Crank Up and Pull Pitch

[@gianpaolovillani6321]

The OH-6 Cayuse is a beautiful helicopter, I want it to remain operational for many more decades and never need replacing unnecessarily.

[@casual9982]

I think it will remain for much longer, it's always been ahead of it's time and fills a role nothing else really can.

[@gdmoto4176]

@@casual9982 drones can, without the expensive pilots on board.

[@bigal4304]

great little helo..

Oh OK!!! let's just stay in the 60's forever

[@moriver3857]

Great memories. I had the fortune to have flown both of theses helicopters while in the military. Thanks for sharing.

[@bigal4304]

easy to fly?

[@waynearrington6727]

@@bigal4304 They all are after a while.

[@ronaldgreen5292]

If you are a "True!" A Aviation , or helicopter buff! You will never tire of this video, especially with the turbine sounds, and staring 2 of the best helicopters 🚁 ever made!!!💯💯👌👌👍👍

[@fufoot]

ALL RIGHT... Here's a man who gets it!

[@gianpaolovillani6321]

The UH-1H Huey is a beautiful helicopter, I want it to remain operational for many more decades and never need replacing unnecessarily.

[@javacup912]

I'm very fortunate to have flown both models, first as a crewchief, then as a warrant officer. Probably the best two helicopters even built in the utility role. Both still exists with some steroids added.

[@fufoot]

Did you serve as a pilot in Vietnam?

[@javacup912]

@@fufoot No, for better or worse. I joined in '77 and first went straight to the Huey. Then, most Hueys and Loaches we flew had plenty of patched bullet holes.

[@kenprier7413]

One of the most reliable, easy to maintain & crashworthy helicopters ever built!

[@mosesrivera8792]

Many moons ago in my younger days, I flew both of those as a crew chief an WO. Great memories. Thanks for sharing.

[@OurCamper]

Ahhh, this brings back memories. I was a scout crew chief in B Troop 7/17th 1970-71. The first thing I noticed here was the yellow circle. B Troop marking was a yellow square in the same location. The second thing that caught my eye was the tail number. One OH-6 I crewed was 16119. Missing on this LOH, is the narrow chicken plate that was mounted on the aft side of the pilot and observer's door, and none of our LOHs looked this good. Most of them were patched up from a bullet hole here and there, and displayed a lot of different shades of OD green paint and primer as a result of quick and dirty repairs to get them ready to fly another mission. Thanks for the memories.

[@richardmartines9867]

Joe Hawkins I was in C Troop, we had the circle. Scout pilot from September 68 to May 70

[@OurCamper]

Richard, I can't remember if you guys were at Camp Enari or near the coast in 1970. memory fades as the hair line recedes. We were at Camp Holloway outside of Pleiku.

[@jeff8565]

i solute you sir

[@richardmartines9867]

Joe Hawkins C Troop moved to Lane AAF maybe around March of 69. I was the Scout Platoon leader, I Extended for 6months, got my SIP check out in The OH6. SQ. Com. Move all the IP'S from every Troop up to Headquarters at Eneri. Eneri was closed down either late 69 or early 70, and we all moved up to Holloway. I left Holloway on May 5. Had a hard time getting out because that was the day we invaded Cambodia, and there was no Huey's available to get me up to the Air Forces Base. I got a ride in a jeer with some Private, He had a 45, I had no weapon. Scary ride.

[@stevetaylor9271]

that ship was from C trp 7/17. i flew and crewed that bird as an aero scout jul 70-jul 71. originally trained at ft Rucker on oh58's (jet rangers) but very few in 'Nam at the time. tuff little birds, saved my ass more times than i can remember. i made it back due to that little bird's durability. actually, my Idaho veteran's vehicle license plate reads OH6A....

[@Spawn-td8bf]

What a wonderful video. People seem to think you can just hop in, turn the key, and your off. The jet turbines take a while to spool up and then having to go through the whole checklist. The sound and anticipation are part of the thrill. Thank you for posting and sharing, God Bless from Florida.

