When I was around 8-9 years old, I got to ride shotgun in one of those old birds in 1971. As with the case of any kid that age, I loved to see aircraft up close and better yet, in the air. The operator of the bird was contracted with a orange grove grower to spray pesticide on the grove. The pilot and his buddy motioned me over to them. He asked me if I wanted to go up for a ride. Didn't hesitate and away I went. What a memory and experience for a kid to have. A pilot wouldn't dare the same scenario today. He would lose his license, or jail time.... maybe both. 51 years later, I often think about that day and how it was one of the best moments in my life....
Que maravilla, y que envidia. Este helicóptero parece un ser vivo , casi tanto como una máquina de vapor. De niño ejercían una fascinación como un monstruo.
I'll bet that was fun. Hard to have fun in this over regulated world these days. If something is fun it's probably illegal.Then again I'm an Australian.
@@johnkauppi7078I know. It was a shame when Australia went full dictator and took people's guns. You Australians are a special breed and your government is regulating and immigrating you to death
Australia here. That has got to be the best sounding helicopter engine, ever. Sounds just like my old 8 ton Dodge wheat truck with its 361 big block V8. Twin exhaust system with short straight flow mufflers.
Spent 8+ years wrenching flying rigging with one of these, Love the sound the rumble of the air frame and the easy feel on the stick, Check the fuel and fill the oil.😁
Was that at New River? Many years ago, the entrance to New River Air Station had an H-34 at the entrance. I was stationed there for 4 years and thought HMM-262 was one of the squadrons I was attached to on one of my Med cruises. I was skids - HML-167. It was so long ago, I don't remember.
@MikeBUSA yes,it was at New River Mike. We would fly home to Bryan Ohio on three occasions. In the fall of 1962, we became a transition squadron. We trained jet pilots to fly helicopters They were not happy pilots.
@colinkulasik1128 No gear box. There is a clutch that sits on the back side of the engine and goes on up to the main gear box that drives the main rotor. Sometimes the pilots during warmup will drop the engine rpm and pick it back up again to make sure of their clutch connection. This same clutch is used to disengage the engine from the main rotor transmission during auto rotation. I appreciate your questions.
Used to watch them fly by when I was a kid. The Uruguayan Navy regularly flew these helicopters from Maldonado to Montevideo. A sight to behold and an engine roar to remember.
Love radial helicopters, there in Eastern Europe in agricultural operations, have seen a lot of work done by a Ka-26. That engine sound always cheers me up.
I was an instructor while stationed in Germany. I was demonstrating a maximum p over takeoff when something came loose in the rotor head. I did a quick 180 & got back on the ground. RED XE'D IT. MAINTENANCE COULDN'T find the problem, fired it up, it went into ground resonance, flopped on its side and beat itself to death. Thank God no one got hurt. Nice old bird but every time I see one I'm reminded of one more day I cheated the grim reaper.
I was assigned to HMM 161 in Chu Lai and Marble Mountain USMC. Spent many hours patching those crates back into flying condition. USMC, 1962to 1967. Semper Fi
my brother was a pilot helicopter pilot of the UH 34D in Vietnam, too. He was at a place called Phu Bai. He was in the United States Marine Corps? Still living 81 years old and I’m glad to see your post.
Sounds like an old hot rod running. Sounds like he’s having to pump the accelerator pedal to keep it running then pressing the clutch in and shifting gears. Love these old whirly-birds
Apparently that's exactly what he was doing - "The UH-34D helicopter was equipped with a transmission that allowed for shifting between different gears. This transmission system enabled the helicopter to effectively manage its engine power and rotor speed to achieve the desired level of performance during different flight phases, such as takeoff, cruising, and landing."
Wrong - It is only for rotor engagement after starting - Your left hand controls the throttle - Taxi and flight is done at top of the green - I spent 8+ years flying one before 9-11. @@thomashebert5907
@@thomashebert5907it doesn't shift gears, the pilot is engaging the clutch,my dad was a helicopter mechanic and was very familiar with these helicopters
Several decades ago, when I was quite young, Popular Science had a front-page article about one to these someone was marketing as a family camper. I love the radial engine, and if I were rotary wing qualified, I might just have to have one of these.
For those wondering why it sounded like it was "shifting" while spinning up it was, sort of. It does have different rotor RPMs for different phases of flight. It is rated at 1,525 horsepower at 2,800 r.p.m. for takeoff. 1,425 horsepower at 2,700 r.p.m. for 30-minute limit and then 1,275 horsepower at 2,500 r.p.m. continuous.
