I flew the AH-1F Nam 1970 - 72, USAF 20th SOS, 27th SO Wing. Before that the UH-1H Gunship, others before and after in the Reserves. I still have a shit-eating grin whenever I see one. I'm 70 now.

@garmonsnellville3078

5 жыл бұрын

Thank you for your service !

@discofishing

5 жыл бұрын

AH-1F variant of the Cobra was not in service during Vietnam. It was the AH-1G. They also did not enter service with the USAF. UH-1H were NEVER gunships, you are thinking of other UH-1 variants. Have you ever heard of stolen valor?

@billyboblillybob344

5 жыл бұрын

@@discofishing This is definitely an AH-1S model and probably in the possession of a museum of sorts. The UH-1H was only a utility helicopter while the UH-1B was beefed up into what became the UH-1M or "Mike" model which was used as a gunship prior to the arrival of the AH-1G Cobras, if I have my history correct.

@pvosoccer1585

5 жыл бұрын

Thank you and thank many fellow servicemen who sacrifice so much to oppose the evil force of Maoism and communism for the ideals of Freedom and Liberty, in that old and ancient land of conflicts (VN.) Theories aside, I believed that everything happened had happened were due to the attempts of expansion of the China's influence and the 'invisible' forces that the Chinese could and had exerted. [I don't know how to spell 'sacrifice' correctly and so I googled it up.] sac·ri·fice /ˈsakrəˌfīs/ noun noun: sacrifice; plural noun: sacrifices 1. an act of slaughtering an animal or person or surrendering a possession as an offering to God or to a divine or supernatural figure. "they offer sacrifices to the spirits" synonyms: ritual slaughter, hecatomb, immolation, offering, oblation; More self-sacrifice, self-immolation NO! NOT this!! "initiation ceremonies include the sacrifice of animals" •an animal, person, or object offered in a sacrifice. synonyms: (votive) offering, gift, oblation, victim, burnt offering "Abraham set out to offer Isaac as a sacrifice" YES! YES!! •an act of giving up something valued for the sake of something else regarded as more important or worthy. "we must all be prepared to make sacrifices" synonyms: giving up, abandonment, surrender, foregoing, renouncing, renunciation, renouncement, forfeiture, loss, relinquishment, resignation, abdication, signing away, yielding, ceding, waiving "the agreement has been achieved without any sacrifice of sovereignty" [Snip the rest.]

@depaulafaverothyerry9460

4 жыл бұрын

@@garmonsnellville3078 thanks for your service, friend i would like to be an helicopter pilote

flew 'em both. the apache is your "go to war" weapon of choice. but the cobra was flat out fun to fly

@rueridge7597

5 жыл бұрын

joey madarieta I watched Apaches for 2 yrs in Afghanistan. No comparison. They are bad ass. But in their day these got the job done.

@billyboblillybob344

5 жыл бұрын

@@rueridge7597 Well the Apache advanced everything the Cobra introduced. This type of helicopter did not exist before the Cobra. That the Marines still use a version is testament to their quality design (even though they should also be using Apaches for the sake of saving 10s of millions of dollars by removing a disparate weapon system that does the same job).

@twocansams6335

Жыл бұрын

@@billyboblillybob344 Same reason why the marines don't use the blackhawk, it saves space on the LHD's and you can bring more with you.

@Critter145

9 ай бұрын

Awesome

@donnie6178

2 ай бұрын

How lucky and fortunate for you. The Cobra looks far more agile than the Apache.

The Bell AH-1 Cobra is a two-blade, single-engine attack helicopter manufactured by Bell Helicopter. It was developed using the engine, transmission and rotor system of the Bell UH-1 Iroquois. A member of the prolific Huey family, the AH-1 is also referred to as the HueyCobra or Snake

My favorite helicopter, loved working on the weapon system!!

Flew the g model in rvn with c/4/77 ARA out of Camp Evans 70-71. Great memories and nightmares from time to time. Love that sound and the aroma of JP4. Served the great men of 3rd Brigade 101st and 5th Group of CCN. Heroes all!

Love the sound of those blades

I use to work on the rotor system of the AH 1-J and S while I was at Ft Bragg in the late 70's, they were one bad ass bird.

In the late 1970s I was an armor crewman in the US Army stationed in Germany and twice a year we went to Grafenwohr Training Area for live fire exercises. One evening Range Control called cease fire on us tanks. We watched an old school Cobra heli proceed down range and let loose with the minigun! Since every 5th round was a tracer, it looked like a laser beam!! Quite the awesome sight!! It sounded like a sawmill in the distance!

@moonraker7774

2 ай бұрын

Been there done that ... 3/68 Armor Mannheim Germany 78-79

I have 1.0 in that a/c. Thank you for the sweet sweet memory!

I love that kid "I wanna see that again!"

Rule of thumb: Never... ever talk when a helicopter engine is starting up! Music to my ears; thanks for that! :)

"Outstanding!... get ya a case of beer for that one... "

And the latest iteration, the AH-1Z Viper, is a composite 4 blade, twin engine aircraft with advanced avionics. It has air to air/ air to ground capabilities and is equal to or superior to the AH64 Apache Long bow in every metric. What a heritage!