[@fufoot]

Somebody "gets it"!

[@Spawn-td8bf]

As I say to every Vet I meet, thank you for your service sir! Take care and God Bless.

[@jamesedwards6589]

Spawn 1960 yeh gta style

[@justforever96]

I don't think that. I just don't really care to watch that part where they are just sitting there for five minutes with the engine running. Now if I could watch them performing the checklist maybe that would be different.

[@ed12151]

I was with HHT 1/17 at Ft. Bragg '75 - '78, I was a Rotor Specialist. I worked on the OH-58, UH -1H and the AH -1 J & S. Heard the OH -6 was easy to maintain, but they were long gone.

[@truckerray7533]

They UH-1 Huey & the OH-6 Cayuse are some beautifully restored birds. Thankya'll for your services. God bless

[@4406bbldb]

Rodney Leonard the Huey is hard to knock down ,i was hit it least 20 times from vary close range and flew away lost altitude and made it to shore. respect ,the gun boat had 27 mm? anti aircraft and one of our pilots. feb65.

[@fernandoucaneo1335]

@@4406bbldb ñ0

[@franciscosanchez9183]

@@4406bbldb .

[@franciscosanchez9183]

@@4406bbldb .mmz

[@dudehuh5491]

Thank You for you service! Sir must have been an honor to fly such a beauty

[@tooManywaystoFall]

Flew many times in one of these, back and forth Maui to Kahoolawe with one of the best chopper pilots I ever flew with, Tom Hauptman - I was Marine EOD, Tom supported us all the time...miss Hawaii, love the Loach...

[@frankthomas855]

Two of the coolest choppers ever made.

[@heeder777]

The ol Huey just beats to wind into submission. You can hear it miles away and know exactly what that sound is! Beautiful “Rotary” aircraft.

[@nedstudios6490]

My father loved that helicopter. His Vietnam stories about the Loach drivers. It's certainly an agile little sucker. I watched one not long ago on our distribution lines here in my home town. It was still as a hummingbird.

[@xGALAXYRADIOx]

Everyone shake hands! Lol fastest and most fun helicopter I’ve ever flown . Brrrrrrdrrfdrrrr

[@chrissmith7669]

Memories. Such great memories. They were not so great then, but through the lens of memory they’re all good. Army aviation 83 to 91.

[@moriver3857]

Nice to see these two together again, even on an older video. I flew both of those back in the late 70s and 80s. Great sound.

[@fufoot]

These two aircraft are the prized possessions of a friend of mine, a man of considerable means, and they will remain together for as long as he is capable of maintaining and flying them. He is the pilot of the OH-6 in this video. I shot this video nearly six years ago. Since then, I have shot many more videos of them, most recently on July 30, 2019. I expect to return and fly in them again and shoot more video this next summer.... While serving in Vietnam (Nov'71-Aug'72), I was a Cobra pilot and this particular OH-6 was one of the aircraft that flew with our unit (C Trp 7/17th Cav) while I served with them. Undoubtedly, I covered this 'Loach' on many occasions while operating as part of a 'pink-team' in Indian Country. Great times!

[@donaldedwards6896]

I'm working on that OH-6 right now actually! Definitely a cool machine. I think I'm the only one in the shop that actually enjoys working on these, which is because I'm the youngest and smallest one there! 😂

[@jeromewhelan6723]

Ahhh, memories of my first UH-1 flight over southern Vietnam

[@ovalwingnut]

You gotta love the mechanical nature of these things. A joy to watch even sitting on the ground. In reality, they don't fly, they "beat the air into submission". Thanks for posting!

[@ronaldgreen5292]

Never get tired of this video! 🙂

[@dgoddard]

I did my Air Assault test in Schofield Barracks, HI out of a Huey. I flew in almost everything that had wings or a rotor over there, but the Huey was my favorite. Awesome helicopters.

