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  • This is what will happen when you play dubstep in helicopter

  • Make no wonder it tore apart, it was tethered to the ground.

  • Fuckin scary

  • You can see cutting power did not help, best thing is to add power and lift off the ground ASAP.

  • Ok ready for takeoff

  • sweet i think it is ready for c5 transport

  • Looks like Jelly at the end! 'I'll take the bus'

  • Holy $**t ! It busted !

  • looks like someones having a good time.

  • Did anyone check the air in the tires? Headlight fluid?

  • If THIS COPTERS A-ROCKIN', DON'T BOTHER KNOCKIN'! YEAH BABY, YEAH! :-D

  • may rofl copter goes s... lemme out!! lemme out!! lemme out!! lemme out!! O___O

  • If the copter is a rockin' don't come a knockin' !!!!!!!!!

  • Alright...PTU's off after rotors stop turning......check. Great, let's go get lunch.

  • urmmm..... i think its a bit broken.

  • well...that got fairly trashed

  • I feel sorry for the 3 people who were on board this helicopter. RIP

  • O Jesus, son of Mary! Is thy Lord able to send down for us a table spread with food from heaven

  • resonance - it will fuck your shit up!

  • does anybody know what gpg and jay are talking about.

  • Scoop it up and put it on Craigslist. Somebody will buy it. ;-)

  • lol shaking around much.

  • Bailing wire and duct tape .....

  • A lil bit of bondo and paint...that will buff right out

  • SHAKE THAT ASS BITCH!

  • jajaja i was thinking the same shit @BlakMastachief

  • Fookin' 'ell...

  • That will buff out...

  • shake shake, shake shake oh shake yeah !

  • This is why proper maintenance is so important!

  • @USArmy15U yeah and a proper pre-flight is essential as well...as my crew found out in Salerno Asscrackistan....

  • @jaymzedge1 Wow, Salerno has a LZ? It's been almost 9 years since i was last in that shit hole.

  • @gpgab971 Yup it sure does...even a limestone strip...Hercy Birds come in now and then too. nothing much bigger though. There are pads for a for a few helicopters..not too bad of an area now....as long as scirmishes with indiginous personel remain at minimums lol

  • @jaymzedge1 Thats nuts, i remember waking up in a dirt field every morning and filling Hesco barriers for months. There a was a main building and a small Hajji mart but that was it. Do they still sell Spider monkeys for $20?

  • @gpgab971 was only there for a couple weeks flying missions...didnt get alot of sight seeing in from the ground lol...though I did hear about it never actually saw them.

  • @jaymzedge1 Guys bought up monkeys and shit started disappearing. Found out later the monkeys would grab anything they could and run back to their rightfull owners so that the Haji mart could resell you your stuff. Not cheap stuff either, i've seen a private getting smoked for having to "buy" back his molle assault ruck and night vision. Bastards! But i must say i do kinda miss the piss tubes facing eachother in front of the chow tent. Classic.

  • @USArmy15U I agree

  • its great fun seeing a machine dismantle itself so spectacularly knowing that no one was in any danger!

  • this is not funny its a nice heli!

  • alright! who's payin' for this fiasco?

  • @amartinjoe The citizens of USA

  • looks like a frong that has rabid aids or somethign... but seriously. whats the test for?? and how the hell did that happin?

  • she can still fly

  • Looks like my Century Swift 16 RC Heli. It does this on every spool-down - despite dozens of hours meticulously balancing, adjusting, greasing and replacing every part in sight.

  • What is that helicopter made of?

  • I thought that flying apart was a feature that came standard on all helicopters.

    We fast movers used to call them "a bunch of loose parts flying in close formation".

  • Very impressive!

  • I think the reason this Acft was selected for this test was due to an incident that occured in 1998. The AFCS malfunctioned and caused one of the Integrated Linear Control Actuator extensible links to actuate which caused the Acft to do a 360 degree roll about its longitudinal axis. The Acft recovered and landed safely. The roll however, overstressed the airframe. They were unable to duplicate the problem w/ the AFCS. So this was how they "put her down" I know I would'nt want to fly in it.

  • @uh60ch47chief Do a barrel roll!

  • I DON'T KNOW WHAT I'VE BEEN TOLD, BUT ALL I KNOW THAT HELICOPTERS GONNA EXPLODE!

    Sound off. fall apart!

    That was a fun $2,600,000 LETS DO IT AGAIN!

  • made in china

  • ITS A FACE!

