UH-72 Lakota Helicopters at Fort Rucker, Alabama for Training

[@airailimages]

Airailimages visited the U.S. Army Aviation Museum at Fort Rucker in 2016. Take a look: kzbin.info/www/bejne/jmLKead7nLplbNU

[@pjames6172]

A UH-72 Lakota flew over my house near Ft. Johnson, LA a couple of days ago. Beautiful Helicopter 🫡

[@Pimpdown24]

Definitely my favorite military helicopter

[@campbellmarty36]

Well… bless your heart!!!☝️🙄

[@Pimpdown24]

@@campbellmarty36 do you feel that was necessary?

[@dimitrikissov4947]

Did my primary checkride at Allen. The UH-72 is great for any mission, just not training. You can't do touchdown autorotations in this acft, hence why the Navy went with the TH-73. Not to long ago the Army decided to stop using the stability augmentation feature on this acft during initial training. I later taught in UH-1's and TH-67's. 67's (Bell 206B3) were squirrely as all get up but made students learn fast. The old Huey would let you leave the student to screw up most of an auto and have plenty of rotor inertia to spare. Maybe.... someday the Army will wise up and get the TH-73. Doubt it unless they get some massive funding increase.

[@airailimages]

That's informative background info. Thanks for writing, and thanks for watching.

[@geddon436]

why can't they do touchdown autos?

[@dimitrikissov4947]

@@geddon436 There to easy to damage if not done perfectly, and no student does one perfect for quite a while.

[@owen33333]

I thought that looked like Allen! I was a contract eval SP 92-94 at Rucker. I had to leave in 94 as DA decided that I needed to go back to Korea as a maintenance test pilot. 🤔

[@ChiefAUS]

That was a lot of helicopters with nobody running into each other. lol Thanks for the video.

[@airailimages]

You bet

[@DevilDolphin734]

I used to see those in my area all the time. I think they were training in central PA at that time.

[@Nexala17]

That first pickup was ROUGH

[@chrissmith7669]

I miss the ole Bell 47. A really basic machine

[@airailimages]

Yes -- I've had a few flights in 47s over the years, and enjoyed the perch. Thanks for watching and commenting.

[@nightwing.3378]

Denmark come buys this to replace Fennec.

[@davidstewart6475]

I see them every day. They buzz my house day and night just above the trees. It has gotten very old and flight command won't do anything about it. And I live 50 miles from Rucker.

[@LeeDavis17]

sound of freedom

[@8ch6d]

Not true at all unless you live directly next to a Basefield, RT or inside an NOE box. "Fly Friendly" says 500' slant range from houses while flying.

[@cletus2199]

Maybe don't buy a house near Fort Rucker, then.

[@20-inch-arms]

I feel your pain David Stewart. We lived near a base field for 6 years, and everything was cool until COVID. PreCovid, the pilots stayed away from our houses, and were respectful. Post COVID, the pilots flew those damn Blackhawks over our house from 8 a.m. to after midnight. I actually think the pilots used our houses as landmarks. And when I say they flew OVER our houses, that's just the f@ck what they did. I called the noise mitigation officer 3 times before the idiot came out. He stood in my front yard and had to stop talking as the choppers came over because we could not hear each other 3 feet apart. 3 days later, we get a text that there is nothing they can do. We sold out and left. Don't let these other @ssholes tell you that your noise problem wasn't bad, I'm sure it was just like ours. I don't miss f@cking Rucker one bit, or the @sdholes that fly the choppers.

[@Mrd1_j6665]

Always one Stooge that has to say something negative..

[@williams6206]

This is the worst us heli ever

[@robbienewberry6402]

I think you’re the guy that flunked out of flight school at Rucker! 😂

[@budfudlackerinc.1900]

How so?

[@black_baron_net]

☠BLACK BARON☠ 3:40 For a helicopter of a rather smaller size compared to other military sized helicopters, I think it's well designed, well built, robust, reliable, maintenance friendly and offers plenty of space and transport capability. The space factor inside is huge ... for a helicopter of that size. 6:16 It looks like real training and training is important for pilots.

[@markchapoy8373]

if its good enough for medical transport companies across the united states due to its reliability and space then its good for a mid sized med evac helicopter or scout helicopter

[@8ch6d]

I agree. Worst decision for an Initial and Tactical flight training aircraft and only good for Instruments. Many IPs share the same sentiment.