Sikorsky S-64 doing a hoisting job in Chicago, three years ago.
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I've hooked logs to that boat. Power poles, ski towers, one air conditioner on a jobsite not unlike this one. Got a picture of it pullin' a turn hanging in the water closet.
ReplyDeletePictures don't do it justice, that boat is a hundred and eight feet long, sixty at the wheels; you can drive a full-sized truck under it. Legally lift twenty thousand pounds (I've given her more, but we're not supposed to talk about that). Picture this: you've just hiked out to the volcano in light barely enough to see your boots with this morning's mushrooms just pushing over last night's cocaine and rock 'n rye and that thing pops up out of nowhere all preying mantis looking "OK boys and girls let's have some fun!"
God I miss that shit.
Impressive machine indeed, 10B. I understand it has a secondary pilot position back-to-back with the command pilot so the copilot can maneuver it with the load in front of him.
ReplyDeleteHaving watched several jobs like that, I have come to believe the pilots can see the wind...
ReplyDeleteThe precision with which they place their cargo is incredible.
Look what I found ... !
ReplyDeleteI've ridden that backseat, though only as a passenger. It's wild and crazy, man, the bubble, the glass goes under your feet, so you're literally flying backwards with visually nothing but the airframe and the harness between you and out there. I suppose it's like skydiving but I've only made one jump and they had to push me. Mostly that gets used when there's a winch operation, that is in fact by Army design: a winch operator. I never worked with one, every pilot I ever worked with put that hook right in my hand.
Except for that lightning storm with Siller Brothers, but that's different.
Thanks for the video Comrade. One of those flew over town last spring empty, following US RT.44 heading east towards RI.
ReplyDeleteI've seen Erickson's helos around the Midwest. I believe they're out of Washington state. That must have been an interesting job TB
ReplyDeleteInteresting birds. Knew one of the pilots years ago when Evergreen still had them. He'd flown all over the US with one. Said 'backing in' was NOT his favorite maneuver, especially with a heavy load. Said they were modular, and field replacement of major parts could be accomplished!
ReplyDeleteErickson is based in PDX and has the type cert and manufacturing rights for the S-64.
ReplyDeleteColumbia Helicopter, just down the road in Aurora, operates Boeing Vertol 107 and 234 dual rotor types (and they own THOSE type certs), so this little corner of the Upper Left Coast owns vertical lift.