[@timflynn2136]

I camped in Battle Ground, Wa. Interesting there was never a battle there. Beautiful Country out there.

[@donaldparlettjr3295]

I loved the Loach. I remember back in the 80s the Mississippi Guard was getting rid of their birds and our state Maryland bought them up. We went out on the field to check them over. One of our many Nam vets stopped and said "no f*+kin' way!" We go up to one of the birds and he said " gotta check something" climbs on the ground and stared in awe. Found out he had been shot down in this very bird in Nam back in 68. Obviously been saved and here damn near 26 years later these two had come full circle. He always flew this bird whenever he could. A CW-4 can pull a little rank when needed. SCOUTS OUT! to the Air Cav( you know who you are you Corona swillin' fucks) damn I miss it!

[@fufoot]

In this video, the guy sitting in the left front seat (Wendel 'Windy' Moore) was a C Trp 7/17th Air Cav scout pilot in 1971... he flew this bird many times while in Vietnam. This event was a 'reunion' for him, and he flew out from Georgia to see it and fly in it again. I have a photo of him, at the age of 21, sitting in it. The guy sitting behind him (Steven Smith) was a UH-1 door-gunner in 1969... He was not Cav, but I'm not holding that against him. ;-) Some C Troop photos: tinyurl.com/y8lma7l6

[@พรปวีณ์เส้งหนู-ม1ส]

Donal_% d Parlett jr ฟช๐ขสๆ

[@timruskowski4923]

Donald Parlett jr I see the Huey's fly over Bethesda, md all the time!

[@Masters_Yukesh]

Corona ?

[@mikeohandley6765]

My younger brother Hugh was an AH-1G mechanic in Vietnam. He spent his time there at some place called Camp Eagle.

[@WestendAngst]

I,m not positive but I think Camp Eagle may have been at Bien Hoa AB ,,,Part of 101st Airborne

[@mikeohandley6765]

@@WestendAngst That makes sense. He wore a 101st shoulder patch. I was thinking that he said it was someplace called Phu Bai but not willing to trust my memory.

[@stevemizar4143]

I spent many hrs on both those choppers as an aircraft electrician. Made many test flights. Miss those days!

[@lukewarmwater6412]

at the crop dusting service where I used to work, they had a retired 1st air cav UH-1-b that was used for orchard spraying etc. I used to wait for it with a 3" delivery hose and huge clunky valve.... got to remember to let the skids touch or connecting that valve would shock the crap out of you!! static.....

[@The506trooper]

absolutely beautiful! I still get Goosebumps every time I Hear & see "the flying eye" & it's Big Brother the UH-1D¡ I'd give anything to seat in my seat ( Right side protecting the pilot with M60 Thank you guys for keeping up the memory of the Vietnam War and its helicopters. *God Bless ya*

[@tylerbuckley4661]

Love the oh 6A and the uh1h

[@fufoot]

Me too.... But the AH1G Cobra was my dream since the first time I saw one. When I was selected to go to the transition course upon completion of flight school, my dream came true.... I still think there were only two types of helicopter pilots in Vietnam... Those who flew Cobras, and those who wished they could. heehee ;-)

[@songsinthedrawer]

Awesome video! Flew Hueys in the Guard

[@robertsmith1170]

Made those sounds many times. Many hours on ramp in maintenance, runups, blade tracking and then test flights. Sadly last was in 78. Both RVN tours were in maintenance units.

[@fufoot]

Thank you for your service. Guys like you made it possible to for guys like me to do our job. museum.vhpa.org/17thcav/7thsquad/7thsquadCTroop.shtml

[@scottporter4871]

The 60's, man what a time to be alive! Bad ass cars, fantastic music, the men were classy and stylish, the women were beautiful and had morals. Look at the shit state of everything now, it's fukking embarrassing what we have turned into. I bet it wasn't so much fun 'in the shit' as they say.