  • that was awesome

  • This isn't a test gone wrong. It was a test to distruction showing what happens when you don't take into account the effects of resonance.

    Here, the rotors were made to spin at a certain frequency, the 'resonant frequency' of the air frame, causing vibrations to build up, each time getting larger and larger until the airframe eventually fails and the aircraft falls apart.

    Just a bit of info for anyone who's interested :)

  • you know what happen if u put 2 frequency on a vibrating spheare with all the materia that exist(just need a few if u want but u have to had all the materia that is in the universe) and try to find the perfect simbiosis on the materia with some temperature. i cant do that in my home lol the question is who can?

  • @CaptianB

    So all you have to do is set the throttle for a certain speed and the thing will come apart? That is scary!

  • no, ground resonance is the result of ground contact at a specific point in a rotor heads rotation, this can a dyssymetry of resonance in the rotor heads of a tandem rotor or fully articulating single rotor helo's. All helo pilots are taught to lift off the ground to cure the problem, if you don't then, well, you can see the destruction in the video.

  • @CaptainBaxter egr Mechanical Vibrations ftw!!

  • @CaptainBaxter

    Not to mention this can happen if the tires are not inflated to the correct PSI.

  • @CaptainBaxter  it seems to me this test shows how cheap and easily it falls a part.....PAPER!

  • @THUSxFAR No your wrong, sorry. Captain Baxter is correct. This is a resonance test. All materials have a natural frequency that they like in lack of better terms to oscillate at. If you don't test or take that into consideration you will have this. This effect can be seen with breaking glass with sound or the Tacoma Narrows Bridge incident.

  • @CaptainBaxter U Sure it's got nothing to do with the lead/lag dampers on the articulated rotor head dampening each blade???? usually when one of those go you only find out when you come in to land. yes proper maint is crucial.

    Got nothing to do with the freq of the spinning blades v's airframe. that's from a Heli Mech.

  • lol "made in china?"

  • Hahahaha Made In China is exactly what I thought of.

  • Weah make wif da bess quahtee. lol

  • lol @ the roflcopter

  • I've flown in one of these.. it feels like its gonna fall apart but it is actually incredibly safe.

  • Ok, i'm not flaying anymore :D

  • Correction: I'm not flying IN A TIED DOWN AIRCRAFT anymore... lol. BTW i'm not complaining at you i'm just adding a little light to the situation...

  • what is ground resonance exactly? i dont understand

  • It's a lot to explain..but I will try. fully articulating rotor systems allow each blade to individually lead, lag, or flap (just a little) to help with vibration and other aerodynamic factors associated with a helicopter. All this movement causes similar but different vibration freq's through the airframe(known as sympathetic resonance) when the Acft is on ground and the struts are not serviced properly to absorb all these vibe freq's they "sing" and the end result is what you see in the video.

  • The tail number of the aircraft in this video is 84-24156. I was assigned to it as a brand new crew chief in 1989-1990. At the time this video was made, 156 was at Aberdeen Proving Grounds being used for ballistics testing. Ground resonance, an unfortunate drawback of articulated rotor systems such as the chinook's, is cited as the reason the aircraft ate itself. Google "D Model Chinook" to read an article about this aircraft rolling inverted in flight.

  • SOUND OFF CREW DOG!!!!! GOOD WORK. We looked forward to seeing you guys in Dahairan Sudia. USAF (retired)

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  • ilovecheesypizza its actually something called ground resonance they were testing with a scrapped chinook meaning they were throwing it out anyways. its caused when a mechanism in the hub called a damper is broken and the lead and lag of the helicopter rotor spinning causes the blades to bunch up on one side creating that major vibration

  • This explains why we're always short of CH-47s in Pacmanistan. They're shaking them to pieces!

  • Gotta love how the first rotor is still spinning at the end...

  • rubber chinook

  • The oscillations caused by the operating frequency of the rotors is similar to its natural frequency, thus you get maximum amplitude of oscillations. In this instance they are too big and it tears apart the helicopter.

  • well we learn one thing from this.... a chinook helicopter cannot move the earth

  • damn gravity always screws it up

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  • haha looks like it

  • It's a test, it's the same Chinook as you would see flying, it's the forces that are applied to the chopper through the occurrence of ground resonance that make the Chinook appear as if it was constructed of cardboard :)

  • wtf? of course not stupid! when the chinook is in the air, it moves around a bit, but we dont notice. since it's not going anywhere and it's still pushing air down and spinning, it can't move around like it does in the air, AND it's tied down. the back on wobbled, weakened it, and it broke. like if you bend a paperclip too many times with the same movement. it gets weak and breaks.

