How does a Military Helicopter work? (Pave Hawk)

Thanks to Air Force pilots "Floppy" and "Stew" for their help in creating this video.

This video has been dubbed in over 20 languages, you can change the audio track language in the Settings menu (click the gear icon in the lower right hand corner of the video).

⌚Timestamps:
00:00-Intro
02:20-Main Parts
02:43-Fueling
04:21-Up front details
05:05-Inside the Cockpit
05:51-Mounted Guns
06:41-FRIES Bar and Hoist
07:29-Chaff and Flare
08:12-Engines
09:42-Main Rotors
11:37-Swashplate Assembly
12:57-Gyroscopic Precession
13:40-Flight Controls
15:42-Folding Up
16:29-Retirement
16:48-Ground News
17:44-Watch more animations

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🌐Sources:

UH-60 Black Hawk Pilot's Flight Operating Instructions

Learning to Fly Helicopters by R. Randal Padfield

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🟠This animation was made with Blender 3.0 (Cycles Render)

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📼Video Summary:
The Pave Hawk is a modified Black Hawk helicopter owned and operated by the United States Air Force. It's meant for combat search and rescue. It usually has a crew of 4: pilot, co-pilot, and 2 Special Missions Aviators. Main parts of the helicopter include rotors, fuselage, cockpit, cabin, tail, stabilator, and the tail rotors at the very end. Refueling the helicopter can done in the air by using the re-fueling probe on the front right side. The there are two guns on the side - it's called a GAU 2 Mini gun. The helicopter is powered by two Turboshaft Engines and the Auxiliary Power Unit (APU). Moving the helicopter is done with the controls inside of the helicopter: the Collective, the Cyclic and the Tail Rotor pedals. The Pave can also be folded up and fit inside of a larger plane for transportation.
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[TheDucatiPilot]

As a former Black Hawk pilot, I can say you were spot on with this video. I will definitely send this to friends and family to show/explain it's capabilities and how awesome it was to fly them!

[cryzzn]

Can we all take a moment to appreciate the efforts this dude made to come up with the graphics? Respect!!!

[roteschwert]

I can't imagine the amount of complicated work that went into making this film. Flipping through complex specification manuals, sitting through countless YouTube videos, modeling & animating the intricate parts & coming up with the script must be a very difficult job. Props to you for this great video Jared

[Kevsadone]

In the current YouTube climate filled with reaction videos, fake sensationalism, and mediocrity, it is so cool to see someone putting out such high quality, unique content. Congrats on a great channel.

[jayadams]

As an aircraft mechanic working for the united states military, I can say that your videos and animations are a great way to teach a lay man what military helicopters are all about.

[oreosandwich]

Being an engineer, this is like heaven for me.
I can binge watch these videos all night.
Well illustrated and explained.
AWESOME!!

[selfdestructbutton]

Helicopters are so fascinating and cool...I feel like they're kind of underrated honestly

[QuantikoOfficial]

As a former black hawk propeller, I can confirm this is how we work. Great video.

[randomchannel]

Military copters are really cool I'm glad you made this, maybe next you can make a Military jet one?


Imagine thanking people for the like count, couldn't be me..

[madmotobg]

Hands down to your work Jared. High quality stuff

[philkipnis]

Let me add my congratulations to the excellent quality of the animation and your attention to details. Like all your other productions, this one doesn't disappoint. Thank you for your wonderful work.

[BranchEducation]

As always, this is some amazing modelling and animation, and I know so much more about how a helicopter is controlled. You should do a UAV / Military Predator Drone. I've always wondered why they have that weird hump-shaped head.

[MrSorbias]

It always amazed me how fast you're able to produce such high quality.

[dragonazalea]

You are doing a splendid job, sir. My 4 year old recognized your video and voice immediately and said, "I love this guy! He shows us how to learn things." ☺️. Thank you for all you do for my very much engineering-minded preschooler.

[craig]

My girlfriend's Dad was a helicopter pilot so I fond this video quite interesting.
A great production!
After watching this, I feel like I cold just jump in and fly one.
Then reality strikes and I picture the ... well, you know LOL
Thanks for a great video!

[helomech]

As a former Pavehawk mechanic in the Air Force and an assembler on the PaveHawk assembly line for Sikorsky Aircraft after the Air Force in the 1990's, I would say that you did a spectacular job! Well researched and the animation was spot on! Great job.

[AnytingOnTopGrrr]

This guy is too fucking amazing and talented, amazing how someone can make such high quality and informative videos on a regular basis.

[mudman]

Excellent video. But I need to give you a correction on one item…

The radar warning receiver on the helicopter doesn’t tell you if you’re being picked up by the enemy’s radar. There’s no such system for that, as it’s impossible to actually know what the enemy’s radar is seeing at any given moment. What it does do however, is to intercept and identify other ships, aircraft, missiles, or land based radar signals. By being able to identify the type and make of intercepted radars, it displays that information to the operator. As the operator (called the Sensor Operator or “SO” for short), you then know what the radar’s functions are for, as there’s different types of radars are designed to do completely different functions. Those functions include surface search, air search, guidance, and targeting. Just because you pick up the enemy’s radar doesn’t mean that he can also see you. That’s because radar signals travel out from their transmit antennas to much greater distances than the radar itself is capable of seeing. That’s because that transmitted radar signal also has to bounce off a target and make it’s way back to the receiver of the radar system. At a certain point, that signal becomes too small for it to make the trip out AND BACK again. So with a warning radar receiver, you can spot your enemy long before his radar can actually sot you. That’s also why the radar detector in your car picks up police radars before they can get you, giving you time to slow down before the speed radar determines how fast you’re going. There’s your first lesson on the Electronic Support Measures (ESM) part of the field of Electronic Warfare.

I served in the United States Navy as an Electronic Warfare Technician for 20 years. As such, radar warning receivers is part of my field of expertise. When I served in the Navy, my first ship was an FFG. We had a different variant of the SH-60 as well. Our was called the SH-60 Seahawk, also referred to as the LAMPS MK III. I worked in direct conjunction with the SO on the helicopter. When working with the SO, with who I communicated with from the ship during combined operations, I was capable of seeing his radar warning receiver’s intercepts on my ship’s radar warning receiver’s console through a datalink between the ship and the helicopter. My position was called the Electronic Support Measures Operator, or “ESMO” for short. The SH-60 helicopter has been a terrific system for the United States military. In the Navy, it replaced the SH-2 helicopter, which wasn’t nearly as capable, as well as being a much smaller aircraft. I’ve flown on both. The SH-60 was light years ahead of the SH-2. HOWEVER, the SH-60 is now coming close to it’s operational life, as it’s finally slated to be replaced with a much more advanced helicopter system, as the SH-60 has been in service for more than 40 years. It may have been expensive, but we definitely got our money’s worth out of them.

[Somnathhalder]

A few months ago I had a minor surgery in my right arm, they gave me local anesthesia and told me not to look, they were operating on my right arm and with my left hand I was holding my phone and watching this Great Work Jared Owen

[BlenderTimer]

"we're going to learn about a Black Hawk"
Proceeds to show how a jet engine works, aerial refueling, gyroscopic precession, and how nearly all helicopters work.
Love your work man!