Crank Up and Pull Pitch
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- Опубліковано 13 лип 2015
- Saturday, July 11, 2015, 6:02 pm. Battle Ground, WA
For those of you who lack patience.. Jump ahead to 3:15. Otherwise, read the full description.
They were heading to the Columbia River Gorge in order to get photos of the two helicopters in flight. The delay in taking off was due to the two pilots discussing the route they were going to fly. I was standing there holding my camera and I confess to growing a bit impatient myself. ;-)
These two helicopters are David Statham's beautifully restored Vietnam Era OH-6 LOH and UH-1H Huey... with markings identifying them both as C Troop 7/17th Air Cavalry aircraft. A small group of us former Army Pilots and Aircrewmen were invited by our host to come to his place for a weekend of 'Lyin' & Flyin'. As for myself, a former member of C Troop, serving as a Cobra pilot in 1972, seeing and hearing these two aircraft operate sent chills down my spine. Although period correct, the Huey, built in 1971, never actually flew in Vietnam, so I'd guess you could call it a 'tribute' bird. The LOH is the real deal... flown in combat in Vietnam, and it actually was a C Troop LOH (Light Observation Helicopter).
Some of my Vietnam photos shot while serving with C Troop 7/17th Air Cavalry: museum.vhpa.org/17thcav/7thsq...
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The OH-6 Cayuse is a beautiful helicopter, I want it to remain operational for many more decades and never need replacing unnecessarily.
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.
@@casual9982 drones can, without the expensive pilots on board.
great little helo..
Oh OK!!! let's just stay in the 60's forever
Two of the coolest choppers ever made.
Great memories. I had the fortune to have flown both of theses helicopters while in the military. Thanks for sharing.
easy to fly?
@@bigal4304 They all are after a while.
The UH-1H Huey is a beautiful helicopter, I want it to remain operational for many more decades and never need replacing unnecessarily.
One of the most reliable, easy to maintain & crashworthy helicopters ever built!
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.
Many moons ago in my younger days, I flew both of those as a crew chief an WO. Great memories. Thanks for sharing.
They UH-1 Huey & the OH-6 Cayuse are some beautifully restored birds. Thankya'll for your services. God bless
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.
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Thank You for you service! Sir
must have been an honor to fly such a beauty
Watching the huey brought back some memories of flight school. Man, those were the days......
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.
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!
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...
Nothing like that sound, music to my ears.
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.
Ahhh, memories of my first UH-1 flight over southern Vietnam
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.
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.
Somebody "gets it"!
As I say to every Vet I meet, thank you for your service sir! Take care and God Bless.
Spawn 1960 yeh gta style
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.
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!
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*
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.
Joe Hawkins I was in C Troop, we had the circle. Scout pilot from September 68 to May 70
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.
i solute you sir
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.
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....
TY Mr. Steve Shepard. I found it mesmerizing.
..Wow, the sound of the Huey👌🏾‼️
the sound of the heuy is very satisfying
Just needs some stadium sized megaphones blasting Wagner's Ride of the Valkyries.....smells like.....victory
The Huey sound is pure music!
Get to da choppa!
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.
None better hey
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.
Everyone shake hands! Lol fastest and most fun helicopter I’ve ever flown . Brrrrrrdrrfdrrrr
Beautiful birds
Two helicopters that i love so much..fly both helicopter and still crave for more 😅
2 beautifully restored Vietnam treasures!! Simply awesome!
and this time you aren't referring to ladyboys
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.
Did you serve as a pilot in Vietnam?
@@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.
Superb sound
Beautiful rotar blades
Awesome video! Flew Hueys in the Guard
I spent many hrs on both those choppers as an aircraft electrician. Made many test flights. Miss those days!
Thank you for the great video well restored birds
Little bird: "brrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr..."
Huey: "jgjgjigjigjigjgjgjgjgjgigjgjgijgjigjg"
Lololol 😂
Duas Lendárias aeronaves, design que nunca envelhecem, Belas, belas, belas...