I hope we get the AH-1 playable in some form for DCS someday.

Fantastic recording- The sound alone great.Your Daum Othmar.

outstanding sound!!! bring tha noise!!!

That helicopter is awesome

@OUAAAAAAAA

4 жыл бұрын

Its a AH-1G or W idk

@nathangomes6196

3 жыл бұрын

robloxia BOI it’s a ah-1s

@homa3114

3 жыл бұрын

@@nathangomes6196 it is not kisara

@homa3114

3 жыл бұрын

@@nathangomes6196, or G, or F

Henry County! Used to park my Bell 47 there!

1:52 is the beginning to one of the best sounds ever!

@billyboblillybob344

5 жыл бұрын

@CryinBranston Two heavy ass rotor blades subduing the atmosphere.

@marksin515

5 жыл бұрын

@CryinBranston - rolling the throttle from starting position to full power. This one takes me back to my days flying these at Campbell, mid-80s, in the pre-Apache days.

@thunderjawsaiftheboss4517

3 жыл бұрын

Like a UH-10 Huey

That's a sweet sound!

The M134 Minigun is a 7.62×51mm NATO, six-barrel rotary machine gun with a high rate of fire which can also fire at a high sustained rate. It features Gatling-style rotating barrels with an external power source, normally an electric

The Bell AH-1 Cobra, a 52 year old design that still strikes fear in America's enemies!!!!!

@cup_and_cone

6 жыл бұрын

Unmistakable sound those rotors make.

@pheels

6 жыл бұрын

and still being produced by Americans enemies that used to be their friends ie Iran

@nemanjavujicic4784

5 жыл бұрын

Dude this thing need 5 mins to fly...What fear are you talking about?They are scared from apache not from this shit.

@mreconomist7550

5 жыл бұрын

53 years old now :D

@texasbeast239

3 жыл бұрын

@@nemanjavujicic4784 - It's not the takeoff that our enemies fear. It's the approach. And the flyover. And the departure. And if need be, the second pass...

I saw one just before I left Nam. It was in the hangar. Never worked on it. Kinda' like in my mind this one took me home to the USA .

Great job done 👍✅... my oldest best friend a Vietnam veteran who was a Corpsman then.later r Went to flight school and became a AH-1 cobra 🐍 pilot 🆒👍🐍

Awesome Brother! 😎

Those blades are *massive.*

The smell of the jet fuel wafting from the rotorwash makes ME feel warm n fuzzy

My dad was in the Vietnam War and Ihe said it was the most terrifying sound he ever heard

My first real MEDEVAC was covered by 2 Marine Corps Cobras. I will never forget that as long as I live.

Damm how i love helicopters and how i would like to fly them

The grandaddy of em all!

Invest in a wind sock/blimp on that mic and a tripod with a fluid-head. Thanks for sharing the video!

@rueridge7597

5 жыл бұрын

Hadrorex That's gay as shit.

Awesome

I drove a golf cart once. Awesome.

Glasses kept me from this dream

@raggednerf4139

2 жыл бұрын

Rip

I used to work on the armament. I wondered what caused the aggressive sound. I only noticed it on the cobra.

Observe that the AH-1 Cobra does not seem to sound "right" until after 2 minutes (2:00) in order to reach its takeoff conditions or to be 'airborne'.

Ive seen what they can do. You wouldnt beleave.

Awesome helicopter

0:27 *fortune and son intensifies*

Very nice helicopter similar with UH-1's sound.

@dicewizard3664

3 жыл бұрын

Well I does use the same engine

@francisconti9085

2 жыл бұрын

@@dicewizard3664 Yup, a Huey with slim tandem seating, nose turret, & stub wings that can carry a load that makes field artillery blush..

CPT. Wild Bill Kelso . Reporting for Duty . Hoorah !!!

You should see what they Can do. Ya wont beleave it. Never mind the Fire Power.

Did you know that the back rotors that make a heli turn spins faster

SNAKE!!!!!!!!!

mabuti ang bagay na iyan sana magpatuloy pa iyan gaya ng vietnam.

Is this the sky soilders AH-1 cobra out of Georgia

This bird is meaannnn !!!

Shell oil in the background how's that for some irony! My dad used to tell me stories about spotting Shell oil trucks deep in NVA territory refueling trucks hauling sams, they were rightfully lit up after being spotted, regardless of Johnson and McNamara but to this day I can't buy anything from a Shell station

Call me a geek, but... GI JOE DRAGONFLY!!!

the trees are speaking Vietnamese

Nice

We broke it in 95 its never gonna do shit

Beautiful. Who owns this thing?

@cup_and_cone

6 жыл бұрын

Army Aviation Heritage Foundation

Is it automatic or manual 😆

Here comes death

Stealth technology

Is this the AH-1F variant?

@billyboblillybob344

5 жыл бұрын

AH-1S

@francisconti9085

2 жыл бұрын

@@billyboblillybob344 *F variant is very closely related

O ya, starting to get Vietnam flashbacks

AH-1S

Eargasm anyone?!?

