climbed around those damn things for 15 years. in ~1800 hours and 1530 combat hours this thing got me home every single time. had a few wild rides but never let me down
If this thing is like a Bravo model Seahawk then its very loud and uncomfortable. Cranials hurt after a while lol and rubbing your ears for relief is loud af if you dont have foamies in...I have flown in Sierra models of Seahawk and they are alot more tolerable. 47 and 53 werent bad to fly in I didnt think...
Helicopter Doctor I love the Sikorsky UH 60 Blackhawk so very much and I adore her so very much, the noise of the engine is simply amazing, awesome, fascinating, adorable and so majestic to listen, the whole helicopter is so sususususupercool and astonishing to see, I say it again and again and again I love this helicopter! Lovely greetings from Sarah and have a wonderful, happy and peaceful day and stay safe out there and take care of you 🇺🇸💖👍🇺🇸💖👍🇺🇸💖👍🇺🇸💖👍🇺🇸💖👍
How my guys preferred to fly Med, slick with only 3 seats in the cabin two for the crew cheifs and the Medic's back left right up against the LH cabin door. Gave you the most of the cabin floor for patients and the Medics would have the aft bulkhead to hang basically a dresser full of all of their kit with backboards hung on the ceiling, quick and easy load and unloading with full access to all sides of the patients unlike with the internally mounted center carousel or other system which pulled out the two crew chief seats was way harder to load not mention the weight from those systems. Really the only additional weight and cabin space we'd be willing to sacrifice is if we'd need to mount Robbie tanks in which case the Medics seat move up in between the two crew chiefs.
I was around these birds for eight years and not a day goes by that I miss that sound of those GE701's especially when they make that cool Blackhawk noise as the No. 1 engine starts up and the M/R blades start turning...…. And man do I miss flying with them doing NOE flights, skimming lakes, and scaring convoys/ patrols off the roads because we were so low that the only thing above the tree tops was the M&T/Rs . And also just putting it out there, people think Med pilots are simple bus drivers like them A-bat boys? Oh no, I swear some of my pilots weren't right in the head but man could they fly and stay inside that "Golden hour". -C 2-211th Medevac Though one nice thing is my house is right by my local airport and as such I still get to hear and see them when they're flying approaches or just bombing around the area.
That's the crew chief and it's a long cable to plug his helmet into. He's watching each engine as they start it to ensure that there are no fires/leaks/etc among other things.
Nice Clear Video. I was a Black Hawk crew chief and TI back in the late 80's early 90,s. I loved that bird! A comment below was asking about the UH-60 tendency to tilt left on lift off. The reason is the main transmission module is placed just to the left of center of gravity for the air frame. Thus it is slightly lighter on the right side and it lifts off first
SuperBlackhawkdriver Not to be a douche, but Paul Humphrey is probably right. Translation tenancy does exist in rotary wing flight, however it causes more of a lateral "drift" than a "roll". The tail rotor isn't angled nearly enough to cause that much roll. Also, the tail rotor deflects air to the left side of the aircraft to counteract the clockwise yawing tenancy of the fuselage. So even if the tail rotor could cause significant rolling/banking movement, it would cause a right hand roll instead of the left hand roll you see here. Translating tendency is defined by the textbooks as: "The tendency for a single rotor helicopter to drift laterally, due to tail rotor thrust." Note that it doesn't say "roll" to the left. Just a friendly correction :)
Andre Morgan Let me correct a friendly correction that is incorrect... By the looks of your profile, you work with CH-47s, which do not have to worry about translating tendency due to their counter-rotating rotor system. UH-60s, on the other hand, do have to compensate for translating tendency. Luckily for us pilots, the BlackHawk's flight control system gives us a little help, through the Mechanical Mixing Unit (MMU), so that we don't have to work as hard up in the cockpit. "Collective to Roll" and "Collective to Yaw" compensation are a couple of the MMU functions. As we increase the collective, those GE-701 engines start creating a whole lot of torque to keep our main rotor at 100%. Normally, to compensate for that torque, a pilot would add some left pedal to keep the aircraft from spinning in the opposite direction of the rotor system, which in the case of a BlackHawk would be to the right (since our blades rotate counter-clockwise). The MMU automatically increases the pitch in the tail rotor blades (left pedal) to counter-act the increase in torque; that is the "Collective to Yaw" function. Now, since the UH-60 has a pretty beefy, puller type tail rotor (it actually contributes 2.5% of our total lift due to the 20 degree cant... which might not sound like a lot, but it is significant), that increase in pitch would cause the BlackHawk to "roll" or "drift" to the right. The MMU comes to the rescue again and automatically adjusts the pitch of the main rotor blades and causes the rotor disk to have a left "tilt" to keep the aircraft from drifting right; that's the "Collective to Roll" function. Because the rotor disk is now slightly tilted to the left, the centrifugal force pulling down on the left side of the rotor system causes the BlackHawk to hang left wheel low. The other comment about the transmission being slightly off-center is also incorrect... :-)
Brian Lucas nice explanation Brian. I got a little bit lazy and tried to give a dumbed down explanation but you explained it all perfectly. So which are you IP or MTP?
