1970s HUGHES POLICE PATROL HELICOPTERS PROMO FILM MODEL 300CQ SKY KNIGHT XD49894

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This 1970s promotional film showcases the new and improved model 300CQ Sky Knight helicopters. At the time, these helicopters were being introduced into police fleets. The "Sky Knight" model was a purpose-built 300C for urban police patrols, with a muffler and other noise attenuating materials and design changes to reduce the helicopter's noise signature by 75%. The Sky Knight was a development of the Hughes 269 light utility helicopter and was first produced in the early 1960s. It was later manufactured by Schweizer Aircraft, and currently produced by Schweizer RSG. The basic design has now been in production for over 50 years. It features a single, three-bladed main rotor and piston-powered engine, and is mostly used today as a cost-effective platform for training and agriculture.
Peter J. Pitchess, the Sheriff of Los Angeles, stands in front of a Sky Knight helicopter describing how helicopters can benefit the police force (00:09). Close up the signage on a helicopter reads “City of Long Beach Incorporated 1897 Police Department.” The helicopter rises and flies over the harbor and a large ship, the retired RMS Queen Mary. Montage of different helicopters flying over cities such as Tampa, Houston, Kansas City, Phoenix and San Francisco (00:32). Two police officers take off. Shots of the Hughes 300CQ helicopters flying and taking off. Thomas Richard Stuelpnagel aka Tom Stuelpnagel, the Vice President (and later President) of Hughes Helicopters, speaks about their less noisy helicopters in a press briefing on the tarmac (1:21). He gestures to a muffler on the engine before an audience of reporters. Close up of the muffler and signage that reads “Hughes Sky Knight” (2:11). The new helicopter demonstrates the reduced noise level. Aerial view of the golden gate bridge and billowing clouds (3:08). The helicopter flies over San Francisco. San Francisco Police Chief Donald M. Scott, writes at his desk in uniform (3:21). He talks about the cities modified and quit helicopter fleet. The helicopter lands in front of a man.
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[@Oliverdobbins]

Looks like an ingenious product! I’ll take a dozen!

[@therealxunil2]

So all that R&D and the result was: slow down and put a muffler on it.

[@damanyocum149]

Nice bird but doesn't look as sturdy as the JetRanger the helo most big city departments like LAPD went with for air operations

[@jeffkaczmarek3577]

The taxpayers would prefer they choose the cheaper helicopter. It's bad enough we are already forced to fork over hundreds of dollars each year to fund the paychecks, patrol cars, lawsuit payouts, paid suspensions, pensions and overly pompus pig funeral parades of those blue costume wearing welfare queens.

[@keithmoore5306]

surprisingly these things are as tough as an old boot!!

[@paulbourgeois4491]

The same Hughes as Hughes Tool from Houston Texas, (now Baker Hughes Tool) where they manufacture some of the most advanced oil drilling equipment in the entire industry. I was an Industrial Union Blacksmith at the now closed Interstate Drop Forge in Milwaukee, we had numerous contracts with Hughes for oil bit tooling and aircraft parts, all Forged on our hammers and forge presses. Got to tour Hughes in 1999 as a Union Blacksmith representative, so they could introduce and explain new manufacturing methods to us, and then we would go back to Milwaukee, and train our crews of Blacksmiths on the new technology. I still live in Milwaukee, but Interstate was sold in 2002, and by 2003, the Company was closed, our work was sent to Pakistan, ostensibly to save labor costs. I can't imagine Pakistan forging anything but defective material, Hughes dropped their orders with us when they found out Pakistan would be making the parts from then on. Sad damn story, I loved working at Interstate, we had our own credit union and investment plans for retirement. I was there for almost 20 years, and am retired now. Baker Hughes Tool remains at the very pinnacle of oilfield services to this day. Fascinating place! Cheers.

[@woodwaker1]

Now they need bullet proof versions for protection from the ground

[@keithmoore5306]

today they need fully armed cobra gunships!!!

[@jaredevildog6343]

Love the music.

[@Occasion77]

Would love to see more Hughes films especially for the MD500/Hughes OH-6

[@TheRealNashvilleLimo]

we need guys like Donald M Scott back in charge of the police! MAGA!!!

[@keithmoore5306]

screw the noise most cities are now war zones the issue is what kind of ordinance and armor can it carry!! they need fully armed cobras!!!

[@jeffw5263]

As my Dad used to say, “some people would complain if they were hung with a new rope.” Maybe it wasn’t the noise that bothered people so much, but the thought that it signaled there is crime happening so close to home.

[@keithmoore5306]

the complaining were either the criminals themselves or their mothers!!!

[@phatboizbackyardkustomz9006]

Wonder if that was the same technology used in the CIAs Hughes 500 The Quite One in Vietnam.

[@PeterEdin]

I'll buy one to see me through until I get my paws on the Bell 206 JetRanger.

[@jonmeek3879]

Flew in the 300D model Loved it

[@bernardanderson3758]

This is cheapest to get your Helicopter Rated in if I could find one

[@keithmoore5306]

i think the Robertson beats it now!

[@Doodlesthegreat]

When pigs fly.

[@airborneleo5589]

I owned this aircraft in the military version, it is called the Hughes TH-55 Osage. Mine was an ARMY primary flight trainer at Fort Rucker Alabama. Sweitzer, bought the rights to the aircraft, and still produces it. The aircraft is very safe and reliable, but is piston powered, turbine powered helicopters are preferred, but cost prohibitive for training.

[@phatboizbackyardkustomz9006]

Think Sikorsky Bought out Swiezer a couple of years ago

[@bernardanderson3758]

A lot of pilots I’ve spoken with didn’t like the 300C models because of the drive belt system

[@marstondavis]

I'll take two! Wrap 'em to go.

[@steveturner3999]

From this first to the present day. San Francisco sure went back to the Stone Age. Love this chopper.

[@dank3151]

Me and all my friends have been chased by that Kansas city helicopter back in the day.

[@douglasharley2440]

lol, the police-industrial complex was alive-and-well, even back then. *smfh*

[@paulbourgeois4491]

Hey, hey I made good money forging parts for Hughes back in the 80s and 90s at a plant in Milwaukee that is now closed. Those contracts brought us millions of dollars in work and I always appreciated Hughes for their contracts. Same goes for Dept of Defense. I'm proud to say I made a living forging parts for national security and for aircraft and aerospace.

[@douglasharley2440]

@@paulbourgeois4491 lol, i bet you _are._

[@ArmpitStudios]

@@douglasharley2440 🙄 There should be a tin foil hat emoji.

[@douglasharley2440]

@@ArmpitStudios make your own, fool.

[@afterhourshotrods6882]

After hearing this sound of progress¿? But I thought it was quite??! Lol.......