[@spogmyer1994]

the sound of the heuy is very satisfying

[@kellyjackson7889]

Just needs some stadium sized megaphones blasting Wagner's Ride of the Valkyries.....smells like.....victory

[@luizribas543]

The Huey sound is pure music!

[@we-zk7xp]

Get to da choppa!

[@gitarthaborgohain377]

But I like that helicopter is non heuy helicopter that is small one. It is need also but for multipurpose essential using for ministers traveling in Assam ministers.

[@Gus1966-c9o]

None better hey

[@LousTube]

Great work on the fps!!

[@shanecreel3867]

Watching the huey brought back some memories of flight school. Man, those were the days......

[@mickmcloughlin1646]

Scout pilots. Good God, how the hell did any of you make it home alive with the missions you flew over there? Bless you all.

[@Vodoo954]

If you have to go down, make it a OH-6.

[@douglasgay4497]

Howard Hughes under bid everyone else and the army paid less than 20k

[@waynearrington6727]

Unfortunately the OH6 was replaced in the early 70s by the OH58. However the Loach lives on in the guise of the MH6. I have lots of hours in the UH Bell 204/205 series as well as in the Hughes OH6A and 500D. Flying shake blocks out on the Olympic Peninsula during the 80s was huge fun. Spent 28 years flying logs, mostly in some flavor of 204/205/214/UH1s/Kamax/Husky/Lama. The OH6 was the most fun. Managed to live through it all and am retired now. Mama, don't let your sons or daughters grow up to be helicopter pilots. If they ever express an interest in becoming a helicopter pilot be kind and smother them in their sleep. Save them the divorces, the disillusionment, the financial ruin......

[@fufoot]

I was a Cobra pilot: museum.vhpa.org/17thcav/7thsquad/7thsquadCTroop.shtml ... I originally hoped I would have a career as an Army Aviator, followed by another career in civilian aviation... It wasn't in the cards. A single 12.7 mm armor piercing round through my left ankle and right foot cut my Vietnam tour short and ended my career as an Army Aviator. I was medically retired as a CW2 at the age of 23. I ended up getting a degree in accounting and became a bean-counter. I hated it. I envy anyone who was able to make a career in rotary wing aircraft. I know many who did. Three of my Air-Cav troop-mates went on to fly for the airlines... That's like driving a bus. :-(

[@jeffreypinder9398]

Do you know who owned quite a bit of shares of Bell Helicopter back in the mid 60's? Lady Bird Johnson...wife of LBJ.

[@ExtremeRecluse]

My medevac commander allowed me to take an orientation flight in guest units loach. What a powerful aircraft! I told the IP at the time to give me a quick demo. The first maneuver was maximum vertical climb to 1000’ AGL. With only two people on board and 1/4 tank of gas it performed like a rocket. Next was NOE, pop up, duck, reposition and pop up again. It was a lot of fun. This national guard units have old equipment but so maneuverable. The IP let me take the controls for 5 minutes and landing.

[@waynearrington6727]

During my transition to the OH6 at Cu Chi we did 100' hovering autorotations to the paved airstrip. Then we moved on to flying down the centerline at 20' and a hundred knots and rolling the throttle off trading airspeed for altitude doing a 360 degree autorotation to a touchdown. That was only the beginning of the amazing things that aircraft can do. Spent 9 months as a scout pilot. What an experience.

[@alabamaprep7145]

OH-6 Beacon should have been on before rotation.

[@fufoot]

The owner/pilot was never in the military. I've never seen him use a checklist during start-up, which may explain the oversight. He bought the OH-6 for recreational use (and had it restored)... after he bought the Huey. Very deep pockets

[@ronaldgreen5292]

Some of you commenters said that the beginning of the video was a waste of time?! No sir, that was part of the best. The Hughy helicopter was sitting there idling, while the oh6, loach was just starting up. Man, that tail-rotor on than hughy was mesmerizing, almost, hypnotic!! Especially when it was taking off!