Wrong - clutching for start only, A torque converter flooded then drained - switch on power up join needles roll off switch off sprag now powers the rotors
Flew an S 58 with the Wright 1820 for 8 years , The free wheel clutch was engaged with fly weights and the torque converter matched shaft speed and engine speed , The fly weights engaged the mechanical shafts (autorotation clutch) and the torque converter emptied to a tank ready for the next start. Worked quite well.@@georgekaplan6451
Hi good morning thanks of share your video,,, spectacular sound,,, splendid aircraft,,, amazing helicópter SIKORSKY,,, CONGRATULATIONS and have a good time,,,
That monster engine is in the front, like a motorhome and there is a two piece drive line inbetween the seats that goes to a differential then another truck style drive line vertical to the main rotor on top. You should get inside one of these, it's a real hoot!
When we got the engines from O&R, the engines we all built up and ready to install on the helicopter. The engines were benched check before we got them.
Remember the T.V. show "Riptide" in the mid 80's, with the pink helicopter they called "Screaming Mimi." Man that show was bad, I do however remember they would always recite the helicopter pilots prayer before the would startup the Mimi,"God bless this helicopter, especially the pistons." Which is funny because I'm pretty sure the helicopter used in the series had been converted to gas turbine.
This and the previous model used a front mounted radial engine...Later a turbine powered model (S-58T) was used by many military and civilian entities.......The LA Sheriff's Dept used a S-58DT until fairly recently (IIRC).......Don't know if it's still in their fleet or not....
No wonder they called them, _"Mean Marines"_ ... Getting troops from point A to point B in those non-turbine engined relics - Almost like a bus that flew! Big ol' radial Pratt & Whitney (or Wright) in front below the cockpit that made it sound different during start and full power-up until you switched the rotors on line! They still use them both for military and civilian duty, although many now have been refitted with more modern computerized controls and turbine engines...
My friend was a Corpsman in Vietnam and he said that he had a dust off in a Sikorski UH-34 Chocktah and rounds were coming up through the bottom of the fusalodge 😧
TC 2:13 - Does he actually shift it into a higher gear? wild "The UH-34D helicopter was equipped with a transmission that allowed for shifting between different gears. This transmission system enabled the helicopter to effectively manage its engine power and rotor speed to achieve the desired level of performance during different flight phases, such as takeoff, cruising, and landing."
No - the clutch to spin up the rotors is a torque converter type, switch on fluid goes in - Roll throttle up join needles, Roll off throttle and sprag clutch engages shaft- roll throttle up , Switch off torque converter drains of fluid - and run up to flight idle and warm the engine up and then go fly. Note: ground run the engine before engaging clutch. The engine hates the cold😁
It's the same engine as the B-17 bomber the Pratt & Whitney double wasp 18 cylinder 2000 HP radial engine! This engine can operate with cylinders blown away by gun fire !
that's cool. switching gears to get the rotors up to taxiing speed. and then later probbably a couple more gears higher the headspeed is fast enoegh to take off.
That engine sounds like it has a full race cam in it, totally BOSS!
Long duration, high lift racing cam.
When I was around 8-9 years old, I got to ride shotgun in one of those old birds in 1971. As with the case of any kid that age, I loved to see aircraft up close and better yet, in the air. The operator of the bird was contracted with a orange grove grower to spray pesticide on the grove. The pilot and his buddy motioned me over to them. He asked me if I wanted to go up for a ride. Didn't hesitate and away I went. What a memory and experience for a kid to have. A pilot wouldn't dare the same scenario today. He would lose his license, or jail time.... maybe both. 51 years later, I often think about that day and how it was one of the best moments in my life....
Que maravilla, y que envidia. Este helicóptero parece un ser vivo , casi tanto como una máquina de vapor. De niño ejercían una fascinación como un monstruo.
I'll bet that was fun. Hard to have fun in this over regulated world these days. If something is fun it's probably illegal.Then again I'm an Australian.
@@johnkauppi7078I know. It was a shame when Australia went full dictator and took people's guns. You Australians are a special breed and your government is regulating and immigrating you to death
rien à cirer de vos histoires !! ayez de la pudeur pour ne pas en tartiner les lecteurs !!!!!!!
Such a unique sound with radial engine power.
