When I reported to Ft Knox for Basic Training in August 1963, one of the first things we did was to be taken up in an H19. Man, was that thing LOUD! There was a huge radial aircraft engine in the nose and it made the interior sound like being inside a bass drum. When I was in Jr High School in Arlington, VA in 1950 I got a demonstration ride at Ft Meyer in an H13 flown by a Bell test pilot. That was a thrill I never forgot.
LOL...1956, the year of my birth.. Yeah those were the good times. Even to this day, the pre-flight inspections are pretty much the same. The video training clip is in perfect condition to watch. That's amazing. Thanks for sharing.
We were always told that my dad was in training films and it is so great to finally see one. Now if #AIRBOYD #AvGeek can find films of the Square dancing Helicopter unit he was part of. There is a book Dancing Rotors that chronicles all the different units and the history of these men and machines.
@. my dad never really talked about flying in Korea or Vietnam but he always loved his helicopters. Listening to a TV show he could tell if it was the right sound to machine, Once while visiting him at the nursing home he said, "Good you didn't get here earlier because I was flying. " I asked where at. He replayed," Chinook over Pikes Peak" He was currently in Indiana. He was born and raised in Colorado and his last duty station was Ft. Carson. He retired in the late 60 but passed a flight physical and reenlisted and was stationed at Ft. Rucker in the fall of 1980 and spent the next 5 years there. In Italy he was a flight instructor for the Italian pilots. We have pictures of him with fellow pilots placing church spires on church roof, or moving a 16th century Madonna into place. They did a lot of good will type work while station there. Hauling building supply's for a mountain shelter in the Italian Alps and such.
I was with Lima Co., 3dBn, 4thMar...we made a few assaults in the 34s, We eventually primarily landed in the Sea Knights 46s. We saw a lot of action around the DMZ...Operation Hastings and Prairie....Semper Fi
Flew around Da Nang Harbor ship to ship on CH-34s and Ch-46s in 1969 2nd Bn 26th Marines, Chu Lai, An Hoa, Hai Van, Hills 37, 21, 10, 55, and 90, Namo bridge, Dong Ha many other nameless places.
My much older brother took Army Helicopter Pilot training there in the 60's and flew in Vietnam. He flew Huey and Cobra... He did three tours and got shot at and shot down but survived it.
Very well-done video--realistic, well-scripted and narrated. Done with a real pilot as opposed to the actors with unrealistic dialogues in air force fam videos of that era.
Yes, on a counterclockwise rotor the right side generates more lift than the left. To counteract this, rotors are typically designed with a "flapping hinge" which allows the advancing rotor to flap up and the retreating rotor to flap down. In effect, this decreases the lifting area on the right side and increases the lifting area on the left, offsetting asymmetrical lift.
Starched fatigues, spit shined boots, Ridgeway cap...back then the Helo was just a flying Jeep for the Army. He's taking off from what used to be the "Lemon Lot" at Rucker, and the other Airfield is Tabernacle and that weird little strip behind the old C-Company WOC barracks.
i saw one of these take off sometime in 1970 and after rode in huey's many of time i thought i could have out run this on the ground. 1/27th 25thth div. class of '70
7:52 - "Remove the access panel on the right side [do not *drop* the access panel] ..." I'm surprised they let that little near-blooper stay in the film. :D
Those flat- top fatigue caps were called "Ridgway caps" after General Matthew Ridgway, who was the inspiration for their creation. It was said Ridgway thought the Army's previous fatigue caps were too sloppy and un-miltary looking. Fidel Castro adopted this type of cap and wore it constantly.
These were certainly different times. Loose headgear was not suppose dot be worn on the flight line in my time. Can't imagine dumping 100LL into my hand either to check it for water.
Preflight fail at the 8 min mark.Black box flopping around loose in the battery compartment. I'd be yelling for the crew chief about that. Did my Aircraft mechanic's training at Ft.Rucker in 1960
Rode in a bunch of the Marine corps 34 and sea knights 66-67 . Can't say enough good things about the pilot's and crews. Ball's of steel every one of them. Gun ships too. SEMPER FIDELIS .