[@extremereclusefallows5779]

I got to fly a loach when an Army National Guard Unit was doing an AT at Ft Stewart, GA. Was assigned to 3/498 Evac at Wright Army Airfield in 92. Luckily an IP was flying it. My commander allowed it, so I jumped at the chance. 1/4 tank of fuel and 350 pounds of crew made for a very agile aircraft.

[@m118lr]

Gotta LOVE that Huey even with the Rigid/2-bladed rotor system, BUT I’d STILL rather have the fully articulated Loach though. A dream helo...

[@fufoot]

Correction to your comment: The Huey has a "Semi-Rigid Main Rotor System" ....and all semi-rigid rotors are 2-bladed. (Google It) ;-)

[@m118lr]

@@fufootuhh yeah, I dropped a “technical” aspect of the description I suppose. I DO know..but didn’t include for WHATEVER REASON I can’t think of RIGHT now..the FULL description in my post. My bad..? There’sONLY 2 choices with these birds: Semi-rigid OR fully-articulated. Both VERY different..obviously. Wish I’d seen YOUR post earlier. Like 4+YEARS earlier!

[@sajidmahmoodkhan3408]

Superb sound Beautiful rotar blades

[@puterausman7682]

Two helicopters that i love so much..fly both helicopter and still crave for more 😅

[@brucehinds7269]

Oh how I'd love to fly those again . . . especially the LOH.

[@fufoot]

Did you expand and read the full description I wrote above? I flew Snakes and spent many hours flying left-hand orbits over LOH's while they worked the AO in II Corps. In fact, I often flew cover over this very bird in '72. I never flew LOH's during my tour but often thought it would be fun... were it not for the danger of flying low and slow in Indian Country.

[@mambaman3632]

Did the little bird wobble from 1:32 to 1:35? WTF!

[@fufoot]

My camera wobbled.. ;-) I was holding my camera freehand and took two steps backward. KZbin's image stabilization software incorrectly compensated for it. Here is the same video without the KZbin image stabilization: kzbin.info/www/bejne/jImZepientyfkNE

[@stuartdurbin4441]

great shot of two copters on the ground running.

[@brendaproffitt1011]

Totally awesome army's helicopters and powerful fast different propellers What it looks like.great takes offs too.you done an excellent job..Thank you so so much for your videos......

[@justinc5284]

Anyone else see the puff of smoke at 4:07..?

[@knotgood2598]

TY Mr. Steve Shepard. I found it mesmerizing.

[@IchlasulAmmal]

Little bird: "brrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr..." Huey: "jgjgjigjigjigjgjgjgjgjgigjgjgijgjigjg"

[@ronaldgreen5292]

Lololol 😂

[@travistexas7175]

Beautiful aircraft, both count as the number one and two best helicopters of all time in my book. Being from Vancouver, WA I couldn't help but feel the trees seemed familiar and then I saw Battle Ground. Very cool to see these in my neck of the woods.

[@weparty]

I flew in one of those little LOHs from Can Tho to Sai Gon and the pilot let me have a fly. The way he described it, it was pretty easy. Just maintain airspeed and altitude. Well, I got the speed right and lost altitude or I got the altitude right and gained speed. Sort of kangarood my way through the sky. Still it was fun.

[@walterwhitaker1395]

The sound of those rotors always meant that somebody was not coming back HOOAH!

[@drolds6522]

2 beautifully restored Vietnam treasures!! Simply awesome!

[@kellyjackson7889]

and this time you aren't referring to ladyboys

[@thomasmetz3]

Huey & a Loach! Spent some time in those in 1974-1976

[@lindagrieve3109]

Thank you for your Service Sir 🙏🙏

[@jamesbrock7231]

Thank you for the great video well restored birds

[@jayconnors998]

I see the Huey....but what a cool copter that thing is....

[@johnbrandonjr]

Crank up and Pull Pitch. That was back in the day. I miss the real Airmen that kicked ass and took names.

[@heeder777]

johnbrandonjr They still do! Just with better equipment. The previous regime tied their hands to a ridiculous point. This President turned them loose and let them do what they trained to do. Kickass and take names without asking mommy if it’s OK.

