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Posted: 9/25/2024 3:44:00 PM EDT
[Last Edit: MHS69]
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1st Helo flight was in a HH 43 Husky (call sign Pedro) at Williams AFB sometimes in the early 70's. I was an Air Traffic Controller and my buddy was the mechanic for it and he got me a ride when it was on a training flight. It was a cool ride along but it's a pretty weird aircraft.
Pic taken off the internet.  Attached File2nd was a Kawasaki BK 117 C-1, we took a tour from Milford Sound to Queenstown N.Z. with a landing on Korako Glacier it was very cool.  Attached File |
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OH, USA
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Posted: 9/25/2024 4:03:49 PM EDT
[#2]
Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By Strike6: @OneRanger Civilian or Military? Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By Strike6: Originally Posted By OneRanger: I'm a 500 driver, so 500 all day for me. @OneRanger Civilian or Military? Civilian |
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Posted: 9/25/2024 4:07:55 PM EDT
[#3]
The only one I recall flying in was a 206.
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Posted: 9/25/2024 4:09:58 PM EDT
[#4]
PAVE LOW for the MFW. Always one way trips though
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Posted: 9/25/2024 4:15:02 PM EDT
[#5]
I used to love being the Door Gunner on Blackhawks.
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Posted: 9/25/2024 4:23:13 PM EDT
[#6]
Bell 47. I absolutely loved it.
The other rides have been in the news chopper type, whatever they are. Here's the last one I rode in, that you can see just over the back of my Escape.  I liked all of the rides, but the old Bell 47 was the best. 
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Posted: 9/25/2024 4:23:26 PM EDT
[Last Edit: pukindog]
[#7]
The only one (as an adult) I have flown in was a Hughes TH-55 which was set up as a stunt helicopter.
I went to an airshow on the media day after getting an invite through work and had a short flight. And that pilot did some interesting stunts I was not aware at the time small helicopters could even do. My parents have told me I rode in a Huey when I was very young and my dad was in the National Guard, but I have absolutely no memories of that. ETA: the TH-55 flight was nearly 30 years ago and was in this helicopter :  Otto the Air Show Helicopter Clown |
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Posted: 9/25/2024 4:24:36 PM EDT
[#8]
Been in, A/MH-6
Flown in? My job was threatened for asking if I could go fly in a little bird 
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Posted: 9/25/2024 4:26:04 PM EDT
[#9]
Chinook is the correct answer.
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Posted: 9/25/2024 4:28:07 PM EDT
[Last Edit: H1Mech]
[#10]
I was an H-1 mech/crew in the Marines and worked on the following;
AH-1W SuperCobra UH-1Y Huey AH-1Z Viper Front seating in the AH-1W will forever be my all-time favorite aviation flight. I flew in the UH-1Y countless times and it was usually fun, especially when ordnance was loaded. I worked on the AH-1Z but never got a chance to fly in it. It’s a nasty, lethal helicopter that flies much faster and carries way more ordnance, but it doesn’t have the 2 blade “womp womp” effect or nostalgia of the legacy whiskey. I got to fly in a V-22 Osprey once and it was actually really cool. They take a lot of shit but they are neat aircraft. I flew in the CH-53E a few times and I hate those things with a passion. They are enormous, powerful helicopters. But I hate em. Everything is covered in black soot and hydraulic fluid. They are also obnoxiously loud. ETA: Currently working for a commercial airline as an A&P. The pay is excellent but it’s a rather boring job. Eventually I’d like to get in with a medevac or forestry service and go back to working on helicopters. Nothing beats rotorcraft. |
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Posted: 9/25/2024 4:35:42 PM EDT
[#11]
Experience...
-- CH-47 -- UH-1 -- UH-60 Favorite... -- UH-60  |
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Posted: 9/25/2024 4:39:49 PM EDT
[#12]
I’ve never been in a helo.
 Any arfcommers able to hook me up with a helo ride?? |
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Posted: 9/25/2024 4:43:57 PM EDT
[#13]
Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By Tobysi: I've never been in a helo. Any arfcommers able to hook me up with a helo ride?? Be All You Can Be. |
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Posted: 9/25/2024 4:47:39 PM EDT
[#14]
Been in UH-60. Ridden in HU-1.
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Posted: 9/25/2024 4:48:26 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryI clicked the link and the first picture is a spoon? WTF. Not even a a smiling face just the backside… |
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VA, USA
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Posted: 9/25/2024 5:08:45 PM EDT
[Last Edit: USMC2671]
[#16]
Got a low level open door flight at Ft Ord once on a Huey, lot of fun for my first time in a helo. Got one landing in a UH-60. But lots of time in CH-53s with probably half as many landings as takeoffs. Lots more memories and fun. Wet SPIE, fast roping, rappelling and static line jumps; later flying around Iraq in 2003.