Back in the early 70's I was based out of Fort Norman, and one of these bad boys came in to pick up some drums of fuel for some fly camp somewhere, it wasn't a turbo conversion but the old piston engine, gutless as hell.. Anyrate, the pilot stowed as many drums of avgas as he dared and tried to lift into a hover, no dice, it almost lifted off but powered out. After rechecking weights and measures, the old boy decided the only way to get the thing off the ground was by taxiing down the runway.. so, off he went, eventually, after taking up what seemed like half the strip, he pulled the thing into the air, belching black smoke and clearly struggling, but he was off the ground and gaining altitude, very very slowly... Luckily the terrain was flat as a tack so, he could take his time getting altitude but,boy, never forgot that... I was on a 55T later, and marveled at the power that thing had, would have handled that job easily..
Unless I'm mistaken, there's no evidence that Reagan was responsible for this particular training film. By 1956, when this training film was made, Reagan was no longer on active duty with the First Motion Picture Unit of the AAF. That ended after WWII. His Reserve Commission expired in 1953. __ www.reaganlibrary.gov/sreference/military-service-of-ronald-reagan
Absolutely intriguing! I'd luv 2 b a HD[Hvy Duty] HcPilot.Highly unlikely that dream'll com tru,so I'll njoy 'em vicariously. Kudos 2 the Narrator & Pilot 4 a competent commentary & demonstration. May2020 B'dos,WI
Thanks for clearing that up. I have one more question. On a counter clockwise rotating rotor wouldn't forward momentum only give extra lift on the right side of the helicopter? As the right blade would be moving into the wind and the left with it. Or does an airfoil also work backwards?
The advancing blade creates more lift than those retreating, but cyclic input by the pilot compensates for this, in this model forward and right cyclic takes care of the problem.
There's no such thing as "transitional lift". It's just a mispronunciation of "translational lift", which is the additional lift that is created by the forward movement of the helicopter.
Be sure to check for Crew Chief pee on the ramp under the fuselage. Not sure if it's pee ? If you're a butterbar jeep flying that day, you taste it. ( unless of course you been workin' a flight more than a week, long enough to know better !
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Sure, it was OK. These birds were designed to leak oil, just like any other military vehicle. The only thing that wasn't supposed to leak was your bladder.
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I thought that was hilarious,even I had a clear glass cup for Cessnas and piper when I was a student pilot.Love the smell of Avgas in the morning,I guess.
Be cool to convert one into a living motorhome helicopter, you could set down obviously anywhere with all the comforts of the motorhome. Strap on an XR 250 or quad and what a deal.
Believe it or not, after the military got rid of its H-19s and lots of surplus ones came on the market, there was a real scheme to sell conversions of some of them into motorhomes during the 1970s! Look up the Winnebago Heli-Home. (The actual conversion was done by a firm called Orlando Helicopters.) Unsurprisingly, practically no one actually wanted to buy one: between the huge starting price, the high operating cost for a fairly hefty helicopter, and all the other headaches that would be associated with owning and flying one, it was simply too damned expensive and impractical. Even rental turned out to be too much to ask. What amazes me is that someone actually thought the idea made commercial sense!
The Army is the very best in making very, very boring training videos. Whenever they turned on the "sleep machine" ALA (the projector) we knew we were in for a sleepy presentation. They even managed to make the Cobra training video boring! LOL
This model was not a lot of fun to fly, the throttle return spring was quite stiff and it had a bad habit of going into ground resonance at the slightest excuse...Other than that it was fine for the era it was used...
"it had a bad habit of going into ground resonance at the slightest excuse" ... I'm wondering if you can catch a hint of that in the film. Around 20:56 I saw some ground wobble that looked like a bit of resonance was starting to develop until he damped it down.
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The pilot/star of this video is Jack W. McKeever. Amazing video of my Grandpa 😊
Tell us more abt your granddad!
He has a cap as Fidel Castro
14:08 Your Grandpa looks like Tom Hanks in this shot.
🍂🍁..Thats Righteous man.., Oops , Sorry Ms Bennet !!! 😄👍
He clearly knows his business !! ~Peace ..🍂🍁
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When I reported to Ft Knox for Basic Training in August 1963, one of the first things we did was to be taken up in an H19. Man, was that thing LOUD! There was a huge radial aircraft engine in the nose and it made the interior sound like being inside a bass drum. When I was in Jr High School in Arlington, VA in 1950 I got a demonstration ride at Ft Meyer in an H13 flown by a Bell test pilot. That was a thrill I never forgot.