[@m118lr]

There’s ABSOLUTELY NOTHING in this world like piloting a helo...NOTHING

[@marieschappacher5419]

The most fun you can have with your pants on.....

[@m118lr]

@@marieschappacher5419..agreed.

[@Workerbee-zy5nx]

Nam era warriors.

[@tayninh69]

If there was one thing I learned early on in my tour in Vietnam, it was to never tell an OH-6 pilot that it was the first time riding in one of those birds. Those guys could scare the crap out of someone.

[@geod3589]

Oh so true brother!

[@CharlieGroh]

Haha...one of my favorite things! (...if there's another loach driver around and you're about ready to give a ride to somebody you'd hear, just for your ears, "...make him puke.") Best time of my life, doing that gig...

[@waynearrington6727]

I used to find targets for the Issue FACS flying out of Cu Chi. Talked one of the pilots into riding in the left seat of an OH6 on a non risky dusk patrol around Cu Chi. He got to shoot the M60 and throw smoke grenades. Then we started maneuvering: In three minutes he was puking all over the left side of the ship. He had two tours in Phantoms and was doing a FAC tour. He never lived it down.......He gave me a ride in his OV-10 and tried his best to make me sick. I fell asleep enjoying the A/C.

[@ronaldgreen5292]

That little Hughes 500 is a absolute little hot rod helicopter

[@forwardobserver2048]

That’s the beginning of a Sniffer mission absent the Cobra at about 2000 feet.

[@geraldichoung-thoe358]

..Wow, the sound of the Huey👌🏾‼️

[@pheels]

Two aircraft that are still in production in modified form ie boeing md530 and bell412

[@greggroover4437]

Sometimes I see the smaller helicopter flying over my house in Mountainbrook Alabama but there was one time I saw the Huey helicopter in the distance I was so surprised because I think that I hat never seen one before your in real life

[@slowpoke96Z28]

Glitch in the Matrix at 1:33 lol.

[@rickdee67]

Beautiful birds

[@belgianmalinoit9665]

Man, I hear that Lycoming engine tune up and “Fortunate Son” starts playing in my head.

[@Dixler683]

Belgian Malinoit stupid me, until you posted your comment I thought LYCOMING only made piston engines.

[@fighterpilot5105]

The Dynamic Duo...

[@lorenzodunn3226]

Excellent footage

LOCH never rode in one. but got Shot at by one :-/ calledf it the Flying Football ;-) fantastic choppers BOTH.. Hueys flew us into and out of some very sticky situations..

[@bobmorin6419]

Loved that chopper since apocalypse now and Magnum PI!!! Just mount two 0.50 cal and 4 sidewinders!!! Perfection!!!😁😎😃🏴‍☠️

[@cptairwolf]

1:30 Damn, it's so powerful it's bending space and time LOL

[@moto5914]

I flew the OH-58D Kiowa Warrior as a member of C Troop 7-17 Cav in Afghanistan...”Try Me” Scouts out!

[@harrihiltunen3126]

fighters and helicopters...they are great.

[@milesbrown8016]

Those “ little birds “ were really nifty and effective….

[@tomwatson9032]

The Cayuse is a lot smaller than I remembered.

[@fufoot]

We often referred to them as "little birds'... Actually, we had several designations and/or nick-names for the Hughes OH-6. The funny thing is, "Cayuse" wasn't one of them. ;-)

[@johnsmith7622]

I heard that with the LOACH... (light observation helicopter) if you set down too hard... say, an autorotation... the rear skid struts could be driven upwards and puncture the fuel cell.... resulting in , unfortunately, a fiery death for its occupants.... Is this true?

[@fufoot]

I can't say whether that is true.. I do know that the LOH was an incredibly crashworthy aircraft. I know many pilots who survived terrible crashes in them after being shot down... and flew again... Often on the same day.

[@Afrocanuk]

Spool up & pull pitch.

