Brother flew in to Midland Texas today and captured these for me!  Isn't he a great brother?  I think so!

Check out the following link:

http://wfhelicopters.com/images/pdf/300c_techdata.pdf

I love looking at sales brochures for helicopters.  Cool stuff.  Maybe someday soon for real!

Mil Mi-35M Hind Helicopter Performance In Airshow

These helicopters are definitely shall we say 'distinct' looking in their bulbousness but are truly an aviation marvel.  Both troop carrier as well as attack helicopter they have served the Russian military quite well throughout time.  Check out this great air show footage of the massive Mil Mi-35 Hind attack helicopter.

One of my favorite shows to watch on television is Building Alaska.  One of my former flight instructors moved up there to work as a tour pilot transporting tourists to and from the glaciers.  He loved it so much he went back a second year even though most only do it once in order to get their turbine transition and log some hours in an ASTAR.  Well the new season of this show has one of the builders, an educated man, saying the word "helicockter".  I 've rewound the DVR three times.  His lips never touch to form the "P" sound.  He says it six more times in episode two.  How can an architect and engineer not know the word is helicoPter?  It was driving me nuts to the point I was yelling at the television.  I know I'm whacky but he's the second grown man on earth I've heard mispronounce the word helicoPter.  My brother and I were watching Comedy Central stand-up about a dozen years ago and a comedian stated that he lived in the bad portion of Chicago where the gangs shoot down "Heli-clocktas".  He kept saying it and we thought it must have been part of his act.  It wasn't - the comedian after him got up and said "the word is "heli-CoPTER"....that's my only thing to say today.  The world's greatest flying machine deserves the respect of getting her name correct. - Pete @helipadusa

You know how you never wanted a teacher in school to notice you and look directly at you....well you don't want the Apache pilot or gunner to look directly at you either.

Sikorsky Sea King: S-61 Take-Off / Fly-by / Sea Rescue / Departure! BEAU...

My flight instructor moved to Ireland and joined the Irish Coast Guard to fly these beasts.  He has sent me many a video soon to be posted.  When you're lost at sea there can't be a sweeter sound than the sound of a helicopters blade slap coming toward you to pluck you from the ocean.  These folks train long and hard and these Sikorsky helicopters are still in service around the world.  Watch and see why.  Check out our other HeliPadUSA videos for the Sikorsky series here: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL7NjlE6Cu7fxgn_S-j-Y_RDCWYOSWYOmV

Sikorsky S-58T Helicopter: Heavy Lift Helicopters in Long Line Action!

Check out these heavy lifters of yesteryear.  I grew up watching the 1980's show Riptide that featured one of these helicopters that they kindly referred to as "Screaming Mimi".  I remember at the time I found fascinating that a helicopter could be so tall as to need stairs to get in to it - a two story helicopter essentially.  When I moved to St. Louis Missouri I got to see one of these fly a few hangars down from our flight school at KSUS the Spirit of St. Louis airport in Chesterfield Missouri.  That company was Saint Louis Helicopters and they did heavy lift projects all around the Midwest with their Sikorsky S-58.  Our flight school owner got to ride with them on a project I believe.  Theirs was silver and so cool to watch fly.  Well enjoy this video as I doubt you will see these anywhere anymore as they are all going by the wayside due to maintenance and parts issues.  Saint Louis Helicopter as well as Summit's helicopter featured here are no longer in operation.  Summit kindly responded to my question on-line if theirs was still operational.  They have since moved on to the AS350's as well as a KMAX - see a KMAX here: https://youtu.be/quT1Jf7deAw  thank you for following our blog and our youtube channel!  More to come! - HeliPadUSA

Noise complaints about whirly-birds....

http://dfw.cbslocal.com/2017/05/10/citizens-organizing-helicopter-noise/

I have never understood the mindset of people that buy cheap property near an airport or aviation manufacturing facility and then later begin complaining about noise.  There is a reason the land was cheap folks!  Bell Helicopters would LOVE nothing more than to make silent machines - it would be wonderful for them and wonderful for us - but unless they are able to build and test their equipment PROGRESS can never come about.  As a helicopter pilot I see more and more people complaining about noise and see more and more airports incorporating noise abatement procedures.  I simply don't get it.  Aircraft create noise much like railroads and freeway systems.  Freeway noises are constant, trains and airplanes are temporary as they come and go.  The world without helicopters would be a miserable place and many more people would perish in an emergency.  Personally I'd love to live next to a heliport or airport - the noise doesn't bother me one iota.  I love the sound of blade slap - whup whup!

BK-117 Helicopter: Fast Approach Landing & Backward Take-off!!!

EC 145 Helicopter Field Departure in Italy

Italian countryside departure.

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