The engine is an 1820 single Wasp. The turbine engine was as big an improvement for the helicopter as it was for the fixed wing. The recips were the thunder, but the turbines are the lightening.
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hydraulic clutch that is engaged by an electric pump. After the main rotor speed reaches around 100 rpm centrifugal force inside clutch maintains engagement, and the electric pump is turned off. Procedure is to role the throttle off after turning the pump off to split the needles and ensure engine disengagement for autorotation. Then the engine speed has to be brought back up before the rpm falls below 100 to keep the clutch engaged.
I flew in 34's at Santa Ana and in HMM-362 in Vietnam out of Phu Bai and off the USS OKINAWA. The gas turbines in the 46's I flew in afterwards just doesn't have quite the same magical sound.
.058 is when they lower the engine rpm and the internal roller clutch hooks up solid as the motor speeds back up. It is called marrying the needles. Awesome bird. I miss the old girls.
is the rotor driven by a transmission? sounded like it went through first gear, then @ 0:58 sounded like it went into a 2nd gear. or is it driven by hydraulic? or direct drive to the engine?
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THE ENGINE IS A RADIAL ENGINE MOUNTED IN THE NOSE OF THE HELICOPTER. THE DRIVE SHAFT FROM THE ENGINE IS MOUNTED AT AN UPWARD ANGLE, BETWEEN THE PILOT/CO-PILOT UNDER A CONSOLE IN THE COCKPIT, TO THE GEARBOX JUST BEHIND THE COCKPIT. WHAT A NICE CLASSIC SOUND.
@typedbyben sorry...I meant it to be a compliment to the mighty sikorsky engine. Even the spitfire coughed and spluttered until they run like a dream. (Also applies to the 7.2 litre dodge engine :)) and even the dodge is as rare as hens teeth to find in good condition.
@typedbyben some from August 1970 onwards - experimental injection (prior to the release of the 500ci in early '71) and they just sounded like the sikovsky. All chargers spluttered and coughed anyway when starting. Engines prone to flooding. yes the 69 chargers ARE carbs...apologies.
That engine is a 1525 Hp Wright 1820 9 Cylinder Radial Engine with 1823 Cubic Inches. This engine (in a smaller displacement) powered the B-17 Flying Fortress. The gross weight of this helicopter is 14,000 pounds and this monster motor can lift it easily. IT IS A TRUE BEAST!
@FSXWLFS oh ok, thanks for explaining. Dumb question but, why dont all helicopters have pistons? I just thought all engines needed them to produce compression to allow the engine to run.
@arohn2007 That is because not all helicopters have piston engines. A lot of helicopters have turboshaft engines. It is kind of like a jet engine connected to the rotors.
@makeminealarge1 The description saids its still used in air shows and at schools, so it probably does. It starts and both rotors turn, so thats a good sign
@Briar5559 Russian? Igor Sikorsky has been building American aircraft and helicopters sind the 1920s. The UH-34 was a hell of a bird and could absorb ground fire like a sponge.
Unless this bird was completely replaced, it was later YL7 when they lowered the numbers by 30 digits. If so, this is the plane that I did my first month as gunner, Nov 68.
Yes, these planes are "ugly," except not for the guys on the ground wating for one to come take them to a hospital to get patched up, then we were Ugly Angels.
@cuzzythewolf2 ahhhh..... beauty is in the eye of the beholder... no? I love them... worked on the turbine version of these aircraft in Canada for many years fighting forest fires and helilogging. Sikorsky sure knew how to build an aircraft. Thanks for the description of the startup. Despite working alongside a round motor version of the machine I never knew about the clutch arrangement. Very interesting. Nice post thanks!!
@shovel20 You are wrong. The Huey began life with the Lycoming T53-L7 turbine engine. The version I flew in Viet Nam (the UH-1H) was powered by the T53-L13, which had 1450 shaft horsepower, or about twice that of the original A-model Huey.
@MyDanGreen Okay hahaha well that settles it! Respect to you for your Vietnam service! Yeah I just remember someone telling me that and i said that off the top of my head I really should have known that considering I love Huey helicopters so much. Feel like an idiot! But why was the reason they stopped using pistons for helicopters?