Brian Lucas wow thanks! great bird, I'd love to be a mechanic on these heli's but the country I live in doesn't have them unfortunatly.. but it's very interesting to read about technical and aerodynamic things about the Black Hawk
MMU compensation for translating tendancy of the tail rotor. The tail rotor will push the aircraft to the right so the left tilt counteracts the would be right sliding motion.
Years ago while in college, one of my classmates, who was in the ANG, arranged for a "visit" by the Chinook he was assigned to. When they were preparing to leave, the pilot pulled into a hover about 5 feet off the ground and then yanked up on the collective, made the blackhawk in this video look slow and cumbersome. He was up to several hundred feet AGL within seconds.
I too think jonjonlambo is insane...these Army guys were obviously at a show and had he had catastrophic failure he'd have slammed in to grass and probably killed no one and the blades would have slammed downward. A high performance take-off is something you do to get your PPL so his machine is faster and more powerful as it was designed to be. GREAT VIDEO STUTZADA and THANK YOU for not putting a stupid music soundtrack over those turbines!! Awesome vid!
good ol flying combat minivan. crew of 4 and seating for 11 of your best friends. dont ask for cupholders though, only the crewchiefs (thats me) are cool enough to get those
+Melvin Abner Both of y'all are wrong, Military trains their men to be able to control those things in combat situations. He had it well under control.
To the guy who said "it's pretty quiet" You were obviously overwhelmed and stunned by the sheer amount of power and noise a black hawk emits. Just admit it's amazing and you've never seen that before. It's ok
At least Seven minutes until the bird warmed up and is ready to go, every time you saw in a movie a hero or a villain jumping onto a helo and lifting off instantly was pure cinema bullsh!t
I can hear a helicopter miles away before seeing it and I can tell you if it’s a blackhawk. Work and flew on that beautiful machine for years in army. #uh60
when I was in civil air patrol at an air show, me and other cadets had to hold down the other aircraft while a black hawk and a huey landed so they wouldn't blow away. lots of dust.
Well, let's not let any moss grow under our reverse tricyclic landing gear, with that takeoff. Those pilots have a little bit of showmanship in them, I'd say. Would we be doing a plug for the power of the GE T700 series? And that circle around and flyover was just downright nice. I think I squealed a bit, in my head of course. So nobody could hear, look at me, and notice the quiver all over too.
why is it everyone is so eager to get out, go home. But you go home after a year or two you want to re-enlist. You don't realize how nice it is to be on a team. The only difference between people is rank and the team you are on. That comradery is something hard to come by in civilian life. When you meet a vet on the street it's an immediate ok he one of us. It's like they are family, it's hard to describe. Civilians and military personnel they are different people. Maybe it's because you know they have your back if something goes down!
