"Pull Pitch" i was expecting a max power take off 4:07 WTH was that out of the exhaust?
@fufoot5 ай бұрын
Sorry to disappoint... Back in the day, when I was an Army helicopter pilot in Vietnam, when there was a scheduled departure time for a mission, we referred to that time as when we were to "pull pitch".... regardless of when the individual aircraft in the flight actually "cranked up." You were expected to be ready to go, to "pull pitch" as a group. It was just a commonly used term that needed no explanation........... As for the puff of smoke.. I am at a loss for a definitive explanation... I'm not a gas turbine technician. But I have witnessed it many times when an idling engine throttled up and it was never an issue.
5 ай бұрын
@fufoot Thank you for the explanation... Welcome Home Sir!!!
@threestarsandasun046 ай бұрын
2004 Bell Uh-1h Huey Helicopter
@tylerbuckley46616 ай бұрын
Love the oh 6A and the uh1h
@fufoot6 ай бұрын
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 ;-)
@javacup9127 ай бұрын
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.
@fufoot7 ай бұрын
Did you serve as a pilot in Vietnam?
@javacup9127 ай бұрын
@@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.
@CharlieGroh8 ай бұрын
...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)
@fufoot8 ай бұрын
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.
@CharlieGroh8 ай бұрын
@@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!
@fufoot8 ай бұрын
@@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.
@CharlieGroh8 ай бұрын
@@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!
@markwroblewski65009 ай бұрын
Looks like flying testicle.
@Workerbee-zy5nx10 ай бұрын
Nam era warriors.
@jamescameron185511 ай бұрын
We are t he hae one
@bryanentwistle7479 Жыл бұрын
Charlie Horse Loach from the Viet Nam war.....?
@fufoot Жыл бұрын
It served in Vietnam with C Trp 7/17th Cav until April'72, then H Trp 10th Cav until the end... That man in the front left seat, messing with the camera, was one of the C Trp loach pilots who flew it. I also was in C Trp, and then H Trp, thru 18Aug72.... Cobra pilot.... click on this url for photos> museum.vhpa.org/17thcav/7thsquad/7thsquadCTroop.shtml
@mickyday2008 Жыл бұрын
Top chopper
@waynearrington6727 Жыл бұрын
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 Жыл бұрын
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. :-(
@jeffreypinder939810 ай бұрын
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.
@LousTube Жыл бұрын
Great work on the fps!!
@fernandotiradobenitez3478 Жыл бұрын
Greetings from Spain, ex FAMET. Unidad de helicópteros. UH 1H, CH47 pilot.
@fighterpilot5105 Жыл бұрын
The Dynamic Duo...
@ericlakota1847 Жыл бұрын
What a time less bird they call it farari of chopper I think it's 911torbo and apache is farari and cobras are the corvetts and black hawk is suburban and the chunuik are mack trucks
@xGALAXYRADIOx Жыл бұрын
Everyone shake hands! Lol fastest and most fun helicopter I’ve ever flown . Brrrrrrdrrfdrrrr
@Incognito-vc9wj Жыл бұрын
Read it again, it says “Pitch”
@doomer_dame Жыл бұрын
I love the loach
@ed12151 Жыл бұрын
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.
@PK_KCP Жыл бұрын
yehhhh ... I like both of them.
@user-fc6fw1xc7q Жыл бұрын
LOVE HUEY
@ethankeast99662 жыл бұрын
Name a better duo....
@slowpoke96Z282 жыл бұрын
Glitch in the Matrix at 1:33 lol.
@donaldedwards68962 жыл бұрын
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! 😂
@nedstudios64902 жыл бұрын
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.
@trevorwhitham67422 жыл бұрын
That tiny helicopter what was it used for?
@fufoot2 жыл бұрын
Aero-scouts, low level observer/hunters..Read more about them here... www.wearethemighty.com/mighty-history/the-loach-was-one-of-the-riskiest-helicopter-assignments-in-vietnam/
@trevorwhitham67422 жыл бұрын
@@fufoot thanks
@milesbrown80162 жыл бұрын
Those “ little birds “ were really nifty and effective….
@songsinthedrawer2 жыл бұрын
Awesome video! Flew Hueys in the Guard
@carterbishop2742 жыл бұрын
Sounds like a beating hart
@vrdengineering52042 жыл бұрын
DAMMIT I WANT AN OH-6
@gianpaolovillani63213 жыл бұрын
The UH-1H Huey is a beautiful helicopter, I want it to remain operational for many more decades and never need replacing unnecessarily.
@gianpaolovillani63213 жыл бұрын
The OH-6 Cayuse is a beautiful helicopter, I want it to remain operational for many more decades and never need replacing unnecessarily.
@casual99822 жыл бұрын
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 Жыл бұрын
@@casual9982 drones can, without the expensive pilots on board.
@bigal4304 Жыл бұрын
great little helo..
5 ай бұрын
Oh OK!!! let's just stay in the 60's forever
@magicyeti56303 жыл бұрын
4:06 mmm 🤔
@cptairwolf3 жыл бұрын
1:30 Damn, it's so powerful it's bending space and time LOL
@rickdee673 жыл бұрын
Beautiful birds
@steppib.45983 жыл бұрын
3:40
@toomanywaystofall3 жыл бұрын
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...
@dgoddard3 жыл бұрын
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.
@lukewarmwater64123 жыл бұрын
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.....
@mikeohandley67653 жыл бұрын
My younger brother Hugh was an AH-1G mechanic in Vietnam. He spent his time there at some place called Camp Eagle.
@WestendAngst2 жыл бұрын
I,m not positive but I think Camp Eagle may have been at Bien Hoa AB ,,,Part of 101st Airborne
@mikeohandley67652 жыл бұрын
@@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.
@moriver38573 жыл бұрын
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.
@fufoot3 жыл бұрын
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!
@hermanguzman14603 жыл бұрын
These 2 would great for the hog hunts in Texas.
@jb8133 жыл бұрын
for those who "lack patience"? 3 1/2 minutes of nothing is a long time
@alfredonovas33323 жыл бұрын
Alfredo novas
@jeromewhelan67233 жыл бұрын
Ahhh, memories of my first UH-1 flight over southern Vietnam
@fukiincatt3 жыл бұрын
0:04 Buzzard GTA V🚁
@dennislyons30953 жыл бұрын
AH! The soundtrack of my (our) youth! Over 2000 hours flying both the Huey & Cobra I'd love to fly either one today.