LOL...1956, the year of my birth.. Yeah those were the good times. Even to this day, the pre-flight inspections are pretty much the same. The video training clip is in perfect condition to watch. That's amazing. Thanks for sharing.
my year as well lolol
We were always told that my dad was in training films and it is so great to finally see one. Now if #AIRBOYD #AvGeek can find films of the Square dancing Helicopter unit he was part of. There is a book Dancing Rotors that chronicles all the different units and the history of these men and machines.
@. my dad never really talked about flying in Korea or Vietnam but he always loved his helicopters. Listening to a TV show he could tell if it was the right sound to machine, Once while visiting him at the nursing home he said, "Good you didn't get here earlier because I was flying. " I asked where at. He replayed," Chinook over Pikes Peak" He was currently in Indiana. He was born and raised in Colorado and his last duty station was Ft. Carson. He retired in the late 60 but passed a flight physical and reenlisted and was stationed at Ft. Rucker in the fall of 1980 and spent the next 5 years there. In Italy he was a flight instructor for the Italian pilots. We have pictures of him with fellow pilots placing church spires on church roof, or moving a 16th century Madonna into place. They did a lot of good will type work while station there. Hauling building supply's for a mountain shelter in the Italian Alps and such.
I was a door gunner on a H-34 during my 1st. tour in Vietnam.
Tom Boyte, Gy.Sgt. USMC, retired
Vietnam 65-66 / 70-71
I was with Lima Co., 3dBn, 4thMar...we made a few assaults in the 34s, We eventually primarily landed in the Sea Knights 46s. We saw a lot of action around the DMZ...Operation Hastings and Prairie....Semper Fi
Flew around Da Nang Harbor ship to ship on CH-34s and Ch-46s in 1969 2nd Bn 26th Marines, Chu Lai, An Hoa, Hai Van, Hills 37, 21, 10, 55, and 90, Namo bridge, Dong Ha many other nameless places.
thank you so much ! //
Is it hard to shoot women and children ?
Nahh ,just dont lead em As much !
SFMF
@@mikepazzree1340 War is hell!
My much older brother took Army Helicopter Pilot training there in the 60's and flew in Vietnam. He flew Huey and Cobra... He did three tours and got shot at and shot down but survived it.
Starched cotton OD Santeen uniform...Cover done nicely with said starch and "Hat Block"...Army member looking sharp Sir.
When I was in the ARMY, 1968-1972, putting on our fatigues was called, Breaking Starch.
Very well-done video--realistic, well-scripted and narrated. Done with a real pilot as opposed to the actors with unrealistic dialogues in air force fam videos of that era.
Yes, on a counterclockwise rotor the right side generates more lift than the left. To counteract this, rotors are typically designed with a "flapping hinge" which allows the advancing rotor to flap up and the retreating rotor to flap down. In effect, this decreases the lifting area on the right side and increases the lifting area on the left, offsetting asymmetrical lift.
Thank you for the upload.
Starched fatigues, spit shined boots, Ridgeway cap...back then the Helo was just a flying Jeep for the Army. He's taking off from what used to be the "Lemon Lot" at Rucker, and the other Airfield is Tabernacle and that weird little strip behind the old C-Company WOC barracks.
During 1960 the first H 34 squadron 213 with Captain. Hau leader in Vietnam south .thanks for posting.(soluu huong)🇨🇦🇺🇸🇬🇧🇫🇷🇧🇪
old is gold
I adore old helicopters
Thanks for sharing, these videos are really interesting to watch.
This was the era when America was a pioneer in aviation and aviators!
i saw one of these take off sometime in 1970 and after rode in huey's many of time i thought i could have out run this on the ground. 1/27th 25thth div. class of '70
7:52 - "Remove the access panel on the right side [do not *drop* the access panel] ..." I'm surprised they let that little near-blooper stay in the film. :D
I know that this video is old, but its quality is very good
Very good, thanks per instruction
The pilot in the h -19 is my dad , he passed away 14 years this month
I’m so glad you found this video! I love it!
Very nice Mike
He was a handsome fellow...and, from the looks of it, a good pilot!!!
I am so sorry and sad to ear this , he seem like a good soldier and excellent pilot.
Hes a competent flyer....very good...bet you are proud.