You're quite right. Plus, those pilots know what they're doing. I'm sure they could do some even crazier stuff. What we saw is probably their 'safe' flying :P
This is a really neat video. I've got a couple clips on my youtube wall of a Bell-430 comverted medi-vac for the University of Michigan Medical Center. I've been up close and personal with the U of M medi-vacs for some time now. All I can say when I see your video here is WOW! That helicopter is huge and incredibly fast. It makes the Bell-430 look like a model helicopter.
NEC for Navy too...Agreed I love the 60 airframe, hated it while I worked on them but after doing civilian commercial jets I have a renewed love for my old helos...
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climbed around those damn things for 15 years. in ~1800 hours and 1530 combat hours this thing got me home every single time. had a few wild rides but never let me down
That was the fastest vertical lift off I've seen so far. When the pilot decided to go, it seemed like it just jumped straight up
I swear, the Blackhawk has got to be one of the most beautiful helicopters ever made.
But in my own view, its number 1 ❤️
As a 67T in the late 90's I so thoroughly enjoyed our Lima models. Great flying and rugged as hell. 10/14's keep em flying all day. Fly Army
I was a 68B 96-04.
I am a big Huey fan, flew in them and jumped from them. However, there is no comparison when you see this beast !! Fantastic.
If this thing is like a Bravo model Seahawk then its very loud and uncomfortable. Cranials hurt after a while lol and rubbing your ears for relief is loud af if you dont have foamies in...I have flown in Sierra models of Seahawk and they are alot more tolerable. 47 and 53 werent bad to fly in I didnt think...
I was watching him just prior to take off to see him pull up on he collective, was not expecting him to try to rip it out of the cockpit entirely😂
From an old Blackhawk Crew Chief this video was a trip down memory lane. Well done my friend, well done...
Helicopter Doctor I love the Sikorsky UH 60 Blackhawk so very much and I adore her so very much, the noise of the engine is simply amazing, awesome, fascinating, adorable and so majestic to listen, the whole helicopter is so sususususupercool and astonishing to see, I say it again and again and again I love this helicopter! Lovely greetings from Sarah and have a wonderful, happy and peaceful day and stay safe out there and take care of you 🇺🇸💖👍🇺🇸💖👍🇺🇸💖👍🇺🇸💖👍🇺🇸💖👍
Yoooooo
That bird went up so quick.
Still shocked.
Had to re-watch to be sure it wasn't edited.
I know, I had to watch a few times... Awesome !
True
He went hard on the collective
If the helicopter is very prepared, it can do
I was skipping 5 sec at a time and suddenly it was cleanly in the air .... also did a double take
Wow
Never seen a takeoff like that before.
That’s some powerful motor.
Motors... Twin turbines. 😁🇺🇸
Start on 2:00
Rear blade RPM equal to camera frame rate 3:05 & 4:13
Quick Take-off 5:34
Yeees
👎👎👎👎👎
This Chopper has so much Power... It Just leaped straight up into the sky... Awesome machine
Fantastic video
Those slick Lima models are so light. So much power
How can u not love em!
How my guys preferred to fly Med, slick with only 3 seats in the cabin two for the crew cheifs and the Medic's back left right up against the LH cabin door. Gave you the most of the cabin floor for patients and the Medics would have the aft bulkhead to hang basically a dresser full of all of their kit with backboards hung on the ceiling, quick and easy load and unloading with full access to all sides of the patients unlike with the internally mounted center carousel or other system which pulled out the two crew chief seats was way harder to load not mention the weight from those systems. Really the only additional weight and cabin space we'd be willing to sacrifice is if we'd need to mount Robbie tanks in which case the Medics seat move up in between the two crew chiefs.
I was around these birds for eight years and not a day goes by that I miss that sound of those GE701's especially when they make that cool Blackhawk noise as the No. 1 engine starts up and the M/R blades start turning...…. And man do I miss flying with them doing NOE flights, skimming lakes, and scaring convoys/ patrols off the roads because we were so low that the only thing above the tree tops was the M&T/Rs . And also just putting it out there, people think Med pilots are simple bus drivers like them A-bat boys? Oh no, I swear some of my pilots weren't right in the head but man could they fly and stay inside that "Golden hour".
