Lmao I liked that bit too "Yeah she's fucked, how much for the tow? WHAT!? bugger that I'll get 'em to fix it themselves! Gary, go grab a spanner!"

Sir, this is Rajesh, did you do a complete restart? Please shut down and restart.

back in the day, the crew knew how to work on the equipment, sadly Corporatism done away with that

@@MatthewHensley8304 I mean "back in the day" it was a few analog gauges and hydraulics and linkages. No computer telling that hydraulic pump exactly how much to pressurize to and which valves to open for all sort of reasons.

I work in IT. I cannot tell you how much I laughed at this.

Reminded me of a helo providing overwatch to observe if the enemy was nearby.

Crikey!

That's why nearly all military operations have at least two members. So one can report on another's behaviour. I doubt they stayed for longer than 30 minutes, and then they returned to base once sufficient information (status, location, etc.) was relayed to the ATC.

That was probably the talk of the town for six months.

I’ve read this quote in the voice of Sir David Attenborough in one of his documentaries 😅

"I see you're using an allen wrench there. Yeah, that should work."

Bad but then got good. I'm not a pilot but I know how important the tail rotor is. I was stationed in Vietnam from 68-69 and one day I was walking to the mess hall and a Huey flew overhead and I noticed the tail rotor came off. It then tried to land in an adjoining field but crashed and exploded. I ran to the tall fence nearby and climbed up but the concertina wire stopped me. I hung on and watched a couple of Army guys come out of their radio shack right next to it, trying to get the crew out of the fire. They got them out but a few didn't make it. My barracks was directly across the street from Hotel 3, the large helipad where almost every type of helo landed and launched. Glad you were able to do what you did. Cheers, Bob Powell, CMSgt, USAF(Ret)

​@@rvnmedic1968 that's why they say a landing you can walk away from is a good landing

Class

😂😂True that

I'm glad I'm not the only one who thought that

Papa UH60 came to help

@@danielroher3605that and paired with the music haha

They were probably laughing

wow nice

Landing in the back yard is every boy's dream! As a FF in my city we got a call from our dispatch of a military helicopter making an emergency landing next to one of our highways. We got there in time to see it land. The crew told us they had gotten a "check engine light" that meant "set it down now, where ever you are-now" - that's what the pilot told us, lol. We stood by until a unmarked van and pickup arrived to repair the problem and they took off a couple of hours later. The crew were very cool, we all set around and joked about what people may have thought. Had a few people pull up and ask. I enjoyed the time with the crew, they were from different parts of the country and were only in town for a few days. They were having an upgrade done to their helicopter and they had some kind of meeting or class to attend as well. Our town has The Redstone Arsenal as well as several military helicopter contractor businesses. It was a black UH-60. I've never seen a black one. I've heard the stories of the conspiracies and the black military helicopters. The crew told us the paint shop was probably out of dark green and sand colors. We thought "Yeah, right." But we had a good laugh and a good time. Since then I have had another UH-60 helicopter landing due to "mechanical issues" with almost the same results. But the 2nd was the normal color, lol. I really respect these young guys and what they contribute and sacrifice.

@@Thunderbyrd. perhaps the specific type of UH60 you mentioned is operated by the 160th SOAR nightstalkers

@@Thunderbyrd. not in Iraq or Afghanistan

Sadly it wasnt my school.

I know people are just joking when they laugh at the weapons officer on the phone with the chopper support, making Microsoft reboot jokes. Honestly, I'd do the same: call the base and ask to talk to the mechanics. It's no different from calling your car dealer for support when something craps out on you and your vehicle is stuck in the middle of nowhere.

Chuck Yeager.

Hows this filmed in PA? Why is there a german flag mounted on the flag pole it should be american?

I saw that flag too 😂

@@1998gst4611 German ancestry? German immigrants?

this flag seems modified, it has some symbol in the centre , original flag does not

@@maciejguzek3442 for sure. Regardless, it’s not an American flag lol

C-130s come by my house all the time, and i don't live in America, but it's still cool to see them

@@ODST_Jar You live in Baghdad?

@@lrballistics wow 🙄

even for grown up like me, that still best thing i wish to happen for me ^_^

My parent lived in Hanoi and in 1972 they waved at the American. Needless to say The American greet them back with heavy ordnance lol. Glad they made it out alive

so they trespass on your property and then start giving you orders of what you cant do? If you land in my yard, ill walk up to you if I want to.