A piece of Marine history. Take good care of her. Thanks for posting. I flew in the Phrogs that replaced this fine bird. Alas, they are now history as well. All good things come to an end I guess...
This is the famous "Get Some" helicopter from Full Metal Jacket, however the film crews only had the RAF turbine powered versions. Our US troops were riding around in these radial badboys, in real life.
Some collector had four or five of these in a salvage yard next to Planes of Fame in Chino, CA.I had a chance to climb into one...they were beyond repair and were being picked clean for parts.I got bit by a black widow spider while looking around in the pilots seat.I heard they took the engine out of one of theses and put it into a Sherman tank ....it ran believe it or not.
@Afrocanuk All Utility Helicopters have the UH designation. Before the Navy/Marines/Army/Air Force all got together in the early 60s and adopted the same conventions, Navy/Marine helicopters were "HU" (Helicopter, Utility). This is how the Huey became the Huey: HU-1E, the Marine version of the Army UH-1.
gorgeous! great splutter of the radial motor, although it drowns out the 'swooosh' of the rotor blades cuttin' the air. still, i'd like to see the old birds flying.
@hudson501 Actually, yes. Being a 9-cyl radial engine, it's 4 1/2 Harleys. A Harley is a 2-cyl radial engine. I think these are 1820c.i, so that'd be about 450c.i. per 2-cyl Harley, and 225c.i. for the 1-cyl.!
@hudson501 I have never EVER, heard a Hardley sound anywhere near this good. And believe me, I would know. I have to listen to you weekend "bikers" reving your technilogically inadvanced POS at every damn red light you come up to. WHEEEE!! Fags...
Cool your jets 231mac! I certainly know the sound of a Sikorsky S-58 or if you will, H-34. I grew up very close to Chicago's O'Hare Field in the early 1960's and use to routinely hear Chicago Helicopters Airways' S-58's flying from O'Hare to Midway and back. I just made the Harley comparison to help illustrate the tremendous sound ONE of these helicopters made. One last thing, I don't have a motorcycle. Never did. Instead, I have a 1950 Hudson Pacemaker sedan.
A lot of these birds flew thousands of missions for the Marines during the Vietnam War and most were outfitted with the radial Lycoming engine rather than a turbine engine. They sounded like an old Chrysler at start up and looked like a locust. But they were pretty dependable just slow and obviously a good target for a B-40 rocket. Incidently, in the scene in "Full Metal Jacket" when Matthew Modine is flying in the H-34, the scene showes a shadow of the helicopter flying over the tree tops.
I had no idea that the UH-34 was powered by a radial piston engine until I looked it up just now. I had always thought they were turbine powered!
cashmab 3 days ago
@cashmab Its got the same type of engine that powered the B-17 the SBD, the T-28 Trojan The S-2 Tracker and the FM-2 Wildcat
SgtGrant23 2 days ago
super dźwięk silnika
tszczable 3 days ago
There this start up and then...the Airwolf start up
saquist 5 days ago
HOLY HELL that's awesome!
Grumpy7783 1 month ago
Maybe the most nice looking helicopter
espectro2n 1 month ago
This makes a big block Chevy sound like a lawn mower.
BeechKingAir350 1 month ago 2
I call this helicopter a grasshopper.
levelat350 1 month ago
The engine is an 1820 single Wasp. The turbine engine was as big an improvement for the helicopter as it was for the fixed wing. The recips were the thunder, but the turbines are the lightening.
pooch034 2 months ago
sounds like a diesel tracktor.. :)
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nickypixydude 2 months ago
What airfield in Inola, OK does this take place?
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hydraulic clutch that is engaged by an electric pump. After the main rotor speed reaches around 100 rpm centrifugal force inside clutch maintains engagement, and the electric pump is turned off. Procedure is to role the throttle off after turning the pump off to split the needles and ensure engine disengagement for autorotation. Then the engine speed has to be brought back up before the rpm falls below 100 to keep the clutch engaged.