[@fufoot]

"Spool up"... I like that better than my title... I have a couple more videos I need to upload. I will use 'spool up' in one or more titles. Thanks.

[@mannygarcia1810]

Did that Huey had a compressor stall right at takeoff? Check out the puff of smoke right at takeoff.

[@CharlieGroh]

...I flew Loach and crashed a couple of times (not even a scratch!) we flew with observers (hard corps M60 guys, and could toss bombs like champs) in the left seat...the back was reserved for ammo cannister for my mini gun which was level with the floorboard and I'd just point the aircraft and hose, and belted 7.62 for my Oscar's M60. It was like driving a Ferrari none of that pussy hydraulic shit. When taking fire you do some crazy flying, lemme tell ya! But, maybe my best memory of flight school days was my first time piloting a Huey....MAN it's a dammed Caddy! Well, compared to that little buzz-bomb Hughes 300 we trained in, anyhow. If somebody would trust me, I'd fly that OH-6 RIGHT NOW! ;0)

[@fufoot]

Hey Charlie... ( 70-71 B/7/1 CAV, Callsign: BIG UGLY 15)....If you ain't Cav, you ain't S____ ! ... I was class 71-23 at Rucker. Flew snakes with C/7/17 Cav (later re-flagged as H Trp 10th Cav in April'72) in II Corps. I watched plenty of Loaches doing the crazy dance when taking fire and saw a few go down, not always crashing. Loach crashes are relatively survivable, provided you didn't crash into something solid and there was no fire (and you weren't seriously wounded by gunfire). In spring of '72. I watched two of them, in separate incidents, get shot up, crash and erupt in balls of fire... and man do they burn! I covered the teams who went in to recover the crews. That's tough duty for the guys who have to put what was left into body bags..... I've gotten some stick time in the Loach in this video, as recently as July 2021. They are great fun when flown at tree-top-level in an environment where nobody wants to shoot you. But I have arthritis in my right wrist and that cyclic was brutal... and it has way too much feedback for me... I much prefer the hydraulics in Snakes.

[@CharlieGroh]

@@fufoot my roomie was a Snake driver and I went up often with him to fly Firefly...and got some back seat time too! Sweeeeeeet airplane! Interesting that you saw scouts burn, are you sure you weren't seeing 58's? Those Bell products were the burners...I never heard of an OH-6A burning, but that's anecdotal, of course. I crashed in one straight into the ground and walked away, another time had a tail rotor failure in a revetment (now, THAT was scary!)...*many* of my fellow scouts augered-in ($5 to Yeager) and nobody ever burned and *most* walked away...one guy got shot down 10 times! Well, whatever...Welcome Home brother!

[@fufoot]

@@CharlieGroh ... I never saw a 58 in RVN. We were a typical Air Cav unit with OH-6's, Snakes and Slicks (with a blues platoon). Both of the crash and burn incidents I witnessed were the immediate result of catastrophic volumes of ground fire from crew-served weapons.... the first one (19APR72) was trailing smoke before impact, when it immediately erupted in flames, both crewmen were probably shot to shit, and there was no doubt they had been killed. The second incident (25MAY72) occurred on the south side of Kontum. The Loach, flying on the deck, was shot-up, crashed in an open field, directly in front of the bad-guys who likely continued shooting. The fire erupted within 3 seconds... This was during the Easter Offensive of '72 ( www.thebattleofkontum.com/ ) and the bad guys we were up against (Regimental strength NVA units) were well trained and equipped.... tanks, radar controlled 38mm Anti-Aircraft guns, SA-7 shoulder-launched heat-seeking missiles, you name it, they had it.

[@CharlieGroh]

@@fufoot Steve, I believe! They took my troop from the Delta to the DMZ to do Lom San 79...*that* was bad sh*t and we didn't need to "scout" anything, we *knew* where they were! And they, also, were well equiped and trained and in force!

[@madeiraaviacaocomercial186]

Noce video!