-C 2-211th Medevac
Though one nice thing is my house is right by my local airport and as such I still get to hear and see them when they're flying approaches or just bombing around the area.
Geez,thats the fastest ive ever seen one leave the ground
It was the coffee
Wow he did get that bird off the ground quickly, I've never seen one do that either, wow😊❤👍
If you look closely you can see the blades do a steep collective pitch just before the helicopter rips free from the ground.
**helicopter flying peacefully**
Building: Hey
Heli: Oh hey........WHAT THE FUC-----
**to be continued**
Oh man do I miss that engine start up noise. Best job I ever had.
That's the crew chief and it's a long cable to plug his helmet into. He's watching each engine as they start it to ensure that there are no fires/leaks/etc among other things.
High power takeoff, awesome, nice video!
5:35 looks like a kickstart :))
One of the best looking helicopters
That was a typical max performance takeoff, something we practice on just about every flight. Nothing wrong with it...
Your name looks familiar.
You know when a man is in tune with his machine. Had the right amount of rudder in and went straigh up
I love watching the helicopter fly over
Nice Clear Video. I was a Black Hawk crew chief and TI back in the late 80's early 90,s. I loved that bird! A comment below was asking about the UH-60 tendency to tilt left on lift off. The reason is the main transmission module is placed just to the left of center of gravity for the air frame. Thus it is slightly lighter on the right side and it lifts off first
Actually boss, it hangs left wheel low due to translating tendency which is caused by the tail rotor.
SuperBlackhawkdriver Not to be a douche, but Paul Humphrey is probably right. Translation tenancy does exist in rotary wing flight, however it causes more of a lateral "drift" than a "roll". The tail rotor isn't angled nearly enough to cause that much roll. Also, the tail rotor deflects air to the left side of the aircraft to counteract the clockwise yawing tenancy of the fuselage. So even if the tail rotor could cause significant rolling/banking movement, it would cause a right hand roll instead of the left hand roll you see here. Translating tendency is defined by the textbooks as: "The tendency for a single rotor helicopter to drift laterally, due to tail rotor thrust." Note that it doesn't say "roll" to the left. Just a friendly correction :)
Andre Morgan Let me correct a friendly correction that is incorrect... By the looks of your profile, you work with CH-47s, which do not have to worry about translating tendency due to their counter-rotating rotor system. UH-60s, on the other hand, do have to compensate for translating tendency. Luckily for us pilots, the BlackHawk's flight control system gives us a little help, through the Mechanical Mixing Unit (MMU), so that we don't have to work as hard up in the cockpit. "Collective to Roll" and "Collective to Yaw" compensation are a couple of the MMU functions. As we increase the collective, those GE-701 engines start creating a whole lot of torque to keep our main rotor at 100%. Normally, to compensate for that torque, a pilot would add some left pedal to keep the aircraft from spinning in the opposite direction of the rotor system, which in the case of a BlackHawk would be to the right (since our blades rotate counter-clockwise). The MMU automatically increases the pitch in the tail rotor blades (left pedal) to counter-act the increase in torque; that is the "Collective to Yaw" function. Now, since the UH-60 has a pretty beefy, puller type tail rotor (it actually contributes 2.5% of our total lift due to the 20 degree cant... which might not sound like a lot, but it is significant), that increase in pitch would cause the BlackHawk to "roll" or "drift" to the right. The MMU comes to the rescue again and automatically adjusts the pitch of the main rotor blades and causes the rotor disk to have a left "tilt" to keep the aircraft from drifting right; that's the "Collective to Roll" function. Because the rotor disk is now slightly tilted to the left, the centrifugal force pulling down on the left side of the rotor system causes the BlackHawk to hang left wheel low. The other comment about the transmission being slightly off-center is also incorrect... :-)
Brian Lucas nice explanation Brian. I got a little bit lazy and tried to give a dumbed down explanation but you explained it all perfectly. So which are you IP or MTP?