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Crashbandicout 3 months ago
it uses piston engine, i was expecting to hear an turboshaft engine
stealhty1 3 months ago
OMG that sounds good... great video!
daywalker750 3 months ago
I flew in 34's at Santa Ana and in HMM-362 in Vietnam out of Phu Bai and off the USS OKINAWA. The gas turbines in the 46's I flew in afterwards just doesn't have quite the same magical sound.
pir8hntr 3 months ago
do they switch to a higher gear at 00:57?
crazyrum 4 months ago
I have flown that particular helicopter when I was in HMM 362. You should hear 20 of them starting.
pooch034 4 months ago 12
@pooch034 What a racket that must have been.
RastaSaiyaman 2 months ago
....oh....and by the way....sounds like the pilot left a turn signal on in the beginning of the vid! hahahaha
dshmechanic 4 months ago
ok.....gotta tell ya....not at all what I expected in the sound department! LOL
dshmechanic 4 months ago
I just decided that's it's going to be my goal in life to fly one of these at some point.
Tjita1 5 months ago
Full Metal Jacket!
(Yes, I know the 34's in the film were turbine powered.)
torukmakto4 5 months ago
@torukmakto4 Good eye (about the turbines). Now I can't see an H-34 without getting "Surfing Bird" by the Trashmen stuck in my head. :-)
Jer64ss 4 months ago
.058 is when they lower the engine rpm and the internal roller clutch hooks up solid as the motor speeds back up. It is called marrying the needles. Awesome bird. I miss the old girls.
syzfilms 5 months ago
도라꾸여 헬기여...?
dbrqhdakdhkd 5 months ago
is the engine in there an R-2800 double wasp?
RJfan 5 months ago
scratch that, it's an R-1820. still, gotta love radials
RJfan 5 months ago
@RJfan I agree. Nothing quite beats the sound of a radial.
RandomPerson8492 4 months ago
i fell bad for the Marines when they flew these sounds like a 57' Chevy when they start this thing XD
Griffmeister423 5 months ago
Piston engine
HYPNOTICVIDEO 5 months ago
scary sound.
Tango1nz 6 months ago
is the rotor driven by a transmission? sounded like it went through first gear, then @ 0:58 sounded like it went into a 2nd gear. or is it driven by hydraulic? or direct drive to the engine?
ilovegoatsecks 6 months ago
holy shit, that must be the most awesome engine sound ever!
douwethaman 6 months ago
..pump the gas three times and let go very sloooowly.
rockotto727 6 months ago
It sounds like a ´57 Chevy. Great!
CHEVROMAX 6 months ago 25
Great audio! And you got a bonus freight train at the beginning!
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wwwtotalitaerde 6 months ago
It basically sounds like a monster truck because i can tell by the heavy idling.
Mondscheinfpv 7 months ago
THE ENGINE IS A RADIAL ENGINE MOUNTED IN THE NOSE OF THE HELICOPTER. THE DRIVE SHAFT FROM THE ENGINE IS MOUNTED AT AN UPWARD ANGLE, BETWEEN THE PILOT/CO-PILOT UNDER A CONSOLE IN THE COCKPIT, TO THE GEARBOX JUST BEHIND THE COCKPIT. WHAT A NICE CLASSIC SOUND.
bionictrucker1 7 months ago
thats awesome hearing a helicopter w a piston engine xD
Graywolf116 7 months ago
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Crashbandicout 7 months ago
Vietnam
SchniggiCommando8 7 months ago
Now that is a PISTON POUNDER.
motokid032 7 months ago
Jesus. Sounds like a '69 dodge charger with a poor fuel injector at start. Cough ! Splutter! No wonder thay ain't around anymore..
banditbronable 8 months ago
@banditbronable i wish i had more accounts so i could give this comment 4 thumbs down!
typedbyben 7 months ago
@typedbyben sorry...I meant it to be a compliment to the mighty sikorsky engine. Even the spitfire coughed and spluttered until they run like a dream. (Also applies to the 7.2 litre dodge engine :)) and even the dodge is as rare as hens teeth to find in good condition.