Rodrigo POLICIAL aquí a Huaquillas Huaquillas Huaquillas Vaquillas
Too smooth for Harley Davidson .
We all think of the thump of the Huey when we think of military helicopters, but this is a very cool sound!
@@bastarddoggy my barracks at Ft Benning was near the airfield. The sound of Huey and Chinook was ever present.
@@bastarddoggyany helicopter can thump, it's called blade slap. It's not isolated to one helicopter.
I could listen to that engine idle all day
Me too. The sound of my yought
Tak samo mam
Australia here. That has got to be the best sounding helicopter engine, ever. Sounds just like my old 8 ton Dodge wheat truck with its 361 big block V8. Twin exhaust system with short straight flow mufflers.
Still can't believe that bus can fly
That's because they built things to last in those days.
It's a Sikorsky
I believe it has a radial engine as powerplant.
Может ! Это борт нашего президента ! Ми-4 называется .
I remember years ago a fellow flew one down from Indianapolis in to Lexington ky to set an air handler A/C on the roof of a shopping mall
Spent 8+ years wrenching flying rigging with one of these, Love the sound the rumble of the air frame and the easy feel on the stick, Check the fuel and fill the oil.😁
😂😂😂 as long as she ain't dry right!?
If it's dry, Someone dies!@@merrittorius
What a Beautiful Machine , could watch her for hours,thank you for the footage
Thanks for sharing.i had over a 1000 flight hours in the 34 as a crew chief with HMM 262.
Was that at New River? Many years ago, the entrance to New River Air Station had an H-34 at the entrance. I was stationed there for 4 years and thought HMM-262 was one of the squadrons I was attached to on one of my Med cruises. I was skids - HML-167. It was so long ago, I don't remember.
@MikeBUSA yes,it was at New River Mike. We would fly home to Bryan Ohio on three occasions. In the fall of 1962, we became a transition squadron. We trained jet pilots to fly helicopters
They were not happy pilots.
Did I hear that shifting gears? Does that have a multi speed gearbox?
@colinkulasik1128
No gear box. There is a clutch that sits on the back side of the engine and goes on up to the main gear box that drives the main rotor. Sometimes the pilots during warmup will drop the engine rpm and pick it back up again to make sure of their clutch connection. This same clutch is used to disengage the engine from the main rotor transmission during auto rotation. I appreciate your questions.
Dad flew these in the Army. Awesome
Sounds like a Big cam Musclecar starting! Love it! Long live the Piston powered vehicles!
Used to watch them fly by when I was a kid. The Uruguayan Navy regularly flew these helicopters from Maldonado to Montevideo. A sight to behold and an engine roar to remember.
Love radial helicopters, there in Eastern Europe in agricultural operations, have seen a lot of work done by a Ka-26. That engine sound always cheers me up.
The Ka 26 is a great helicopters.
So adaptable.
I was an instructor while stationed in Germany. I was demonstrating a maximum p over takeoff when something came loose in the rotor head. I did a quick 180 & got back on the ground. RED XE'D IT. MAINTENANCE COULDN'T find the problem, fired it up, it went into ground resonance, flopped on its side and beat itself to death. Thank God no one got hurt. Nice old bird but every time I see one I'm reminded of one more day I cheated the grim reaper.
I was assigned to HMM 161 in Chu Lai and Marble Mountain USMC. Spent many hours patching those crates back into flying condition. USMC, 1962to 1967. Semper Fi
Welcome home Bill. Thanks for all you and the boys did. SEMPER FI.
Semper Fi
my brother was a pilot helicopter pilot of the UH 34D in Vietnam, too. He was at a place called Phu Bai. He was in the United States Marine Corps? Still living 81 years old and I’m glad to see your post.
Always liked them. I remember the pink one on rip tide. King bees used them to great effect. Tough as hell and reliable too
Thats a rare sound nowadays! How cool is that!?
Sounds like an old hot rod running. Sounds like he’s having to pump the accelerator pedal to keep it running then pressing the clutch in and shifting gears. Love these old whirly-birds
Apparently that's exactly what he was doing - "The UH-34D helicopter was equipped with a transmission that allowed for shifting between different gears. This transmission system enabled the helicopter to effectively manage its engine power and rotor speed to achieve the desired level of performance during different flight phases, such as takeoff, cruising, and landing."