Loved the Cuban style flight cap, very smart 👍
Those flat- top fatigue caps were called "Ridgway caps" after General Matthew Ridgway, who was the inspiration for their creation. It was said Ridgway thought the Army's previous fatigue caps were too sloppy and un-miltary looking. Fidel Castro adopted this type of cap and wore it constantly.
they werent coban cubay copy them from the us I wore one in 59 to 62 army first div.
just missing a havanna cigar
God the cabin of the H-19/H-34 looks so comfy.
sweet now im ready to fly
Who could have possibly thought that you could access this film in 1956 on a phones
Intresting and beautiful film
These were certainly different times. Loose headgear was not suppose dot be worn on the flight line in my time. Can't imagine dumping 100LL into my hand either to check it for water.
I smiled when the needles joined lol
@gmcjetpilot Its because of people like your brother who make are country AWESOME and protects us God Bless you and you Brother.
amazing that they ever got off the ground!
The great-grandfathers of CH46 and CH53 helicopters at 02:22 = )
Wow. AWESOME vid...thanks for posting!!!
Very interesting, neat and clean images, kept in good condition since 1956…
Thanks for sharing !
Preflight fail at the 8 min mark.Black box flopping around loose in the battery compartment. I'd be yelling for the crew chief about that. Did my Aircraft mechanic's training at Ft.Rucker in 1960
similar to SH34J ... great Chilean Navy operator
Nice chopper the H34 I knew them as the Wessex,
H-34 H-13 AND THE H-19 CHICKASAW ARE PERFECT!
Rode in a bunch of the Marine corps 34 and sea knights 66-67 . Can't say enough good things about the pilot's and crews. Ball's of steel every one of them. Gun ships too. SEMPER FIDELIS .
Back in the days getting a handful of AV gas didn't give you cancer.
probably did, just not till many years later
what is the difference between translational lift, and transitional lift?
Back in the early 70's I was based out of Fort Norman, and one of these bad boys came in to pick up some drums of fuel for some fly camp somewhere, it wasn't a turbo conversion but the old piston engine, gutless as hell.. Anyrate, the pilot stowed as many drums of avgas as he dared and tried to lift into a hover, no dice, it almost lifted off but powered out. After rechecking weights and measures, the old boy decided the only way to get the thing off the ground was by taxiing down the runway.. so, off he went, eventually, after taking up what seemed like half the strip, he pulled the thing into the air, belching black smoke and clearly struggling, but he was off the ground and gaining altitude, very very slowly... Luckily the terrain was flat as a tack so, he could take his time getting altitude but,boy, never forgot that... I was on a 55T later, and marveled at the power that thing had, would have handled that job easily..
Fort Rucker? No uniform stays that crisp except in winter.
i love these put out more please
Capt Ronald Reagan was responsible making these training movies. Yes, THAT Ronald Reagan.
pfftt... who would elect a movie star or other celebrity to being president? madness!
Unless I'm mistaken, there's no evidence that Reagan was responsible for this particular training film. By 1956, when this training film was made, Reagan was no longer on active duty with the First Motion Picture Unit of the AAF. That ended after WWII. His Reserve Commission expired in 1953. __ www.reaganlibrary.gov/sreference/military-service-of-ronald-reagan
Ah yes, the one who turned the US into a neoliberal oligarchy.
RONNY RAYGUN, great actor in his day.
@@Hebdomad7 Americans, Just like Arny nearly stayed governer.
7:58 may want to check out that battery - it's hella loose!
A Chaps I thought that too
Vielen Dank
That tiny wire in the spar was the only thing keeping this thing from loss of tail rotor?
Bartacomus Kidd yup, two wires gave tail rotor angle of attack adjustment, no fly by wire on these things
Until the pilot was deployed, the war to an end was! Smile!
Brand new CH 19.
Absolutely intriguing!
I'd luv 2 b a HD[Hvy Duty]
HcPilot.Highly unlikely that dream'll com tru,so I'll njoy 'em vicariously.
Kudos 2 the Narrator & Pilot 4 a competent commentary & demonstration.
May2020
B'dos,WI
good stuff them were the days , i expected sgt bilko to jump out some where in the film !
i was sure gomer pile was gonna jump out and say GOLEEEEEEE
Funny how the training film shows the dude just sumping the gas into his hand lol
This was awesome. You got any more of these vintage gems?
Great video
I love it 🌹💝🌹
Interesting. checking for water in the tanks by draining in your hand.
🍁🍂..Loved this !!!
Muito bom o vídeo! Parabéns 👍💚🇧🇷👏👏👏
6:58...CHECK FOR "EXCESSIVE" OIL LEAKAGE.
If all else fails reset the Servo Switch
Esse helicóptero é aqui no Brasil como sapão!!