banditbronable 7 months ago
@banditbronable i mostly meant you wont find many (any?) '69 chargers with fuel injectors... they were carbureted from the factory.
typedbyben 7 months ago
@typedbyben some from August 1970 onwards - experimental injection (prior to the release of the 500ci in early '71) and they just sounded like the sikovsky. All chargers spluttered and coughed anyway when starting. Engines prone to flooding. yes the 69 chargers ARE carbs...apologies.
banditbronable 7 months ago
Sounds like crap. I like turbine choppers. Not that this is bad but I mean can you trust flying in it?
koolsk8ter111 8 months ago
@koolsk8ter111
Damn right you can trust flying in it. Simple, reliable, did a fine job hauling my ass around SEA.
C74534 7 months ago
So do these things have two gears then to get the blades up to speed?
ShokaLion 8 months ago
Ah, piston-powered helicopters.
RandomPerson8492 8 months ago
I want my motorcycle to sound like this
metaltera86 8 months ago
@metaltera86 put zoomie pipes on it, I think they make a similar sound
arohn2007 8 months ago
That engine is a 1525 Hp Wright 1820 9 Cylinder Radial Engine with 1823 Cubic Inches. This engine (in a smaller displacement) powered the B-17 Flying Fortress. The gross weight of this helicopter is 14,000 pounds and this monster motor can lift it easily. IT IS A TRUE BEAST!
AA6RH 8 months ago
@AA6RH it sounds like it uses a two stage gear system for the main rotor blades at 0:50
Mondscheinfpv 8 months ago
@AA6RH so what if someone put it in a car???
MegaXDXDXD1 8 months ago
@MegaXDXDXD1 I like the way you think!
AA6RH 8 months ago
sounds like my lawnmower , ive got a big lawn mower ! a really big lawnmower .
SIRSMITH08 8 months ago
CLASSIC!
ijjpfsx17 8 months ago
lmfa sound like my.. muscle shit car.. lmfao
tentsop 9 months ago
that big radial , the sound of freedom !!
bonzo874 9 months ago
Why don't the blades automatically start turning like in normal helicopters on start up?
arohn2007 9 months ago
You have to engage the rotor clutch on piston engined helis,
FSXWLFS 9 months ago
@FSXWLFS oh ok, thanks for explaining. Dumb question but, why dont all helicopters have pistons? I just thought all engines needed them to produce compression to allow the engine to run.
arohn2007 9 months ago
@arohn2007 That is because not all helicopters have piston engines. A lot of helicopters have turboshaft engines. It is kind of like a jet engine connected to the rotors.
FSXWLFS 9 months ago
@FSXWLFS I suppose those are the engines that make that "whine" when they are starting up?
arohn2007 9 months ago
@arohn2007 That's right
FSXWLFS 9 months ago
does the old banger still get off the ground?
makeminealarge1 9 months ago
@makeminealarge1 The description saids its still used in air shows and at schools, so it probably does. It starts and both rotors turn, so thats a good sign
arohn2007 9 months ago
theres a heli you could depend on
survas19 10 months ago
Thanks for a trip back down memory lane! Been shot down twice in H-34s! What a ride!
ChamberDoc 11 months ago
Russian piece of shit!
Briar5559 11 months ago
@Briar5559 Russian? Igor Sikorsky has been building American aircraft and helicopters sind the 1920s. The UH-34 was a hell of a bird and could absorb ground fire like a sponge.
ChamberDoc 11 months ago
@Briar5559 Nice to see the education system is working so well. That is a American helicopter NOT a Russian one.
Shakermt 10 months ago
@Shakermt Yeah smartass go fuck yourself.
Briar5559 10 months ago
@Briar5559
See liberal education at it's finest :) have a nice day.
Shakermt 10 months ago
WTF, Can't you record MORE than a minute you ass?