[@alestudio_fm_8013]

Duas Lendárias aeronaves, design que nunca envelhecem, Belas, belas, belas...

[@sylvesterstewart868]

Where's the guy with the bugle?

[@8150rick]

I just assumed it was a flexible helicopter ;-) Hey looks like you had a great time, Steve.

[@Incognito-vc9wj]

Read it again, it says “Pitch”

[@junkerju58]

The notar tail rotor of the MD helicopters, is it's answer to the fenestron tail rotor of eurocopters. Both system offer safety. Can't compare maintenance of both system to the conventional tail rotor as I am no heli mechanic. The raised tail rotors found in Blackhawks, Hueys, BO 105 including the super stallions could be the answer to reducing safety concerns while they are on the ground aside from better flight characteristic.

[@nvdwarriorLtc]

That loach tail rotor is ugly when someone walks into it. In my unit, it happened, the forward observer lived after 25 surgeries.....only thing to save him was his flight helmet...the blade tip caught the front visor and rolled him backwards.....not something any helicopter pilot can ever forget.

[@TheKillerboy85]

sweet music to my ears

[@EdWhisenantAviation]

All I can say is WOW! glad you hung in and got this GREAT Footage, a Huge thank you for the video, "I subscribed" If you ever see my channel you will see how much I Love Helicopters.

[@fufoot]

Ed, I just took a quick look. tinyurl.com/yysbcxlv ... There is a lot to take in..... I have many more videos to upload and I regret that I have been lax in not following through. Often, some of the negative comments have made me angry and reluctant to upload more. Know that I have improved and have taken some of the criticism to heart and learned to edit. I am not entirely happy with my shooting skills, however. Smooth panning requires practice and a fluid-dampened video-head on a tripod (or possibly a stabilized gimbal mount). I promise to upload more videos as I have a lot of subscribers and feel a bit obligated. Cheers and thank you... Shep

[@EdWhisenantAviation]

@@fufoot Thank you for checking it out, ya I here ya about being obligated, I have over 12.7K subscribers and it's very hard to keep up with all the comments and I also started a train channel named E&G Trains

[@jamesdavies7526]

fish or cut bait, aircraft run ups are so exciting!

[@walterwhitaker1395]

My Brother-in-law may he rest in peace said to me once I'm not sure what was worse the insertion or the extraction!

[@chrisberry3048]

That start to lift delay is unnacceptable. There must be a way of getting revolutions, oil temp/pressure etc to green faster. I sas Blackwater lift the little birds from the Green zone in Baghdad in half the time

[@ericshimer6669]

Outside temperatures and air pressure where they are is alot different then Baghdad. Take account mountains is colder then desert.

[@neriksen]

What happened to the video 3:40 it warped. Anyone know what that is.

[@michaelarcher9770]

I saw the glitch in the matrix at 3:30 Mark. WOW!

[@dang25272549]

Man..... I love to take a ride on this thing all day .

[@mickmuzzmkmz1628]

"That's what she said!"🤣

[@sanfranciscobay]

1:30 - 1:35 A Black Hole must have passed by causing the time warp to the helicopter : - )

[@GeorgeAPadilla]

I noticed that. I think it was caused by a phenomenon called resonance. You probably remember the physics class where the Tacoma Bridge collapses due to wind sheer. Some of these craft had weird tendencies to wobble or violently vibrate at a certain frequency. I hadn't seen this before though. The pilots are well aware of these and they like to increase (maybe decrease too on landing) the rpm to get out of that.

[@sanfranciscobay]

It's caused from the Image Stabilization feature that youtube offers the person who posted the video to make it appear to be smoother.

[@GeorgeAPadilla]

You had me wondering about your credibility with the black hole thing, but now I believe you got the explanation spot on. Explains why the bendiness ...

[@hughvane]

Yep, it's known as the 'jelly heli'.

[@penchant1972]

The Matrix reset...

[@shawncheng404]

UH 1 sound is great！