  • to clear this up, the chinooks wheel struts are charged with nitrogen, and are hydraulicly controlled to balance out the helo with weight shifts. there is a similar counter balance system in the rotor heads. in this test, they put in an input that would be forcefully counteracted by the counter balance systems, therefore causing the helo to sway side to side as it tries harder and harder to correct itself, which it cant because being strapped down, it is only fighting itself.

  • they need to put a pulse wave arestor with

    a cap shock liner line b-type spot check.

    that should keep the shaking down

  • lmao

  • They have gearbox as well as rotor test stands at the factory. You pass by them when you go by the Boeing factory.  I guess they wanted to see the totall effect on an airframe.

  • result: the effect is pretty awesome

  • 70% of people doesn't know what resonance is...

  • I do... Resonance is the the part of your joint that appears to turn to liquid when you take a big toke off of it. I must be the other 30%.

  • ерунда!!!

  • DAYUM! That sucks! Well, that chinook's useless now...

  • ehh,put some new spark plugs in there ,she'll run fine

  • Nah I think she just needs an oil change.

  • I FINK YA GEARBOX FELL OFF!

  • Do you not mean: I think that your gearbox has fallen off?

  • nice vid illustrating resonance... its for this same reason that an opera singer can produce a note a note that would make a wine goblet rip itself apart... i think i'll watch it again lol

  • "When the chopper's a-rockin', don't come a-knockin'!"

  • Jelly Chinook :D

  • listen here genious'. I am a ft. rucker pilot. I have flown the shithook but am specialized in the blackhawk. They do this because they have excess used Chinooks and they want to see what happens with the insane amount of power a chinook has when lifting a large load as it does for a while. There it is the correct answer. Now all you guys can quite bickering like kids. any more brain-busters just ask.

  • If this is a result of excess power being applied whilst tethered, why is there almost no coning angle on the blades?

    To the best of my knowledge ground resonance like this is the effect of harmonic frequencies. Each vibration comes in time with the one after, so that the cumulative effect gets worse and worse.

  • I am glad you're a pilot, but I worked in Static Test/Flight Test for Kaman for 11 years, and this video is almost identical to ground resonance tests for the SH-2's. I wont doubt they tried a max-Q test and this happened, but it would be easier to believe this is a power test of the blades were swooping upward instead of level flight.

  • ak5286 u got to watch what your saying in an American language on a American web sight

  • y?.

  • I learned this on my Rotary course....but Wiki says it too easy compared to what i could say:

    Ground resonance, in fully articulated multi-bladed helicopters, is a hazardous condition during touchdown or at other times when the helicopter is running while sitting on the ground. A series of shocks to the landing gear can pass through to the rotor disk and cause an imbalance in the rotor system.

  • ever think of turning off the engines? hahaha

  • it looks like it has been on an epesode of pimp my ride the way it is bowncing around lol

  • someone had their laundry in unbalanced

  • You are a fucking idiot. It is an engineering test.

    Why do fucking idiots like yourself even bother opening your mouth? If you don't know what you are talking about then just shut the fuck up.

    You get the douche bag of the day award.

  • yeh im with him

  • didn't know american cars could fly. ;P

  • The chinook is a Canadian design

  • woooow the chinook is a Canadian design? Then why does an American company (Boeing) produce and modify them. And I agree with Porkchop...you're all fucking retards, its a test to check the balances on the blades.

  • They balance the blades in the whirl towers. We build and balance our own blades in house, and we do a damn fine job of it at that. That's one of the selling points of the Chinook. This has nothing to do with balancing the blades. It wasn't like they said "hey let's strap on a set of blades and see if they're balanced," thus sacrificing an entire airframe as a result.

  • No one should " fly " with American built cars. Or foreign cars for that matter.

  • Fail

  • talk about shaking it

  • they did this video to basically show what happens when a repair it not done correctly from what I can tell more or less

  • How do you come to that conclusion?

  • which comment are you refuring too

    soupisgoodfood42?

  • Your one right below me. No idea why YouTube still can't get comment replies right.

  • hi soupisgoodfood42

    oh..ok I know which one now that was supposed to be a funny comment like on that movie with the police car tied to a pole and it pulled the axle out the one above you meant the engine was not properly repaired and it causes engine failer as for youtube I don't know either

    stupid ain't it

  • well I could add a funny comment to this video that would be.............ok...who's the wise guy that chained the wheel down...... ha ha ha ha

  • Fly it off

  • bit of duct tape will fix that.