Brian Lucas wow thanks! great bird, I'd love to be a mechanic on these heli's but the country I live in doesn't have them unfortunatly.. but it's very interesting to read about technical and aerodynamic things about the Black Hawk
The 60 series Blackhawk and sea hawk have a wonderful vertical climb rate smooth quick and fun to fly.
MMU compensation for translating tendancy of the tail rotor. The tail rotor will push the aircraft to the right so the left tilt counteracts the would be right sliding motion.
Thanks so much
Watching this video is so satisfying.
Unbelievable engineering shocks my Mind
Even after all these yrs I can still call the droops.
How many other helicopter pilots thought "oh shit" when he yanked that collective?
jake holland lol yeah he took off like a bat out of hell.wasn't expecting that.
Overtorque in 3...2...1... lol
Not even a pilot and even I said "Oh shit!"
Normal operating procedure not even close to an over torque or damage to the aircraft
Years ago while in college, one of my classmates, who was in the ANG, arranged for a "visit" by the Chinook he was assigned to. When they were preparing to leave, the pilot pulled into a hover about 5 feet off the ground and then yanked up on the collective, made the blackhawk in this video look slow and cumbersome. He was up to several hundred feet AGL within seconds.
Pretty impressive launch.
Love the Black Hawk, love the video, love the action
ngai den..
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The pic quality in this video is nice
One of the best helicopter video's I've seen on here. Fantastic! Thank you for sharing this one.
Prescott campus class of ‘82. Every now and again the guard would bring some cool helos to campus.
Thats what you call a COMBAT TAKEOFF badass
Brilliant in 1080p at 60FPS! Good handling with the cam too. Job's a good un
I too think jonjonlambo is insane...these Army guys were obviously at a show and had he had catastrophic failure he'd have slammed in to grass and probably killed no one and the blades would have slammed downward. A high performance take-off is something you do to get your PPL so his machine is faster and more powerful as it was designed to be. GREAT VIDEO STUTZADA and THANK YOU for not putting a stupid music soundtrack over those turbines!! Awesome vid!
Excellent film footage and sound.
very hevi and strong helicopter.
Very good
The first time I saw a helicopter take off this way, he's a professional pilot
Hes noob, me pro
First time I see a helicopter take off with such speed..
Hello everybody , Really beautiful , I see that the tail rotor on the other side of main rotor rotation
good ol flying combat minivan. crew of 4 and seating for 11 of your best friends. dont ask for cupholders though, only the crewchiefs (thats me) are cool enough to get those
The pilots put on a show with their Black Hawk helicopter and it seem to be fantastic in completing it's mission.
Take off was so quick and powerful
This was recorded in 2011, 10 years ago.
It's looks like it was recorded tomorrow.
Easy on the collective, there, Superman
+Melvin Abner Both of y'all are wrong, Military trains their men to be able to control those things in combat situations. He had it well under control.
good
nice
Yeah because the military never have accidents right?
Thunderpants121
Nono
Superb opportunity for Dynamic Rollover. All it takes is for one main to be stuck. They yanked it off without a control check. lucky!!!
Shut up.....
Its gotta be a seriously badass engine to be able to lift it's own 5 tonne weight (empty), and then the max takeoff weight of 10.5 tonnes man...
Sir, I'm Indian . I'm proud of ur state
To the guy who said "it's pretty quiet" You were obviously overwhelmed and stunned by the sheer amount of power and noise a black hawk emits. Just admit it's amazing and you've never seen that before. It's ok
Most Beautiful helicopter
At least Seven minutes until the bird warmed up and is ready to go, every time you saw in a movie a hero or a villain jumping onto a helo and lifting off instantly was pure cinema bullsh!t
Yeah cause you want the guy to sit there and wait 7 mins to warm it up while he’s getting shot at.
No doubt ,this bird is a beast 💪😊 love from 🇮🇳
Krish Gopal love from North Korea 🇰🇵
4:30 you can hear the APU shut down
Yea pretty much.
It would have been nice to watch the process from the beginning in the cockpit. I have. It's awesome! Way different than in a UH-1 Huey.