@@davidca96 its not their fault they had to land there in the first place. and its millitary equipment so its fair that they keep their distance from it

You aren't too smart are you?@@davidca96

@@chefdan87 you dont get when someones joking around much, do you?

If you think that was a joke then you really are as dumb as i thought you were. @@davidca96

Thanks. I didn't get a shot of the Blackhawk landing, but I wished I had - all the guys in the next shot got out. I did get it leaving though!

EXACTLY!!!!!!!!!! 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 😁

I was wondering why it landed in reverse. Very clever way to add a missing shot; it tricked my mind.

yah I thought that was an awfully fast decent rate and best touchdown timing ever recorded lol

Ala Benny Hill. 🤣

Great story!!!

Absolutely nothing.......I'll take them anywhere they want to go for as long as they want. My brothers get whatever they need.

Gas money is nice if it as bit far, but other than that...

I hope you wont get invaded soon

Get in the truck it is my pleasure you fought for our freedom I would be happy to take you

Wow that's awesome! Thanks for sharing :)

Thank you for your service.

Imagine breaking into some random ranch house to rob it and such when suddenly two military helicopters full of dudes land next to it....

Lucky bastard Haha Keep em' airborne dude!!!

Sir, this is probably The best goddam comment ever.

So much things cooler than an apache

@@lordemarsh6804 YOU TAKE THAT BACK

@@chillicothewarrior a nimitz class carrier is more cooler

@@chillicothewarrior an F-35 is more cooler

An A-10 Thunderbolt Warthog is cooler than all of those

Yeah at least overseas DART is the same except more guns.

@@ebolawarrior451 Lots of guns lol

@@GTRNights I read that in Harrison Ford's voice.

@@timstephenson6923 HAHA! Or do Morgan Freeman - "Rumor has it, he's still verifying his flyaway kit to this day"

Yep. Me too. Back in the 90’s. I recall one of my team members was called in with three others to repair a downed 64 in Georgia. He forgot to fasten his toolbox to the floor of the UH and when that bird tilted, adios toolbox. He wasn’t laughing, but the UH pilots got a nice giggle.

Lol in this context thats a good twist on an old meme (the version at home being even better for those wondering)

literally

@@Jeremiah71603 ok

good ending

The kid goes: “wait what?!”

What are you talking about?

@@petersyme7083 Movie reference... Field of Dreams. Worth watching!

@@petersyme7083 He really went back far for that reference. Chris, You are a dinosaure.

👍

Lol!

We did hover practice in cow pastures near Fort Rucker. The cows ignored the helicopters and kept grazing but the calves approached and watched curiously.

Those big, wide blades of the Huey gave them fantastic auto-rotate characteristics, didn't they? Hence why they could do the "Huey shuffle", where you spin the blades up on the ground, kill the engine, lift off, turn around, and land. And also why every helicopter in movies goes "WHUP-WHUP-WHUP".

Edisto is a great place, glad ya found a field. Nice lil R&R I'm sure! 👍🇺🇲

Love the AH-64!!

@@hoilst Hmmm…really? I flew Hueys for 30 years and never tried that. ASMOF, when one applies full pitch during an autorotation (I.e. engine out), the aircraft goes straight to the ground, albeit softly. Taking off with no engine, I dunno, man.

That's a 1930s Weimar flag flying in rural Pennsylvania. Either these guys are Pennsilfaanisch Deitsch speakers, or that flag's there to represent something... else.

@@skyscall dude IF you try to do german, atleast write our countrys name right! *Deutsch(land)*

@@mho... I was referring to Pennsilfaanisch-Deitsch, a local variety of German spoken in the United States and Canada which has origins from the Pfalz (or _Palz_ as speakers call it).

@@mho... Bevor man klugscheißt, sollte man auch sicherstellen, dass man klug ist und sich vorher intormieren. Ein hilfreicher Link: de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pennsylvania_Dutch_(Sprache)

Me, I would have been saying, "Finder's keepers, looser weepers" :)

@@trvman1 lol

I mean them kids could have turned wrenches too lol

Your great troops landing a helicopter in a garden with an East German flag... Seems suspicious at least...

@@peterm6861 not East German just normal German Flag

@@peterm6861 You can fly any damn flag you desire. Read the First Amendment of our Constitution before you comment.