  • does anyone know the real story behind this?

    yes it was a test and yes they knew what was going to happen. but i don't think they were expecting catasrophic failure...

    i know cars are crashed tested (heli's too) but thats usually in the normal (more common) horizontal flight with speed scenario (to get an idea of structure failure).

    this seems like a very unlikely mode of failure to have a very expensive test done.

    comeone, how many times is the heli going to crash like that.....

  • I don't have a good reference to point you to but I'll tell you what I recall. I am probably wrong on something.

    This is a likely mode of failure for helis on the ground (if it starts to happen, LIFT OFF IMMEDIATELY).

    The engineers were expecting catastrophic failure, but they wanted to measure exactly when and at what loads that would occur.

    This airframe was already declared unsafe to fly due to an earlier incident and was to be scrapped anyway, so they used it in this destructive test.

  • @singedrac huh interesting

  • Sex in there? Imagin!

  • Lol... ^_^

  • bit of duct tape will fix that.

  • i guess someone forget to tighten a bolt!

  • "get a room" "were already in one....SHIT!!!"

  • A couple was fucking inside which got the rhythmical motion started.

  • whoa there must be an orgy in that helicopter

  • It's a ground resonance test, as the title said, meant to push the helicopter to the limit to see how much it can take.

  • If the choppers a rockin, dont come a knockin.............

  • omg

  • Not all things 'look nice' to do their job well, I point you to the A-10. It may look ugly but it's one of the best of its kind. As is the Chinook. Holds alot, well armoured for a chopper and very strategic to use.

  • High-five that. And what's with this "looks gay" thing? It doesn't look homosexual at all. In fact, I think it looks quite beastly.

  • I bet you're a stupid kid who makes annoying noises and looks gay.

  • Aaaand I bet you're a stupid kid that'd be too afraid to admit it :)

    How much are you willing to bet :D

  • shut up skwisgar

  • looks like a frog with a propel on its headXD

  • Speedtape, that what you need. It'll do a trip!

  • Speedtape, that's what you need. It'll do a trip!

  • yeah because you guys probably dont test your shit out like we do, we care about our crewmen, and troops, if your saying that you dont test any of your shit then you are correct your small country is shit, you fail.

  • Man, did you see how much the rotor blades went out of phase?! I've encountered G.Res a few times and it was corrected within a second or two by lifting up to a hover...which loads the disk and then brings the blades back into phase with each other.

  • O O 0

    ITS MAKING A FACE

  • THE VIDEO IS NOT WORKING.

  • if that's not a model, can models be affected by ground resonance?

  • poor chopper

  • what is this?

  • The correct procedure when ground resonance begins is to lift the wheels off the ground.If you can`t thats what happens!

  • The Tacoma Narrows Bridge also fell apart because of resonance

  • The problem is the helicopter is grounded and the rotors are rotating at the frequency of the helicopter (yes everything has a resonant frequency). The ground is simply acting as a system for dampening the effects of the helicopter blade rotation. However the energy generated with the rotor blades becomes too great and the copter just falls apart

  • lol it looked like the helicopter was made of yellow foam

  • Houston, we have a problem !

  • I think one rotor failed at the head and caused a severe balance problem

  • that thing looks like it is made of foam

  • Your tax dollars hard at work.

  • Indeed. Sort like how your car insurance money. When it's not being spent on stupid people, it's used to buy nice shiny new cars, like Corvettes, Acuras, and Caddys. Those shiny, expensive cars are then crashed into walls at 40 Miles and Hour. It's called engineering you fucker, and you should be old enough to know that.

  • Ok first off, I spent wasted time finding what I actually said. Then I realised that it wasn't worth it to debate you because I'm tired. So I'm just going to point out the fact that it took you more than two months respond with that weak ass comeback. TWO MONTHS? If I recall, you're like 50 years old, and apparently, very daft. When they perform these tests, they push them to the max. This would happen to any aircraft, American or not. So pull your head outta your ass. It was supposed to fail.

  • mgo i have a life, and it's not spent glued to youtube, so if you're l(.)(.)king for prompt replies, please don't hold your breath. yes, i'm over 50, and damn proud of it. how old are you, 12 perhaps? or is that your i.q.? i still say, the test was a waste of time and my hard earned tax dollars.