Why This Helicopter Carries Radioactive Blades at All Times



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Chapters:
0:00 Why the CH-53 is so unique
0:52 The first CH-53 could roll and loop
2:19 Blade Inspection System (BIS): How cracks are identified on CH-53’s main rotor blades
2:41 The CH-53 is like the iPhone
3:28 The Engine Air Particle Separator (EAPS): How the CH-53s breath in dust
5:52 Fly a helicopter in War Thunder
7:08 In-flight Blade Inspection System (IBIS): Why the CH-53 carries radioactive materials
9:14 The Hell Hole: How the CH-53 gets more action than Bonnie Blue
10:09 Why the CH-53E Super Stallion got a 3rd engine
11:13 Why the CH-53E Super Stallion has a canted tail rotor
12:34 How to increase lift on a helicopter: Why the CH-53E Super Stallion got a 7th blade
15:05 The CH-53K King Stallion’s fly-by-wire system
16:03 How the CH-53K can carry more than its predecessor
17:42 Why helicopters can typically lift more external load than internal load

Music:
Leave It to the Professionals – Arthur Benson
Concealed Room – Marten Moses
Truce No More – Dream Cave
B Positive – Jules Gaia
Aural Imprints – Frank Jonsson
Tiger Beat – Tigerblood Jewel
Torpedo – Tigerblood Jewel
Machine Dreams – Oh the City
Theme for Empty Stage – Luella Gren
Pretty Carolina (Instrumental Version) – Jontha Links
Yhello – Lofive
No Stone Unturned – Brendon Moeller
Flightmode – Chris Shards
Thyone – Ben Elson
Torpedo – Tigerblood Jewel

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43 Comments

  1. 5:07 when i was 5 i almost died my airway closed up i became hypoxic i was in a coma for almost 2 months and they said they almost had to trake me because my airway was so small apparently half the width of a coffee straw they told my mom i remember the extreme fear of not being able to breath

  2. I adore the jokes… ever since the channel was super niche and small there were always "some" jokes here and there… but seeing that after years of content, it sounds almost like a conversation between bros… it makes me so happy!
    Hell yeah… bigger loads on the outside something-something 😂

  3. Your videos are excellent and accurate. Something rare on youtube. I was onboard flight test engineer on the CH-53E and found no mistakes with your video and actually learned something new (external vs internal load). Also love the Bonnie Blue references, who ever that is : ) Keep up the good work.

  4. I liked the HH-3F Pelican cameo in the beginning! All my former shipmates refer to the 60 as "Big Iron". I tell them to stand next to a 53 and they will never call it that again! They (CH-53's) are massive beyond comprehension.

  5. I worked on this helicopter and flew in it many many times plus transported two of them across the Atlantic to Sicily. I was in the black stallions CH-53E. Change rollerblades in the desert and flu many many flights from Sicily to Hugo Egypt and to buy rain and to Turkey and to most of Europe. And in Africa. Only Blue on a ship one time and to do DOQ‘s and the captain of the boat and the air boss only had one question can your aircraft bold its blades and just to be safe we’re gonna give you the deck for a day to do all your DLQs so you can get off my ship. From 1990-1993 US Naval Aviation

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