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Posted: 9/25/2024 5:16:24 PM EDT
[#17]
Shitter.
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ME, USA
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Posted: 9/25/2024 5:18:55 PM EDT
[Last Edit: RichHead]
[#18]
The only helo I’ve ever been in.
 ETA: wrong model, it was a UH-1N not a Y. 
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Posted: 9/25/2024 5:23:56 PM EDT
[#19]
Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By RichHead: The only helo I’ve ever been in. https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8a/UH-1Y_Venom_Okinawa_%28cropped%29.jpg/1024px-UH-1Y_Venom_Okinawa_%28cropped%29.jpg @RichHead 6174? |
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USA
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Posted: 9/25/2024 5:28:33 PM EDT
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PA, USA
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Posted: 9/25/2024 5:29:54 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By txinvestigator: Isn't the 500 Hughes/MD? Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By txinvestigator: Originally Posted By Pinpoint6: Only been in a few. Bell 500 is my favorite. Like flying a go cart. Isn't the 500 Hughes/MD? Brain cramp, your right MD |
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ME, USA
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Posted: 9/25/2024 5:32:34 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By H1Mech: @RichHead 6174? Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By H1Mech: Originally Posted By RichHead: The only helo I’ve ever been in. https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8a/UH-1Y_Venom_Okinawa_%28cropped%29.jpg/1024px-UH-1Y_Venom_Okinawa_%28cropped%29.jpg @RichHead 6174? I was a pogue in the Army. Our M1114 was destroyed by an IED and the Marine QRF was nice enough to offer our crew a free ride back to Al Asad. The Marines were always awesome and treated us well every chance they got. |
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FL, USA
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Posted: 9/25/2024 5:33:38 PM EDT
[Last Edit: Twitchy]
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This is my favorite, but love 60s, 47s, and 53s. I've had plenty of rides in all of them, but am partial to the Killer Egg for obvious reasons. 60s will always have a place in my heart - 2 Dust Off rides.
 53s because they were my first rides. 47s because they're just badass sky pick up trucks. |
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Posted: 9/25/2024 5:39:56 PM EDT
[#24]
Sea King is by far the smoothest I've flown in. I'd call it my favorite.
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Posted: 9/25/2024 5:41:29 PM EDT
[#25]
Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By Paul: I got to ride in Huey for a few hours out at Fort Irwin's dust bowl.  I got to ride in those a few times my own self....
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Posted: 9/25/2024 5:51:14 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By scopedope: Ramp Blasts (parachute jump) from a CH47 Yup, but I did like flying around in Panama in a uh1 when I was there for jotc back in the early 90s. Flying above the tree line was super cool even though I got stuck in the hell hole. |
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Posted: 9/25/2024 5:55:04 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By Appalachia: HH-60G. Mini-guns > .50 cal. https://www.ar15.com/media/mediaFiles/265065/20140917_140522_jpg-3332191.JPG https://www.ar15.com/media/mediaFiles/265065/1000001059_jpg-3332192.JPG |
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Posted: 9/25/2024 5:57:45 PM EDT
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Does liking the H-53 make you the midcap of helicopter fans?
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Posted: 9/25/2024 6:07:11 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By Curmudgeon762: I clicked the link and the first picture is a spoon? WTF. Not even a a smiling face just the backside Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By Curmudgeon762: I clicked the link and the first picture is a spoon? WTF. Not even a a smiling face just the backside I do my best to never have regrets in life, but if I had a do over, it'd choose that MOS. |
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Posted: 9/25/2024 6:12:22 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By Chris_1522: The only helicopter I've ever been it was a Robinson during a Hawaiian vacation, with the doors off. We didn't die and it was an amazing experience. I've love to do it again. If you get thru Huntsville hit me up. I'll hook you up with a ride. I know a guy.... |
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Posted: 9/25/2024 6:12:50 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By Razzman1: I was a crew chief on MH-53Js in the AF when I was a kid. I was young and stupid and didn't really understand how cool all the stuff I was working on was. I got to fly on them a couple of times, including a night mountain / valley flight under goggles sitting on the ramp, which my stomach wasn't prepared for. But it was all very cool. Fast forward half a lifetime and I fly Bell 206s and 505s. A stripped down OH-58 is probably my favorite aircraft to fly, however. I’ve got a couple thousand hours in MH-53J/M’s. It’s entirely possible I broke one or more of your birds. |
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Posted: 9/25/2024 6:16:37 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By Curmudgeon762: PAVE LOW for the MFW. Always one way trips though Pave Low Leads! You should have paid for the round trip. We would have came back to pick you up. |
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Posted: 9/25/2024 6:19:25 PM EDT
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As Civilian passenger- Bell 47, Bell 206
As Military cargo - UH1, CH46, CH47, CH53, UH60 Favorite CH53. F-ing love everything about them. |
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Posted: 9/25/2024 6:19:40 PM EDT
[Last Edit: migradog]
[#34]
Had an alien smuggler fake a stroke.