USMC3531tsd 11 months ago
@USMC3531tsd Dude relax man this is an amazing video if you dont like it then dont watch it
SgtGrant23 11 months ago
sounds like a train ;)
erelaxx 11 months ago
The only thing better than a radial engine is an helicopter with a radial engine!
DDySkO 1 year ago
The damm thing ant frikin pink....sounds like a built 454....but has a set.....
twobazzar 1 year ago
@twobazzar I actually thought it sounded like an old, big block buick with side pipes. Sounds cool.
TheSovietSteel 11 months ago
Nice video. Could you please correct the spelling of "Sikorsky"?
kinner111 1 year ago
Turbines are for the feeble. Can't beat a round engine.
Concordski101 1 year ago
Just seems so strange when all you have ever known is turbine helicopters.The roter acceleration was so quick!
xfire7 1 year ago
Sounds friggin awesome
motorcopjoe 1 year ago
radials kick ass !
decoysk 1 year ago
Sounds more like a truck with a flowmaster
sLiChEs13 1 year ago
HOLY SHIT.. I never heard a sound that beautiful...
JayJay1990fromwiehl 1 year ago
Surfin' Bird, Schmidt
fidoshark 1 year ago
@fidoshark indeed, haha
Schmidt1942 1 year ago
IT SOUNDS/LOOKS LIKE THE P-51'S RETARDED BROTHER (named spinny)
muetter 1 year ago
It's like that scene from Full Metal Jacket... Papa-ooma-mow-mow, papa-ooma-mow-mow.
Schmidt1942 1 year ago
what weapons dose it have
ThePresD 1 year ago
Wicked vid... thanks for posting. Love the round motor sound!!
firestormft5313 1 year ago
Unless this bird was completely replaced, it was later YL7 when they lowered the numbers by 30 digits. If so, this is the plane that I did my first month as gunner, Nov 68.
Yes, these planes are "ugly," except not for the guys on the ground wating for one to come take them to a hospital to get patched up, then we were Ugly Angels.
yl3cc 1 year ago
H34 Marines I knew never called this bird "chopper." It was an "airplane" or "plane," or "bird."
It is not an R2800. The engine is a Wright R1820, 9 cyl. radial. same as the B17 bomber engines.
Hueys never had recip. engines, unless there was a prototype nobody ever mentioned.
UH is Marine Air lingo for "Utility Helicopter."
yl3cc 1 year ago
when it was cranking up it sounded like my dads 1973 massey ferguson tractor!
tetramoo 1 year ago
what kind of a start up was that?
Phantasmos 1 year ago
sounds like my granpas truck
ALLERTORLOVER69 1 year ago 14
@ALLERTORLOVER69 #LOL
IwAtChViDeOz44 7 months ago
@ALLERTORLOVER69
Your grand'pa as a truck with a Wright cyclone R1820-84 9 cylinder radial 1525HP engine: damn it, what a truck! :-)
oiseautempete 7 months ago
@oiseautempete yeah i wish it had a wright cyclone. itd go through the mud pretty sweet
ALLERTORLOVER69 7 months ago
@ALLERTORLOVER69 cuz its kinda the same engine
sunNbass 6 months ago
it looks ugly. sorry but thats how i see it
cuzzythewolf2 1 year ago
@cuzzythewolf2 ahhhh..... beauty is in the eye of the beholder... no? I love them... worked on the turbine version of these aircraft in Canada for many years fighting forest fires and helilogging. Sikorsky sure knew how to build an aircraft. Thanks for the description of the startup. Despite working alongside a round motor version of the machine I never knew about the clutch arrangement. Very interesting. Nice post thanks!!
firestormft5313 1 year ago
sounds like an f4 corsair with that radial, beautiful
himmler251 1 year ago
good gawd it sounds like a old farm truck . its cool though never got to c 1 on start up
73Shakes 1 year ago
sounded like a hunk of shit car trying to start then it turned into a rascar enging sound
pureGAGA 1 year ago
is this the Chocktow Model wayback during the Viet war?
markvinas31 1 year ago
or a giant lawnmower
DaveStarr4 1 year ago
sounds a littlebit like a ww2 zero engine sound :p probably also because of the engine type
dutchforces 1 year ago
@dutchforces Yeah; it's the same engine the Navy used in the T-28 fixed-wing trainer.
