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We did the Baltimore cooling tower lifts and static from the blades were a concern

Amazing footage! May I kindly request your permission to include this clip in my upcoming episode? Full credit will be given in both the video and the description. Thank you.

Baltimore Aircoil👍

Load master was on point in this situation.

Good pilot….. Saved the bird and not the AC unit.

Those sky cranes can lift far more then what they say they are rated for to accomadate for the pilots giant kahonas ..nerves of steel flying that giant around buildings over so many people , cant imagine

Never seen a aircraft that big

You cant tell me, that getting a mobile crane in for this job isnt a better alternative

That's going to come out of someone's pay check under "other deductions"

We were very close to witnessing this happen at GM when the helicopter was full power over the roof with a nearly 20,000 lb piece of our air handler and was losing lift. The hot humid air over the roof changed the air density and the helicopter was overheating. It high tailed it off the roof, regained some lift and immediately set it back in the field. It made for a scary lift. Had to wait for cooler morning temps the next day.

Heads are gonna roll

A lift pilot's worst nightmare. Better close to the ground however if it must let loose.

i need an rc skycrane to lift little logs around with . that would be awsem

Oops

One of my brothers was attached to the 108 th “ Heavy Helicopter “ units in the Connecticut Army National Guard when this helicopter was officially retired from the U.S. military for the final flight(s ) . Being a former full time US Army aviator , he was also a foreman at Sikorsky Helicopter in Stratford Connecticut . The Sikorsky Corporation sold the rights and blueprints and all tooling and parts to Ericsson Crane . They were then no longer called Sikorsky Sky Cranes . They had new data plates riveted to the aircraft with Ericsson labels . I knew one of his friends and colleagues who was part of the team that made that conversion after the final sale . There was a very few of these ever manufactured ; some were shot down in Vietnam during the war as well . CH -54 Tarhe made its first flight in 1962 … Only 100 produced .

Somebody's not getting paid this week! LOL!!!

that's what insurance is for.... sucks for all...

OOPS !

The guy sitting "backwards" and below the cockpit - 8:12 or so - is really the star of the Skycrane show. 🙂

Who pays for that!???

Pilot was like "see ya! I'm outta here! Wasn't me!"

How to turn a Carrier into a Dropperer in 1 second. Pilot probably cussing about ghetto ass riggers.

Who’s gonna pay for that?

Who said we dont need math anymore 😮

that'll tap out.

Just a fyi it drops it at 13:13

Its kinda dented

I hope no one got hurt.

Amazing ! Amazingly skilled pilot & flight crew! I wonder how that job pays the pilots ? Hope it's a lot, they sure deserve it !

Just take it up the stairs sissies

What is wrong with a ground based crane???

Dropped a brand new unit there goes 10 grand

Never mind, get it right next time. Embarrassment all round!😮

A similar if not the same chopper finished building our CN Tower in the 70s. in Toronto. It lifted the final mast antenna section. I heard of the story of a Jeep being air lifted by chopper in Vietnam, maybe the pilot did not pull the breaker cutting off power to the thumb hook release switch, the Jeep fell to the rice paddy from 8000 ft. They saw it later and said it look like the Jeep was under King Kong's foot print ! The rights of the chopper now belongs to a Canadian company in Vancouver.

Bad day. What's the lead time on that unit? 6 months? More?

least they brought a few spares =P must happen often

I live next to a Cal Fire base that has one of these, and they are really loud.

Well load her back on the truck 🚛 boy's this one came defective 😅

The only other helo that can do this cost 35million$ (new and on back-order)

All of the planning , financing, engineering, manufacturing for months and months and months, only to be destroyed at the final installation site. "Sh!t happens." 🙂 - Forest Gump

Masterful 🙏 Load Landed Perfect On Trailer… We Will Start Again After Lunch

In person that helicopter is BIG!. I worked for a roofing company that used the same helicopter to take out a big A/C unit on a roof I worked on in Mt View California. Much respect to who fly these helicopters. Mucho Grande helicopter. 🚁

I remember the Erickson Air Crane “Olga” doing the top can air lifts on the top portion of the CN Tower in Toronto back in the mid-1970s. That helicopter was the same as the one in this video. There’s a video of the helicopter sky lifts and topping out of the tower on TH-cam.

Not so much as a thank you!

Amazing how the sidewalk supervisors go straight to "expert mode" and tell you exactly what happened and why.

13:00 to see the drop.

Having spoken to the pilot of this load (my Brother-in-law), it was equipment failure (simplified explanation was the hook malfunctioned and opened up) that caused the load to drop.

nice quality video, but I saw another angle here that shows the positioning of the crew on the ground: th-cam.com/video/XlTJDcLbLOg/w-d-xo.html

Load drops. Pilot slowely exits stage left lol

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