She failed the drop test and reacted to a sternal rub, but a distended neck vein freaked out the responding paramedic. He called in Life Flight to transport her to Sharp Hospital. She was in my custody, so I got to fly from Tecate to Kearny Mesa. All in all, a good day at work. 
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Posted: 9/25/2024 6:20:26 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By Hesperus: My favorite helicopter is the CH-53 series. But my favorite that I've actually been in was one of these at an air show. https://www.ar15.com/media/mediaFiles/383325/UH-72_jpg-3332219.JPG I got to sit in it with a retired pilot from the Vietnam era who I swear to God looked like Richard Attenborough in Jurassic Park but with a different cane. He had some really cool stories. The predecessor to that bird is sitting in the hangar I'm posting from....  It's a fucking hot rod. |
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Posted: 9/25/2024 6:26:41 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By d4xycrq: Very specific: N145TJ https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/54021504818_da23bf326b_z.jpg https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/54021504833_b41b3d74db_k.jpg https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/54021716750_b1853ef2b9_k.jpg Sure, the helo was stunning. But more stunning was the ER nurse that recognised a very rare condition, the pilot, and the surgeon. Little guy was on death's door on Monday, and running around like before on Thursday. Dude...that's fucking awesome !!!!! It's why my Brother keeps flying for his company. He truly enjoys it. He loves hearing of great outcomes !!!!!!!! |
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Posted: 9/25/2024 6:29:18 PM EDT
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Sikorsky S58T
 Sikorsky S61V. Once upon a time she was in the presidential fleet. 
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Posted: 9/25/2024 6:30:12 PM EDT
[#38]
The BO-105 is pretty cool. I got to fly this one briefly.
 Attached FileI flew the Huey in flight school and at the High Altitude unit in Colorado. I got to take my Dad for a flight which was totally awesome.  Attached File |
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Posted: 9/25/2024 6:31:10 PM EDT
[#39]
In or on the skids?
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Posted: 9/25/2024 6:31:31 PM EDT
[#40]
On one IFR flight we did in a UH-1, we flew at 10k feet, in the clouds. You want to know terrifying, it's that. 0 visibility, max altitude allowed without oxygen, marginal cabin heat and a max airspeed of something like 80 knots because the air is so thin that retreating blade stall happens at a very low airspeed. When you start approaching max airspeed, the aircraft begins to shake...violently, as the retreating blade loses lift and the advancing blade gets all the load.
I've ridden on dozens and dozens of simulated engine failures all the way to the ground (auto rotations). I've flown dead bodies off the DMZ in South Korea. I've shot M-60's out of both Hueys and Blackhawks. I have an hour or two of stick time in a Huey (unrecorded, of course). I've flown 100 feet over the streetlights on the Key Bridge heading into DC, landed at the Pentagon, flown to "contingency sites" with full bird colonels stuffed in the gunner's well because they were the lowest ranking pax on my aircraft. Once in Korea, a UH60 lost one of its stowed door-guns (M60) off the side of the aircraft on a cross country flight and didn't notice until they landed. Turned into a multi-day field exercise to basically "FOD Walk" their flight path looking for it. It was never found. Good times...good times. |
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Posted: 9/25/2024 6:34:48 PM EDT
[#41]
That's a hard question because of memories.
Doors open Huey, cranking and banking below tree tops following a random river? Chasing moose in a Chinook in Alaska? Blackhawks over the Moroccan coastline? IDK. |
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Posted: 9/25/2024 6:34:50 PM EDT
[#42]
R22
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Posted: 9/25/2024 6:45:17 PM EDT
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Posted: 9/25/2024 6:46:16 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By madmathew: Chinook is the correct answer. |
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Posted: 9/25/2024 7:05:22 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By AbleArcher: Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By AbleArcher: Originally Posted By madmathew: Chinook is the correct answer.  |
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Posted: 9/26/2024 12:20:08 AM EDT
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Only time I've been to sea was in a Blackhawk.
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Posted: 9/26/2024 12:59:29 AM EDT
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Had my very own UH-1E. Pilots fresh out of VN were the shit. We had a blast.
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MI, USA
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Posted: 9/26/2024 2:51:52 AM EDT
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There isn't one. "Airplanes want to fly. Helicopters want to crash." - Dan Owens
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WA, USA
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Posted: 9/26/2024 3:29:05 AM EDT
[#49]
CH-53, actually comfortable to ride in. I always got a seat.
With the 60's if you were the 4-6ish guy on, you got stuck laying on the floor. F all that. |
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Posted: 9/26/2024 5:02:32 AM EDT
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AH-1 for the nostalgic bad assedness and history
The Apache for the modern version with more firepower, more engine power but minus the history |
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