@@davismontana9307 Relax :) And it's your constitution, not mine. I'm German lol

Sounds like you were just outside near Kernersville! Lots of good farmlands up that way. Glad y'all made it safely!

@@stephenwilkins3606 Thank you. I live in AZ now, but will always be grateful to the kind folks of NC.

@@iflyflir1846 Oh cool!! Me and my brother were out in Arizona back in April for the Final 4. Beautiful State, got to see quite a bit of it but not all of it. Thank you for your service!

@@stephenwilkins3606 Thanks Stephen! Next time you come to AZ, let me know. I'd be happy to show you some interesting things here.

@@iflyflir1846 for sure! Not sure when I’ll be back out on the West Coast but I’ll try and keep this youtube thread in my mind :)

I got the aviation bug as a child seeing B52s mainly. They were doing training missions over Dayton, Ohio, at the time. Very loud and I liked it. But I love choppers to and flew once in one in Hawaii.

The Rooivalk was a gossamaer of an age gone by. Plus parts and monies were hard to come by for it. Only 12 were built.

I lived on schofield barracks in Hawaii from 1975 to 1979. The 25 th infantry division was still bringing in new helicopters after leaving behind so many in vietnam. We would often see fifteen or twenty fly over at a time. Entire formations flying over the officers quarters on an almost hourly basis for weeks at a time.

Have you gotten the hell out of S. Africa yet?

My son in law just became a army helicopter pilot training in Alabama.👍

@@keithqueen3554 congrats to him!

@@keithqueen3554 What stage of flight school is he at right now?

@@bloodndestroy he's finished already.👍

We called them widow makers

The other nicknames for the F-104 were the 'Widow-maker' and the 'Flying Coffin'.

The lawn dart, lol.

Yep. The lawn dart is the name my Father, and I call them. There are quite a few for sale right now. Including several German F-104's

There was an album called Captain Lockheed and the Starfighters about the Starfighter give it a listen ...

Yeah, A-10s have that effect too. They are ABSOLUTELY silent from the front when they fly low -- when you "hear" them they are already past you. Makes you pucker and be glad they are on OUR side.

ZSU4-23 is why that tactic doesn't work and everyone switched to long range missiles. The Soviets were concerned about these so they fielded ZSU4 23s in large numbers.

@@SilverStarHeggisist as soon as they light up their radar they are targets. If you see an A-10 you can bet there is a Wild Weasel somewhere nearby.

@@redwolfexr happened with a C17 the other day to my mom and I. They like to fly low over our lake to train and a few weeks ago one flew straight at us. We didn’t hear it until we got engulfed in the shadow lol

They have an even smaller helicopter with a big ball over its rotors with cameras, sensors and radar that can tuck itself in behind some trees with only those sensors visible over the tops of the trees, so it can see an entire battlefield while staying hidden.

Privilege has its rewards.

I would be billing the govt for the land rental. 🤣

I have a cousin who flys either a blackhawk or huey I forgot exactly which, but I was able to go to one of the bases he was stationed at and had a close up look of it as it was having maintenance done along with like 20 others

Coffee's on, muffins just out of the oven! ( During a recent nearby fire, those S-70C Firehawks' sounds dwarf the smaller medical helicopters from the nearby hospital.)

As a bootlicker should

Okay, I said "Blackhawk" more than once in my original post. That was moronic! I meant "APACHE"! It must have been late when I posted that...

Inspired them to kill? These are killing machines and have only purpose...wreaking death and destruction on other human beings.

Imagine being lucky enough to have a house & backyard!

If they where REALLY lucky they had a good lawyer looking for old Pennsylvania laws from 1777 like: "Seeds, apples and other goods that land in the garden on the owned property belong to the property owners the moment it touches the land". I am sure there is such a law and this family was just too slow to contact some sly lawyer, that Apache could have become their new family car to fly over to Walmart every Saturday evening with all that awesome night vision equipment... :D

or unlucky enough depending where you are in the world

And the Blackhawk no doubt.

The one on the ground could still communicate with HQ

@@freethinker5039 Not once they shut down power- which they had to do as part of emergency procedures. Then the crew is down to their evasion radios to communicate. Second; lower altitude would block the LOS traffic; while the helicopter in the air could still relay.

A lot

@@freethinker5039 Not if the problem it with it is the APU. No radios then.

