Sunday, January 11, 2026

Your Sunday Morning Rotor Noise

CH-53E (sorry about the airshow narration, those guys never shut up)



The "K" model is in production. Unit cost is somewhere north of $100 million.

4 comments:

  1. Imagine, if you will, hooking logs to the stripped down civilian version of that, the S61, and the further stripped down S64 Skycrane for fifteen (15) years

    More fun than flying ...

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  2. Big, noisy (inside and out), powerful (the downdraft damned near drowned us), and it truly beats the air into submission! :-)

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  3. Every once in a great while, one of those beasts flies over my A.O. Those rotors disrupt a lot of air!

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  4. I was at a naval research facility (one of the few blue-suit representatives) and they told me that someone wanted to fly a CH-53 in and they were going to mark out a 50'x50' square for it to land. I said "that's no Huey, do you know how big it is" and suggested 150' on a side.

    They ended up flying in a UH-1.

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