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Originally Posted by flipper35
I think I posted this early on but I can't be bothered to check! 
I don't think Paul/Seahawk is old enough to be the pilot. |
YCH-53A first flight was on October 14, 1964. The picture above is at the Sikorsky Factory. I was seven
The video was also taken at the factory. Sikorsky Test Pilot and a Marine TP...pretty famous flight. You can see a Coast Guard H-3 in the background.
I was the chief government pilot at the factory for three years and it was incredible. I also flew at their West Palm Beach flight test facility.
I have been upside down in a helicopter, a Lynx Helicopter during an exchange flight. The key is the design of the rotor head, of which there are many. I would bore you guys to death discussing the different designs. I was very lucky: I have stick time in over ten distinct helicopter designs and most variants of the H-60.
BTW, I have about 100 hours in the CH-53E, which is huge and has a third engine: It is like, as the saying goes, flying your house from the bathroom.