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Closeup of the rotor and gearbox of a Sikorsky S-64 Skycrane heavy-lift helicopter.
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Previously:
https://www.homemadetools.net/forum/...955#post164273
https://www.homemadetools.net/forum/...024#post145074
https://www.homemadetools.net/forum/...010#post160551
https://www.homemadetools.net/forum/...731#post159637
https://www.homemadetools.net/forum/...343#post146341
https://www.homemadetools.net/forum/...797#post129117
Someone stayed up really late one night designing that mess...
I used to see these parked on the airfield at Fort Benning after they were brought back from Vietnam. They are heavy-lifting beasts. Today all we have for heavy-lift is the CH-47 Chinooks however, the Army is looking at updating the Skycrane.
The Skycrane is still used around here to install ski lift towers...
Skycranes were used to fight the recent Bighorn Fire that burned nearly 120,000 acres near Tucson.
I live in Canberra, Australia and while you blokes are in winter we contract a couple of sky canes to help combat our summer bush fires.
More parts than a Chinook, that’s for sure, even tho' the fwd and rear rotor systems on a Chinook were almost the same; just rotated opposite
Saw a Skycrane at Can Tho in ‘69. Impressive machine. Could carry “pods”; for instance used for coms, medical units, cargo of all types.
On lifting a load the pilot turned control over to the 3rd crew- member (typically an E6) that sat facing the rear in the back of the pod.
He operated the flight controls to hover over and pick up the load.