Bell 'Huey' UH-1H Iroquois | Curator on the Loose!

Today we're touring the UH-1H HUEY! "How cool is that!?"

Kick off your week with our latest Curator on the Loose video! Let us know in the comments what aircraft you would like to see next...

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Host/Curator: Matthew Burchette
Camera/Editor: Tori Hunt

[captbart]

I’ve a bit over 1000 hours in a Huey. Mine was a D model converted to an H. Love that bird. Huey pilots sit on the right (as in most helicopters) for several reasons. The Army said it was because you could take your hand off of the collective but you never went hands off the cyclic. You could move left hand to cyclic and use right hand on radios or set altimeter or flip switches but if something happened and you needed to adjust power you could be in trouble switching hands around. In the left seat you right hand stays on the cyclic and the left hand is free to roam the cockpit.
Another story is that Igor Sikorsky, being a fixed wing pilot wasn’t comfortable flying from the right when giving instruction to new pilot and so started telling everyone that in Helicopters the pilot in command always flew left seat. Like that story.
Often, when going into an LZ the PIC would fly left seat for better visibility as down wasn’t blocked by the instrument panel. I’m both fixed and rotary rated, love both but my old Huey brought me, and a lot of others, home. For the record, Bell blades could cut down small trees. I know.

[MrDgwphotos]

I used to work with a former army aviator who flew medevac helicopters, and he said that they preferred the Huey over the Blackhawk for Medevac because the Huey was designed for Medevac.

[mikesnider]

The collective raises and lowers the swash plate increasing or decreasing the pitch and consequently the lift of all the rotor blades. The cyclic tilts the swash plate varying pitch as the rotor blades spin allowing the pilot to point the lift from the rotor left, right, forward and backwards moving the ship in the opposite direction.

[brianholmes]

Just browsing and then all of a sudden BAM! It's Matthew! Did not expect him but oh so glad

[johnpanos]

the skids i flew on were stripped of doors and even the small panel in the doorway directly behind pilot/co-pilot. sometimes even the bench seat was removed, just a floor. i was a rto and a gunner with 1/27th inf. 25th div.1970. after a few lifts it was just another day at the office.

[donreid]

I lived about a mile from Camp Drum (now Fort Drum) while growing up. The sound of Hueys going over was an everyday thing. Those big two-blade rotors are definitely distinctive. Sometimes they made the whole house rattle when they flew low!

[ethannoble]

Matthew needs to make a video on the concorde!

[MikeKoss]

Loving this series. Thanks for keeping us educated and entertained during Stay Home Stay Safe.

[АндрейШмырев-хн]

Отличное видео! Вертолет тоже в неплохом сохране....Так держать!!

[Charles-fnqy]

Awesome, please keep doing it and feel free to make them even longer - love to hear more stories and details! One thing though, could you please wear a lapel mic - hard to hear at time, especially when you turn your head... THANKS!!!

[paulsilva]

Pilot, copilot, FLIGHT ENGINEER, and a door gunner.. My boss was an Aircraft crew chief/ engineer...

[pjny]

My dad (Viet 68-69) would talk in reverence about the Hueys all the time.

[LuisRamos-ouzb]

Awsome, yet he did not explain why in a helicopter the Pilot in Command sits on the right. He introduced the question on how the PIC sits on the right then went on how Sikorsky developed the control and the R4.

[nicholasstilley]

Saw a chicken plate vest a few months back, kinda licking myself for not grabbing it then 😂

[Kumarkartikey]

What happened to Wing over Rockies... He left that museum??

[ironseabeelost]

The few times that we were in Huey's there wasn't any seats.

[fynnjackson]

the sounds a bit weird, love matts tours of aircraft's. should tour an f-102/6

[KateRVN]

Thanks for an interesting video. You guys could really do with a better microphone....perhaps a levallier lapel mic. Difficult to hear what was being said over music.

[a-hvlogs]

What are you doing in my neck of the woods!