Wrong - It is only for rotor engagement after starting - Your left hand controls the throttle - Taxi and flight is done at top of the green - I spent 8+ years flying one before 9-11. @@thomashebert5907
@@thomashebert5907it doesn't shift gears, the pilot is engaging the clutch,my dad was a helicopter mechanic and was very familiar with these helicopters
Several decades ago, when I was quite young, Popular Science had a front-page article about one to these someone was marketing as a family camper. I love the radial engine, and if I were rotary wing qualified, I might just have to have one of these.
I remember that article!
For those wondering why it sounded like it was "shifting" while spinning up it was, sort of. It does have different rotor RPMs for different phases of flight.
It is rated at 1,525 horsepower at 2,800 r.p.m. for takeoff. 1,425 horsepower at 2,700 r.p.m. for 30-minute limit and then 1,275 horsepower at 2,500 r.p.m. continuous.
Thanks for the info because I was just about to ask
Wrong - clutching for start only, A torque converter flooded then drained - switch on power up join needles roll off switch off sprag now powers the rotors
@@HongyaMa that was really interesting. I learnt that only the other day from another video.
Flew an S 58 with the Wright 1820 for 8 years , The free wheel clutch was engaged with fly weights and the torque converter matched shaft speed and engine speed , The fly weights engaged the mechanical shafts (autorotation clutch) and the torque converter emptied to a tank ready for the next start. Worked quite well.@@georgekaplan6451
Beautiful sound!
Great video, thank you very much for sharing
The best sound
Music to my ears!
Flew that in Germany in the late 60's. After spending a year in Hueys is was, shall we say, interesting. But it sure was a workhorse.
Hi good morning thanks of share your video,,, spectacular sound,,, splendid aircraft,,, amazing helicópter SIKORSKY,,,
CONGRATULATIONS and have a good time,,,
Sounds lovely.
That monster engine is in the front, like a motorhome and there is a two piece drive line inbetween the seats that goes to a differential then another truck style drive line vertical to the main rotor on top. You should get inside one of these, it's a real hoot!
A single shaft with damper couplings on each end -
I enjoyed that, having only discovered this beautiful helicopter from the 60s
There's a memory! Flying into an LZ in the damn thing is....exciting!
I was a Crew Chief of a UH-1 USMC 1974-78 HMLA-169 and HMLA-369. These were our predecessors. I would trust the UH-34 any day over the Osprey.
Excellent video!
That’s the best sound I’ve ever heard in my life lol ❤
Sounds like a '81 Suburban starting up on a 20°f morning.
What a beauty!
Sounds like an old Dodge cold start lol love it!
32 cylinder radial beast!
This is super cool.
Hearing a wright R-1820 radial crank up is awesome. I think the later models were equipped with turbines if I remember correctly
There are 2 H- 34 " CHARLIE" restorations in my town. I love them.
When we got the engines from O&R, the engines we all built up and ready to install on the helicopter. The engines were benched check before we got them.
King bees never rest
Flew in these 1969 pensacola fl airsea rescue. great helo Harley Davidson sound. 😊
Magnificent exhaust note
S58 radial one of my favorite helicopters
Remember the T.V. show "Riptide" in the mid 80's, with the pink helicopter they called "Screaming Mimi." Man that show was bad, I do however remember they would always recite the helicopter pilots prayer before the would startup the Mimi,"God bless this helicopter, especially the pistons." Which is funny because I'm pretty sure the helicopter used in the series had been converted to gas turbine.
This and the previous model used a front mounted radial engine...Later a turbine powered model (S-58T) was used by many military and civilian entities.......The LA Sheriff's Dept used a S-58DT until fairly recently (IIRC).......Don't know if it's still in their fleet or not....
Turbine powerred was very rare, the most had the radial
Sheriff screwed the pooch and got a Puma - The two airframes were bought by Heli-Flite and the other fliers went to Bruster WA drying cherries
The Choctaw is so cool!
They were training helo in the 60s when I was stationed at Ellison field 68 super helos
At start-up, sounds just like a Plymouth I used to have with a 440 big block.
Last helicopter that used a radial engine designed for ww2 planes
And tanks as well.
What an absolute beast !!
Wouldn't it be awesome to see a CH-37?
I swear in my head I heard the theme song to the tv show Riptide when it started up. If only it was pink it would be the flying me me!
Sounds like a big block chevy marine engine w/thru hull exhaust at idle.
We jumped out of a pink one of these in the 80’s at perris
Bird is the Word.
"KING BEE" !!!!
I like the sound.
