I said in my earlier post the CH-46 was and is a very safe and unforgiving aircraft.@@john34261

@@doubledbbw i'm sure it would sound frightening if i would hear something go wrong with the propellors doing any landing or when taking any sharp turns with the model A and i'm sure if i smell any fuel that's burnt it would be very devasting and you're right if haven't been upgraded you wouldn't be here

Must have never heard of Columbia Helicopter, they have been flying them for years.

Technically Columbia has 107s

Technically those were 107s, not CH-46s.

@@decibully1984 When Navy & Marine '46 pilots use their experience and logbooks in support of obtaining a Commercial Pilot certificate in the civilian world, they'll pick up a type rating in the BV-107-II.

Probably a ch 47.. the Marine corps and navy haven’t flow these in years.. they fly ospreys now..

mrcarlo1966 If Orange = Blue; Yellow = White & Brown = Red, that would be a gorgeous paint scheme. Then have a fleet of, say 12 aircraft, flying between the New York area airports, executive airfields and downtown Manhattan. Oh wait, that was over 50 years ago!

Nope, Columbia bought all of the ones that New York Airways and Pam am had in the early 70's.

This is the baby version of the shit hook