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