South Vietnamese flew these at my stage field back in 69/70. Hooper Stage Field, Fort Rucker.
Oh my... this is good.
Flew in these until the 46’s came over. B Co First Recon Bn, out of ChuLai in 1966.
Not so sure Id be anxious to fly in something that sounds like my Grandpas 64 Buick
As rasty as those sound on startup, I always wondered how well one of them would run with modern fuel injection.
Single injector for priming a two barrel fuel servo on top...
Old boy of the skies…..👍🏻
I always like seeing Westland Wessexes but that old piston job sounds cute.
No wonder they called them, _"Mean Marines"_ ... Getting troops from point A to point B in those non-turbine engined relics - Almost like a bus that flew! Big ol' radial Pratt & Whitney (or Wright) in front below the cockpit that made it sound different during start and full power-up until you switched the rotors on line! They still use them both for military and civilian duty, although many now have been refitted with more modern computerized controls and turbine engines...
Looks like the front would be too heavy. 😅 "She may not look like she can fly, but she can!!"
She's an old HMM-362 Ugly Angel.
yup, I was in 362 1966/7 and was a gunner in YL37
...with that start-up sound i'm visionating mid 60s monster truck cab and a extra long hurst shift knob...
I havent been to the EAA since 76
I always thought these things looked like giant menacing grasshoppers.
I watched them as a kid at Mcas Tustin, my pops was a career Marine, helicopter mechanic.
It uses a B-17 engine -the Wright R-1820 Cyclone !!
Looks like a enggine truck with 3speed transmision before take off.
The sound of Freedom
Sounds just like when I used to jump start Darrell Waltrip's stock car back in my day lmao.
Sounds like the souped up Ford Galaxy back in 1970.
When your out of 34's your out of helicopters
Awesome
Nemo grew up. BIG! And sprouted rotors when he hit puberty. Try fitting him in a fish tank now buddy.. Awesome machine!!! 👍👍
Yeah baby! Now that's a HELICOPTER. They don't fly. They beat the air into submission, like the Gods had intended :O)
Cool! King Bee ?
My friend was a Corpsman in Vietnam and he said that he had a dust off in a Sikorski UH-34 Chocktah and rounds were coming up through the bottom of the fusalodge 😧
I wasn't expecting to see it taxi over to a certain spot like an airplane before it did its vertical takeoff. 🙂
dayum what kind of cam is in the helo ?? LOL
Sounds like the old 74 Chevy farm truck, with open headers and pulling a full hay wagon….uphill.
TC 2:13 - Does he actually shift it into a higher gear? wild "The UH-34D helicopter was equipped with a transmission that allowed for shifting between different gears. This transmission system enabled the helicopter to effectively manage its engine power and rotor speed to achieve the desired level of performance during different flight phases, such as takeoff, cruising, and landing."
No - the clutch to spin up the rotors is a torque converter type, switch on fluid goes in - Roll throttle up join needles,
Roll off throttle and sprag clutch engages shaft- roll throttle up , Switch off torque converter drains of fluid - and run up to flight idle and warm the engine up and then go fly. Note: ground run the engine before engaging clutch.
The engine hates the cold😁
YL-37 Flown by the Ugly Angels in Viet Nam ...... Semper Fidelis Forever !!!!
It sounds more like a dragster than a helo! 😂😂😂😂😂
and off we go
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I flew as a gunner on this same UH34 in 1966.......HMM362!
Real men flying around in a copter that sounds like a super sized Harley.
Harold the Helicopter
Looooove it!
It's the same engine as the B-17 bomber the Pratt & Whitney double wasp 18 cylinder 2000 HP radial engine! This engine can operate with cylinders blown away by gun fire !
Wright R-1820 Cyclone
Nop...This CH-34D "Choctaw" powerhouse is the Wright R-1820 Cyclone with 1 525 SHp or Shaft Horsepower...
It's actually a 9 cylinder radial engine, spent 4 yrs. In the Marines in HMM 361,163,362 .
Klingt wie ein alter Panzer oder LKW 😂😂😂
Muss geil sein das Teil zu fliegen 👍
Sounds like a MOPAR cold start
that's cool. switching gears to get the rotors up to taxiing speed. and then later probbably a couple more gears higher the headspeed is fast enoegh to take off.
no gears, hydraulic clutch,,,,drive shaft to transmission reduction gears
Wow 👏
Cherry dryer and Hazelnut shaker.