Oh how I'd love to fly those again . . . especially the LOH.
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.
I camped in Battle Ground, Wa. Interesting there was never a battle there. Beautiful Country out there.
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.
Crank up and Pull Pitch. That was back in the day. I miss the real Airmen that kicked ass and took names.
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.
Love the oh 6A and the uh1h
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 ;-)
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......
UH 1 sound is great！
sweet music to my ears
great shot of two copters on the ground running.
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! 😂
fighters and helicopters...they are great.
The Dynamic Duo...
Loved that chopper since apocalypse now and Magnum PI!!! Just mount two 0.50 cal and 4 sidewinders!!! Perfection!!!😁😎😃🏴☠️
Beautiful machines.
I just assumed it was a flexible helicopter ;-) Hey looks like you had a great time, Steve.
Excellent footage
Man..... I love to take a ride on this thing all day .
"That's what she said!"🤣
Very cool! Great post!
The sound of those rotors always meant that somebody was not coming back HOOAH!
Thanks for sharing Steve, we've got access to a little bird too ;)
I love this chopper......!
My younger brother Hugh was an AH-1G mechanic in Vietnam. He spent his time there at some place called Camp Eagle.
I,m not positive but I think Camp Eagle may have been at Bien Hoa AB ,,,Part of 101st Airborne
@@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.
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!
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
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Donald Parlett jr I see the Huey's fly over Bethesda, md all the time!
Corona ?
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.
I love the rumble seat.
Man, I hear that Lycoming engine tune up and “Fortunate Son” starts playing in my head.
Belgian Malinoit stupid me, until you posted your comment I thought LYCOMING only made piston engines.
That’s the beginning of a Sniffer mission absent the Cobra at about 2000 feet.
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.
love that LOH
Noce video!
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...
Correction to your comment: The Huey has a "Semi-Rigid Main Rotor System" ....and all semi-rigid rotors are 2-bladed. (Google It) ;-)
@@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!
Huey & a Loach! Spent some time in those in 1974-1976
Thank you for your Service Sir 🙏🙏
Great video Steve- I have a few MD500 videos on my 'channel' from inside the cockpit - but no Huey's!
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.....
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.
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!
That little Hughes 500 is a absolute little hot rod helicopter
fish or cut bait, aircraft run ups are so exciting!
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.
If you have to go down, make it a OH-6.
Howard Hughes under bid everyone else and the army paid less than 20k
1:30 Damn, it's so powerful it's bending space and time LOL
Love the Loach
Me too. Riding in one, in a non-combat environment, is great fun.
"Killer-Egg and Slick" NICE !!!
I like that.👍🤘🤙🇱🇷
Nam era warriors.
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.
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.
fantastic
Huey is so Awesome
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.
Awesome!
Those “ little birds “ were really nifty and effective….
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.
Oh so true brother!
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...
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.
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.
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
Need to hear " ride of the valkieres".
Beauty and the Beast.
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......
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. :-(
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.
Great work on the fps!!
I see the Huey....but what a cool copter that thing is....
Wow that's really tight in there in that little bird.
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
fine helicopters...
There’s ABSOLUTELY NOTHING in this world like piloting a helo...NOTHING
The most fun you can have with your pants on.....
@@marieschappacher5419..agreed.
I remember....1970- 1971
Damn, take off already!
Spool up & pull pitch.
"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.
I dig those little birds
Homefront buzzard
Reminds me of when I was in nam ,with the 1st cab as a door gunner
The smell of the helicopter's gas turbine engine exhaust still brings back good memories for me.
Steve Shepard yea that is a great feeling ,I get a rush when the cwo tells you to lock and load and then the lift off and flying looking down at the scuds and do the figure 8 as they unload the troops and your firing like all hell on the 50 the smell of cordite ,I used to be a grunt then I said fuck this and went air mobile that was the best thing I ever did