I can smell this video

Damn those things are quiet

@rueridge7597

5 жыл бұрын

HeyItsVos Huh?? Noisy as hell in person

@heyitsvos

5 жыл бұрын

@@rueridge7597 was referring to the blades subsonic sound compared to other choppers. Or the audio is just lacking

HueyCobra

I wish you could own these without the fbi beating down your door

@nocalsteve

10 ай бұрын

There’s one current for sale on Controller.

Ah-1s

That last maneuver towards the end can be deadly in a double bladed helicopter that uses a "teeter-totter" rotor head assembly--because at the apex of the climb, the chopper is in negative G leveling out after the rapid ascent. This negatively loads the blades and they actually are no longer supporting the helicopter. As a result, the become "loose" at the teeter-totter main rotor head joint and since the blades are not holding anything up, the can wiggle loosely unloaded so they become unstable and want to make the helicopter roll to the right or left--depending on the direction that the rotors were designed to rotate and when the pilot makes the correction--the unloaded blade can tilt suddenly to its maximum tilt angle capacity and the loose rotor head can then crash into the main blade mast and sever it--causing the entire rotor to come off and disintegrate after cutting off the tail boom. Robinson R44 helicopters are notorious death traps for this exact reason. This problem was discovered in UH1 helicopters soon after their introduction and widespread use during the Viet Nam War. Best thing to do when in negative G on the main rotors is to "reload them" before making any corrections to the roll axis. Just let the helicopter settle in its unintended roll after a steep climb like that in whichever direction it wants to roll until the the rotors are again loading to the point where they again become "stiff" again at the tilt joint of the main rotor head.

Ah yes another fling wing death trap. Ft. Rucker AL Jul-Oct 1963 - Basic maintenance course.

*Fortunate son intensifies* that sound at about 3:49, thats the sound that struck fear into the NVA and Vietcong

@nahshuagriffin4022

5 жыл бұрын

Mi-28 Havoc i dont know if you saw this or not but, I LOVE the mi 28 havoc

Takeoff @ 3:30

Apache's father.

*Vietnamese flashbacks*

Old hunter tank hero gold medals vietnam wars

hmm! army still flies cobras

@SDsc0rch

5 жыл бұрын

@@FirstDagger - ah! rgr that - thx for that

Full or self serve gas station? Must have stopped for a plate of fries and gravy.

@texasbeast239

3 жыл бұрын

The $100 burger. Or $10000 burger!

uggh.. what's with the aft cyclic there on Crank up.. don't want to mast bump..

@francisconti9085

2 жыл бұрын

YOU SAW THAT TOO!! EXCESSIVE AFT BEFORE LIFTOFF, RELAXED, THEN @ LIFTOFF! I saw the dynamic stop/cushion block on mast, still.. Get her light, stabilize, take second step to stable hover, or as pilot wound up shaking off, just get her light, stabilized, pull a little power relaxing the cyclic..should get ya 40-45kts attitude, push a little through the ETL ..sweet feeling.. I got to fly one, one clean bird..but can't see skids, & so high up.. felt weird.."nosebleed height landing"🤯 They served well, as our soldiers rode them hard..amazing machines! Amazing folks who designed, maintained, and fought riding these war horses..🇺🇸

See we gave them nothing

Chug

Sponsored by Shell 😂(look carefully behind the helicopter)

Privately owned?

@cup_and_cone

6 жыл бұрын

Belongs to Army Aviation Heritage Foundation. They offer rides for a handsome sum.

@candlstudios

6 жыл бұрын

It has United States Army painted on the side.. so I don't think the Marines would have anything to do with it.

@BLACKMONGOOSE13

6 жыл бұрын

Ha! The USMC flies the SuperCobra.

@SupesMe

5 жыл бұрын

Yeah the USMC never flew the S or F models.

@SupesMe

5 жыл бұрын

Thanks

hälskupteri start up and fly away.....

Why is that all you people are yelling!!!!

🕋✋🤓

Kurdish Horror Story

gaint salomi cutting blades, lol!

this aint it cheif that aint a cobra its a super cobra you can tell by the gun

@NorthForkFisherman

3 жыл бұрын

Sorry man, it's an AH-1S (Or an AH-1F depending on who's talking. I go with the former). A Super Cobra is a twin-engine build used by the Marines Worked on many, many of these while I was in the US Army. Camp Page in the ROK 309th AHB 1987-1991.

@johnsanders7012

3 жыл бұрын

@@NorthForkFisherman I was AIT at Ft Eustis in 83 and spent the rest of my time at FT Ord California as a 67 Yankee. Loved my cobras. That was what we called the modernized cobra. Never worked on those. The cobras I worked had 7.62 Gatlin gun and a 40mm grenade launch and they had rounded canopies. I am now a rotorcraft pilot and fly Gyro-Copters.

צפו בפנים שלי ובפני המסוק האלה ופני מסוק בל ופני הנחש ודמיינו

@texasbeast239

3 жыл бұрын

What he said!

Now let us strafe the camera crew

This is fake i didn't hear fortunate son when the engines started.

Can't find more BS? Try KZread, it's all there.

It's a pos

No need to move that club car it’s fiberglass roof won’t just fly off

Awesome