I’ve never seen a circular piston engine before. Looks like a little jet engine
00:42 THE H-21 FLYING BANANA
No check of the safety wire on the blades? Hmmm...
Thanks for clearing that up. I have one more question. On a counter clockwise rotating rotor wouldn't forward momentum only give extra lift on the right side of the helicopter?
As the right blade would be moving into the wind and the left with it. Or does an airfoil also work backwards?
The advancing blade creates more lift than those retreating, but cyclic input by the pilot compensates for this, in this model forward and right cyclic takes care of the problem.
Fuel must have been easier on the hands back in the day
narrator: increase your rpm
copter: SQUIRREL!!!!
Power down for AR @500ft? Egads.... Just sounds so low.... this is where I bail out! 🤓
There's no such thing as "transitional lift". It's just a mispronunciation of "translational lift", which is the additional lift that is created by the forward movement of the helicopter.
How many drone comercials is enough for one video?
Did that guy doing preflight test , did he have 15 inch boots or what ? Skis
checking the fuel with your hand lol.
Yep no cancer days and you could smoke whilst doing it days.
WARTHUNDER users wish they had this kind of video for todays AC 😂
Be sure to check for Crew Chief pee on the ramp under the fuselage. Not sure if it's pee ? If you're a butterbar jeep flying that day, you taste it. ( unless of course you been workin' a flight more than a week, long enough to know better !
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"look for loose or damaged parts or for *excessive oil leakage"*
So regular oil leakage is fine?
guessing they meant excessive loss d/t normal consumption as opposed to signs of a leak
Sure, it was OK. These birds were designed to leak oil, just like any other military vehicle. The only thing that wasn't supposed to leak was your bladder.
Muito legal! 👏👏👏🇧🇷
Did you see the ashtrays.....
very nice...!!!!!
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Let’s fly boys...and girls!!!
OMG NOT ANOTHER BPO/PR
And where is his PPE @ 9:50 ?!?
VERY GOOD DOCUMENTARE, FROM BRASIL.
1:22 into the video. I much rather have the H-34
AVIÃO AGRÍCOLA
TIL that pilots used to drain fuel into a cupped hand to check for contamination, lol!
I thought that was hilarious,even I had a clear glass cup for Cessnas and piper when I was a student pilot.Love the smell of Avgas in the morning,I guess.
Be cool to convert one into a living motorhome helicopter, you could set down obviously anywhere with all the comforts of the motorhome. Strap on an XR 250 or quad and what a deal.
YOU CAN'T JUST FLY ANYWHERE. THERE ARE AIRCRAFT RESTRICTIONS FOR CERTIN AREAS, STATES AND CITY'S.
Believe it or not, after the military got rid of its H-19s and lots of surplus ones came on the market, there was a real scheme to sell conversions of some of them into motorhomes during the 1970s! Look up the Winnebago Heli-Home. (The actual conversion was done by a firm called Orlando Helicopters.) Unsurprisingly, practically no one actually wanted to buy one: between the huge starting price, the high operating cost for a fairly hefty helicopter, and all the other headaches that would be associated with owning and flying one, it was simply too damned expensive and impractical. Even rental turned out to be too much to ask. What amazes me is that someone actually thought the idea made commercial sense!
I was a crew chief on UH! Helicopters. You would need to start thr pre flight a week before taking off! I guess pilots worked in those days lol
The Army is the very best in making very, very boring training videos. Whenever they turned on the "sleep machine" ALA (the projector) we knew we were in for a sleepy presentation. They even managed to make the Cobra training video boring! LOL
18:26 Tom Hanks piloting
The pilot is CWO Jack W McKeever. He’s also my dad 😎
@@stephaniebennett298 😯👏👍✨
YEeHaW, God bless America!
too many ads for an old training vid cant see watching anymore bye
we call the h-21 the flying banana
DO THEY HAVE AUTO PILOT ?
No, not in this model or any others of that time.
This model was not a lot of fun to fly, the throttle return spring was quite stiff and it had a bad habit of going into ground resonance at the slightest excuse...Other than that it was fine for the era it was used...
"it had a bad habit of going into ground resonance at the slightest excuse" ... I'm wondering if you can catch a hint of that in the film. Around 20:56 I saw some ground wobble that looked like a bit of resonance was starting to develop until he damped it down.
@@colindhowell Could be, this model was always doing that.
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good fly bird
Kinda looks like Rucker.
in museum