Thanking your god for a murder complex. Seems about right.

your God must be Satan because last time I check “For that cause We decreed for the Children of Israel that whosoever killeth a human being for other than manslaughter or corruption in the earth, it shall be as if he had killed all mankind” Apache is a killing machine

@@Blackowl44 lol, the god of the Bible is the biggest mass murderer in all of fiction

those men and women don't fight for you, they fight for Corporate America and its Corporate interest... so why would you thank god for that? I bet youll be resending that thanks to god when a hurricane hits in your area and those military people fly in and take all of your stuff from you just like they did in New Orleans after Katrina. you all best open your eyes and stop letting illusions rule you.

(Lol). 🙏Amen, and God Bless America.

Agreed. And our govt should never squander their service and loyalty unless absolutely necessary.

The military works under the jurisdiction of the government, in all functional democracies and also in many totalitarian countries. It's the politicians of the government who tell the military what to do. The military's job is to figure out how to do it. Every year the government also needs to decide the budget for the armed forces. The military is like a giant government agency, essentially. The vast majority of countries also have a minister of defense (or equivalent, depending on how the offices of the executive branch are called). That person is basically doing nothing else but trying to look after the needs of the military in the government. It's impossible to forget it.

I was just about going to say the same! WHATEVER YOU GUYS NEED, YA GOT IT!

Ahaaaaa...

For real 👌

Exactly!

Just a second let me grab my vice grips any one need a beer

Not literally yet but they use AI and algorithms

I'm thinking they do but its not public yet. Like you I've merely thought of something and later had something related in my feed. Not once but many times.

Expensive toy

This is actually a very old model. It’s an original AH64A model which leaves me scratching my head because the US Army converted the last A model to a D model somewhere near 2013. Leaves me wondering if this was an Israeli, Greek, or another foreign military that still operates A model Apaches.

@@secretsquirrel572 United States Army is written on the side and Lower Heidelberg Township is in Pennsylvania.

@@sideboob6851 Ssssh! You're *ruining* the conspiracy theory! :D

Using the tanks as practice no doubt? haha

How did they get the bird out again? Did they disassemble it and truck it out or sling load under a heavy lift chopper? Curious. I've seen them do both. I hauled a Jet Ranger off of a busy TN highway on a rollback wrecker couple years ago. THAT was one tedious and nerve wracking tow.

@@manaboutit1594 Trucked it out. Tore up their yard doing it, too, from what I understand. First touchdown autorotation I'd done in that helicopter, because they weren't letting us do autorotations to the ground because the main rotor blades were cutting off the tail booms. My particular accident was one of seven accidents in a week and the 18th ABN Corps Commander was incensed. Fortunately, the Collateral Board, which determined whether or not I should be made to pay for the aircraft, firmly said "no."

@@waynemorgan8727 your name sounds familiar. Were you in B trp 1 /17 cav.

@@lawerenceseliger5385 Nope. I was in 35th Engr Group flight detachment at Ft. Bragg; D 4/7 Cav in ROK, and C 3/5 Cav at Ft. Lewis when I was on Active Duty. If 1/17Cav was at Bragg in '72 - '74, I might have flown one of their OH-58s once on a mission for a couple SF guys when there was no one available from the Cav, but that's as close as I got.

@@waynemorgan8727 that sounds like a hell of a story

@MrPoediggidy my thoughts exactly. Heck, it was back in 1982 when a US Army helicopter landed on one of the baseball diamonds behind our high school and I was lucky to sit in the cockpit with the helmet on that made the Gatlin gun point wherever the helmet faced. It was a Marine Corps Cobra. I'm not sure if they even have them anymore but they were amazing up close! The following year I joined the Marines as well heheh..

@@mattmurphy7030 ...lol thumbs up !!

Why would there be a full maintenance team flying around? Do you know how many subsystems there are on an Apache? No they determined which personnel would most likely be needed and then put them on a helicopter with their tools to fly them over there. Maintenance is performed in the hanger, not in fields.

@@neilkurzman4907 I worked on Hueys. We’re trained battle damage assessment and repair. This even though not on sortie, applies here.

I was wondering if I was the only one seeing German flag.

@@filsed Flying from a neighbor's deck, it looks like. In spite of the German-sounding name, Lower Heidelberg Twsp is in Berks County, Pennsylvania.