KutWrite 1 year ago
that is one beastly sounding Chopper.
Scioneer 1 year ago
Is that Joe Penny in there? Rip Tide!!!!!
CBKillas 1 year ago
What a Harley , Cadilac, Plymouth and Mustang in one chopper !!!
Kapustomyl 1 year ago
Wow hearing pistons in heli is amazing. The huey had piston engines but they are not as safe do they became turbine i heard.(correct me if i'm wrong)
shovel20 1 year ago
@shovel20 You are wrong. The Huey began life with the Lycoming T53-L7 turbine engine. The version I flew in Viet Nam (the UH-1H) was powered by the T53-L13, which had 1450 shaft horsepower, or about twice that of the original A-model Huey.
MyDanGreen 1 year ago
@MyDanGreen Okay hahaha well that settles it! Respect to you for your Vietnam service! Yeah I just remember someone telling me that and i said that off the top of my head I really should have known that considering I love Huey helicopters so much. Feel like an idiot! But why was the reason they stopped using pistons for helicopters?
shovel20 1 year ago
A piece of Marine history. Take good care of her. Thanks for posting. I flew in the Phrogs that replaced this fine bird. Alas, they are now history as well. All good things come to an end I guess...
SludgeSlinger 1 year ago
The starter sounded like it came off an old Chrysler Imperial....
schicktd 1 year ago
Urgh. That is the sickest sound I have heard for a while. Sick in the bad-ass way of course.
KingOfSchmucks 1 year ago
you have to be serious a piston engine
Avatar230594 1 year ago
sounds like a B 17 engine when it started up
myrandomspaces 1 year ago
7 or 9 cylinder?
bluehazer 1 year ago
This is the famous "Get Some" helicopter from Full Metal Jacket, however the film crews only had the RAF turbine powered versions. Our US troops were riding around in these radial badboys, in real life.
mpwelk 1 year ago
I had a lot of rides in this aircraft type when I was in the USMC in the early to mid 60's. Brought back a lot of memories. Thanks for posting!
shireguy1 1 year ago
Anyone who runs is a VC! Anyone who stands still is a well disciplined VC!
zbehlik5 1 year ago
Jeez, this sounds like Chitty Chitty Bang Bang!
mistofoles 1 year ago
sounds like my boat starting to me
cornholiohkw1 1 year ago
the sound its more like an old RV Van.... LOL
Raven00088888 1 year ago
sounded more like a VW bug than a helicopter when it started
Chamtechie 1 year ago
it sounds like a top fuel dragster when the engine first starts up.
JetFlyyer 1 year ago
Some collector had four or five of these in a salvage yard next to Planes of Fame in Chino, CA.I had a chance to climb into one...they were beyond repair and were being picked clean for parts.I got bit by a black widow spider while looking around in the pilots seat.I heard they took the engine out of one of theses and put it into a Sherman tank ....it ran believe it or not.
ColBuzby 1 year ago
I actually thought this was gonna drive away...it even sounds like gears changing...DWL.
Kronik2g2 1 year ago
That is one scary sounding machine!
JET997u 2 years ago
Look it's Chevy Camaro...
...no it's UH-34 starting up...
KraljLazar 2 years ago
you spelled utility wrong
PsuPepperoni 2 years ago
I'm pretty sure UH stands for "I dont know"
woodydog123 2 years ago
utilety helicopter
henkdecitroen13 2 years ago
@woodydog123
haha good one xD
Alex31121234 2 years ago
Sounds like a bloody car :D
SamEEE12 2 years ago 3
I thought it was only Bell that had the "UH" designation.
Afrocanuk 2 years ago
UH stands for utility helicopter
mattkreps123 2 years ago
@Afrocanuk
nah.....its a normal disignation for all of the US armed forces Utility choppers.....like the UH-60 Blackhawk.
