helicopter McDonnell Douglas MD 500 E R 503 Autorotation

[catliftresearch]

wow, that was good!

[nzman101]

good old soviet helicopter in the background at the start :)

[lookin4nickname]

@nzman101 Mi-2 I guess

[necessaryevil101]

its a ladybug :)

[enotar56]

Ottimo atterraggio ,l' auto vicina è una fiat?

[FPVsean]

love the way the old cayuse was called the flying egg

[103dingdong]

lol, look at the mi2 in the back ground, when you compare them, you realize just how far aviation has come

[paulinsaopaulo]

@marv481 der der airworf wuz realz, wut yu realy thinks I means? stringfellow hawk iz my daddy. Dom Santini is really santa clauz.. But don't tell anyone on youtube and spoil my fun.

[gizmoshadow1978]

how mutch is one of these choppers?

[Volfinator]

@gizmoshadow1978  825,000ish

[motokid032]

Wow, dropped a whole 10Kts. with that flare.

[jasonbadler]

I love the sound of the MD.

[twobazzar]

FLAIR HARD,his baby....

[muhejminun]

Hello to everybody.

Sziasztok mindekinek.

I have flown MD500E the military one and we used to do the flare much more lower than this pilot does.

Its to much high and in the real case sure it will crash a little...

[FILTREP]

Why is it that people who film these autorotations are too dumb to ZOOM OUT so the viewer can see the helicopter's relative motion to the ground. When you are zoomed in all the time all you see is a helicopter flying ,,,not that it is autorotating!!!

[SheepJumpFish]

Stop whinning, tis still a good video

[Theros91]

I have never seen a person hold the collective like that at 0:46 ... and I think he could have slowed that autorotation down a lot more for the touch down, but I've only flow an R22, 44, and a 206 so I wouldn't know.

[Kevindavis08]

probably making sure he doesn't f'up the tail rotor on accident getting him fired

[crobe093]

looks to me like they are trying to simulate landing with no tail rotor. You have to hold around 40 knots on touchdown to keep the thing straight.

[hlomeli]

they are simulating landing with no engine... that is called an AUTOROTATION.

[elchinalex]

The pilot holds the collective like that because it has a governor so he doesn't need to twist the grip like most helicopters. :)

[cberau]

@elchinalex yeah you do, have to keep it rolled off

[elchinalex]

@cberau I don't get your answer? The chopper has a governor that controls the rpm, you can do the autorotation by lowering all the collective (not simulated) and just recover before landing, but this one seems real to me, so the pilot brought the engine to idle and did the full autorotation. I've flown this chopper, it goes down pretty quickly like 2200 ft/min in autorotation.

[hlomeli]

sorry bro, but the inertia on those blades are so low... you need to hold colective all the way down just to keep the RPMs.

[mattkreps123]

that is weird how is he supposed to actuate the throttle?

[bucknaked466f]

it has a governor.

[av8trbbv]

The pilot flared way to early. He wasn't quite in ground effect yet. That could have turned out alot worse, but he still had good head speed.. Luckily for him, and that pretty aircraft.

[aligerous]

There's more than one way to skin a cat. How early should we flare when trying to clear powerlines or a house or a bunch of 40 foot trees? It can be done and it can be practiced in training as can a myriad of other scenarios. Who knows what these guys were simulating or what their conditions were at the training site?

[DudasMiska]

Istenem de csodás ez a gyönyörü helikopter, föleg a hangja, mindig tudod a Balatonon ha jön, még látni se lehet de már a hangjárol tudod hogy ez az!

[LesKrap]

Gyönyörű, imádom ezt a gépet is.Köszi hogy felraktad ezt a vidit.

[BMXStatus302]

i love that sound the blades make when they are going supersonic! MD500's rock

[DudasMiska]

Helikopter blades cant reach the speed of sound otherwise they would destroy themselves :P the closest heli blade is the one on the British G Lynx but its blades dont reach mach one either but damn close...Without a doubt this helikopter rotor blade assembly makes the most sophisticated and awesome sound there is.

[jock150]

I thought no helicopter on the planet has blades that can go supersonic as the aerodynamics change completely?

[BMXStatus302]

im sorry to confuse you. no, no helicopter blades can go supersonic they just get very close to it.

[hlomeli]

you are correct. there's no helo in this planet that can handle supersonic speeds on its blades. They get close though...

[Volfinator]

@hlomeli No helicopter even REMOTELY comes close to supersonic flight.

[hlomeli]

@Volfinator you might have gotten the wrong idea... the helicopter cannot get close to the speed of sound, but the blades are moving close to that speed.

If you read my comment, it is only talking in regards to the ROTOR blades not the whole helicopter. :)

[paulinsaopaulo]

@Volfinator airwolf?

[marv481]

@paulinsaopaulo omg... did you mean the bell 222, the helicopter from this unrealistic TV series or was your comment only irony???

[fosterbt]

beautiful heli and auto. Do the 5 rotor blades on an MD500 help with autorotation?? (as compared to the more common case of 2 - 4 blades)

[DudasMiska]

Yes there is more surface area to help "cushion" the fall and as there are more blades there is more weight being flung around which creates a stronger force of inertia and thereby the blades can keep spinning for longer and faster really.

[motokid032]

MD500 is the best sounding Heli ever built.

[nipponhouseplayer]

Get your sixty knots with the blades on the horizon at sixty pull back and pull up to the yellow on torque and watch the climb out baby.

[codprawn]

A mate of mine has a Hughes 300 - he does an autorotation EVERY landing as the noise upsets his neighbours!!! If there was ever a problem it would be 2nd nature to him!!!

[capsaicinrain]

i would rather own one of the than a house

in fact i think ill live with my parents until im 40 just so i can own one of these

[DudasMiska]

LOL yea I wish I had one too, but I dont know about paying 5000 dollars per 100 hr inspection, and eventual engine overhaul costing thousands and thousands of dollars.

[motokid032]

Best sounding helicopter hands down.

McDonnell Douglas FTW!

[irrixirrix]

Great pilottt thats really amazing autooo :D