OK , now you're showing off, buddy!lol
The good thing is the rotor wash will soon be loud enough to drown out all the armchair experts standing around
Plane Captain here. Seahawks...11 years
@@timsgta you served?
@@jtrx753 11 years
A little less than 11 actually, over the years I just decided to round up lol
Full rpm It will sit till the clutch comes in
Thanks to the other video I know how to preflight one of these bad boys
Now that was a man's take off!
Professional pilot 👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍
80-24602 looks like an A model! Love Hawks my unit had 12 of em :)
Quick take off. Black hawk is a powerful air bird
Wow, it went up very fast.
That's what she said. :)
bitethedevil
Who is "she"?
your mother
Robert Schubert
?
well, that escalated quickly
The work van of the sky.
I Saw this helicopter in Afghanistan. Very Good machine.
It's the comm wire. He's doing a visual preflight prior to the actual spool up and take off without going off coms.
Damn APU makes more noise than the entire power train!
I can hear a helicopter miles away before seeing it and I can tell you if it’s a blackhawk. Work and flew on that beautiful machine for years in army. #uh60
El mejor invento del hobre en toda la vida de la humanidad bellos
And this is how you give your instructor a heart attack. 😂😂
Muy bueno el Blackhwak, en Colombia hay 24 "Arpía". Artillados very good.
4:15 starts the sound of helicopter,
when I was in civil air patrol at an air show, me and other cadets had to hold down the other aircraft while a black hawk and a huey landed so they wouldn't blow away. lots of dust.
This Blackhawks looks pretty awesome than Mil mi17s....but good thing about milmis are they are able to carry 24 men inside
I love this halicopter perfect degine so beautyful
Spellings are wrong
@@shailendrakumarshukla7712 english isnt his/her language
Dang. Now THAT'S lift! 👀
Thumbs up for the cameraman to track this thing in the sky
Top turn is insane
Prescott. The surrounding mountains may give it away, heh
They may look big but they're actually smaller than you'd think in person
Damn! He yanked on that collective
The blackhawks sounds so mean. I love the angry growl.
Well, let's not let any moss grow under our reverse tricyclic landing gear, with that takeoff. Those pilots have a little bit of showmanship in them, I'd say. Would we be doing a plug for the power of the GE T700 series? And that circle around and flyover was just downright nice. I think I squealed a bit, in my head of course. So nobody could hear, look at me, and notice the quiver all over too.
This is one very sexy bird, always been my fave :)
i loved riding in those downrange, kinda makes me miss a-stan....KINDA
why is it everyone is so eager to get out, go home. But you go home after a year or two you want to re-enlist. You don't realize how nice it is to be on a team. The only difference between people is rank and the team you are on. That comradery is something hard to come by in civilian life. When you meet a vet on the street it's an immediate ok he one of us. It's like they are family, it's hard to describe. Civilians and military personnel they are different people. Maybe it's because you know they have your back if something goes down!
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Prescott. I'm pretty sure that the Arizona State Flag on the helicopter's vertical stabilizer is a good hint.
Must have been at the Prescott campus. The hills are smaller in Daytona.
The biggest hill in Daytona is the bridge to the beach.
Kraals the Daytona one was so cool I went on a tour there
You're right! and you can also check the state flag of Arizona on the tail of black hawk. Probably from national guard.
Hills in Daytona Fl lmao...good one haha
You're quite right. Plus, those pilots know what they're doing. I'm sure they could do some even crazier stuff. What we saw is probably their 'safe' flying :P
In Jesus name. Amen.
I like your footage! Which camera do you use?
Potato
This is a really neat video. I've got a couple clips on my youtube wall of a Bell-430 comverted medi-vac for the University of Michigan Medical Center. I've been up close and personal with the U of M medi-vacs for some time now. All I can say when I see your video here is WOW! That helicopter is huge and incredibly fast. It makes the Bell-430 look like a model helicopter.
Thanks. Its how I prefer to watch these videos online so I figure most other people do too.
Best mos in the army
NEC for Navy too...Agreed I love the 60 airframe, hated it while I worked on them but after doing civilian commercial jets I have a renewed love for my old helos...