6V92TA 2 years ago
@Afrocanuk All Utility Helicopters have the UH designation. Before the Navy/Marines/Army/Air Force all got together in the early 60s and adopted the same conventions, Navy/Marine helicopters were "HU" (Helicopter, Utility). This is how the Huey became the Huey: HU-1E, the Marine version of the Army UH-1.
MyDanGreen 1 year ago
gorgeous! great splutter of the radial motor, although it drowns out the 'swooosh' of the rotor blades cuttin' the air. still, i'd like to see the old birds flying.
laciudadelaluz 2 years ago
It sounds like the sucker has been shot a few times.
Dropshot004 2 years ago
sounds like a piston engined P-51 Mustang
markvinas31 2 years ago
@markvinas31 All P-51s are piston engined.
MyDanGreen 1 year ago
After 0:45 it sounds like a Fargo U-Haul truck entering the freeway onramp, and merging in with the traffic.
tobagotb10 2 years ago
That is awesome!! Great video :)
-cbarn360
cbarn360 2 years ago
Yeah it uses a radial engine! I think it sounds sweet!
dasadler123 2 years ago
Weiiiiird, I've never heard a piston engined helo.
decibully1984 2 years ago
Ever watched M*A*S*H?
mpwelk 2 years ago
Im in alton kansas north of you,
id like to come down there to fly in it if it was possible??
old recip choppers are really something,
I like them as much or more than warbirds,
Please get back to me if you want ok,
Edward,
kirkconway 2 years ago
The beautiful and unmistakeable sound of a radial!
kentuckywhisky 2 years ago 41
Sounds more like a group of Harleys!
hudson501 2 years ago 52
@hudson501 Actually, yes. Being a 9-cyl radial engine, it's 4 1/2 Harleys. A Harley is a 2-cyl radial engine. I think these are 1820c.i, so that'd be about 450c.i. per 2-cyl Harley, and 225c.i. for the 1-cyl.!
KutWrite 1 year ago
@hudson501 I have never EVER, heard a Hardley sound anywhere near this good. And believe me, I would know. I have to listen to you weekend "bikers" reving your technilogically inadvanced POS at every damn red light you come up to. WHEEEE!! Fags...
231mac 9 months ago
Cool your jets 231mac! I certainly know the sound of a Sikorsky S-58 or if you will, H-34. I grew up very close to Chicago's O'Hare Field in the early 1960's and use to routinely hear Chicago Helicopters Airways' S-58's flying from O'Hare to Midway and back. I just made the Harley comparison to help illustrate the tremendous sound ONE of these helicopters made. One last thing, I don't have a motorcycle. Never did. Instead, I have a 1950 Hudson Pacemaker sedan.
hudson501 9 months ago
sounds like a volkswagen.. hahaha
modeload 2 years ago
Hahahaha that's true, but it amazing this big machine man ;)
whipmanx3 2 years ago
what a wonderfull ole bird,i hope she s still flyin
1221nvg 2 years ago
hahaha its sounds like starting an old car you gotta jerk the key a little
willistonboys 2 years ago
That R-1820 Wright engine sounds INCREDIBLE. Like a bad ass big block v-8
mortdk 2 years ago 2
Holy shit! I never new these things had piston engines at first!
motokid032 2 years ago
same lol
arbitar222 2 years ago
same here
terraformer5 2 years ago
hence the absence of a turbine ;)
greatdaine 2 years ago 2
it´s very helicopter Sikorsky!!
=)
great sound!!
Pablo221sp 2 years ago
Taht's amazing! I thought the only versions of the 34 that still flew were the turbine ones! Sikorsky still makes parts for that one?
lst1195 2 years ago
A lot of these birds flew thousands of missions for the Marines during the Vietnam War and most were outfitted with the radial Lycoming engine rather than a turbine engine. They sounded like an old Chrysler at start up and looked like a locust. But they were pretty dependable just slow and obviously a good target for a B-40 rocket. Incidently, in the scene in "Full Metal Jacket" when Matthew Modine is flying in the H-34, the scene showes a shadow of the helicopter flying over the tree tops.
greg8698 2 years ago 2