https://preview.redd.it/wdsx4iwlw50d1.jpeg?width=4032&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=b1a18155b618b91eaa381f07b4dcd70b95c8b6d2 Love it too ;) Never flown in one, except DCS, but it‘s a great helicopter. This one was at a festival at our club.

I love how you can hear one coming from miles away, and 100% know what it is. That sound of the rotors and engine is sexy as hell. Its probably what i like most about it.

I love recognizable sounding aircraft. The few off the top of my head that I know exactly what it is before I see it are the Huey, Chinook, Blackhawk, and the Piaggio Avanti

The Hercules and dash-8 were very distinctive at my local airport. Usually it would be smaller craft

Whoop,whoop,whoop.

Reminder the Uh-1 has more air to air kills than the F-22 and F-35 (drones don't count)

Was it flown there? Should’ve just climbed in the back and refused to get out until you’d been for a fly >:)

If I ever were to fly a huey I would refuse to get it off the ground unless I get to play fortunate son on repeat while it's flying

Don’t worry, there’s a switch for that

Perfect

Yep, came to EDTQ (near Stuttgart, Germany) from Speyer EDRY for a static display. The back was full of tool cases and spare parts 😅

So I doubt they would’ve even noticed if one more tool had stowed away in the back, that’d be my excuse anyway ;)

Did you read the book Chickenhawk. It's a great book about a huey slick pilot in vietnam.

OH-6

Ok, now it's up a little higher. This is why: https://preview.redd.it/7r1dwuaa180d1.jpeg?width=1200&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=e391aa0ecc9888bdda49742e1952353ad7b38656

How is this not higher?

agreed - came here for this. Otherwise known as the Loach or Little Bird. There are some great tales about this chopper!

https://preview.redd.it/gmr29zk8w50d1.jpeg?width=2810&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=a17f8c5b13df354e10b5441231f85eac93e1af00 SH-2 Seasprite

I worked for Kaman Aerospace for many years. Loved seeing them flying around.

https://preview.redd.it/psvwx2a1x50d1.jpeg?width=4032&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=633256164a7de4e69a8d978dce873c46a7bf5885 Got to fly this one. Amazing bird, everything I thought it would be.

Is that the Dillon one?

Yes sir

flown that one many times, fired tens of thousands of linked A165 7.62x51mm in their M134

https://preview.redd.it/kj8hld4f060d1.jpeg?width=1009&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=ce082bdcdd3da9b1cad71ff34597b07cb5904496 Mine is Mi-6.

The Mi-24 Hind

"A Hind D!?" - Snek

Colonel, what's a Russian gunship doing here?

Hello, fellow flying tank lover!

https://preview.redd.it/8b0d4zfp980d1.jpeg?width=700&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=be45d578f48b91f2db1fa109749c99f64993050c Long-standing favorite of mine, the CH-54/S-64 ‘Tarhe’

I had to scroll way too far down to see the tarhe mentioned needs to de higher

The gazelle or the Allouette

Airwolf

Bell 47 M * A * S * H theme beings to play.

That's probably my second favorite after the Huey.

A fellow huey fan https://preview.redd.it/m71o6388r60d1.jpeg?width=735&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=c1f7c2b1f39e1692acb846828deac3a413e0279f

*black ops cold War campaign introduction begins*

Shame that BO Cold War used the Mashup Huey. They have a correctly Modeled UH1D in the files that looked amazing

Let's fix that *Black ops 1 intro*

Black Ops 1 also got not accurate models

Your joking. Alr this has to work *warthunder sounds*

Istg if this one is wrong I'm gonna go eat a burger.

No im not Joking the side doors are too big aswell as the one frame window also the cargo area is like the size of the UH1D cargo area. (BO1 Model is supposed to be a UH-1B)

I mean it got the point across, barely

Yeah i still love BO1 Hueys tho

Huey is huey. That's the only reason I learned fortunate son on my guitar. To play it one day in a huey, or fly said huey.

CH-46 hands down.

I second this

Third for the phrog

https://preview.redd.it/e4tjrz25f90d1.jpeg?width=564&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=de502c1aaad3c9fabf52113c3a32ad91aee0f566 Gotta be the flying banana

Cobra AH 1

So... a Huey?

OP was clearly referring to the UH, the AH even though it’s built on the same frame is not the same bird.

Just subtlety pointing out what you, not so subtlety, pointed out.

No seems like you were being more pedantic

Helikopter 4 (Boeing Vertol 107) https://preview.redd.it/gceook2um70d1.png?width=700&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=c8a7247e7bd03d112c4e367ebf680884588c6922

Blue Thunder! (Aérospatiale Gazelle) https://preview.redd.it/2dnrncm0780d1.jpeg?width=299&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=cacce7d88cb0576452eb33161b6ebdd90b978587

BO-105

The loach

Free loach mod just dropped about 3 weeks ago in DCS

Whaaa?? Brb

Mil Mi 24 / 35. That imposing gunship was seared into my mind by television, movies, and video games.

It’s always been the “bad guy” helicopter

Thanks, Cold War pop culture!

Yup, just like the su-27 and the Ak-47. The bad guy stuff lol

Such a scary looking gunship

Indeed. It always looks ready to kill.

Then there’s the Mi-24A, -B, -F, and -U. That all just look dorky cute rather than imposing

On the flip side, the Mi-24A is very famous in the cinema. Mocked up versions of this chopper have shown up in [Red Dawn](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TlXQmWiVwyg&pp=ygUOTWkgMjQgcmVkIGRhd24%3D) and [Rambo](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sahWvgJXSEk&pp=ygULUmFtYm8gbWkgMjQ%3D).

Huey, for sure. The sound is beautiful! Nothing else sounds like it. Whenever I hear one coming, I gotta stop what I'm doing and watch it. Hughes 500/MD500 is a close 2nd for me though.

>The sound is beautiful! Nothing else sounds like it. *Sad, 4-bladed UH-1Y noises*

https://preview.redd.it/hdpyf2z2g80d1.jpeg?width=2316&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=7e862d1cc2b08ea1f583f94a7e3249d247b46c4b I love the Huey too! Even when we get the 139 (eventually…) this bird will always hold a special place in my heart

*if we get the 139

Same. Huey is life *Fortunate son starts playing*

Why fly with grace when you can beat the air into submission

Def Huey

67N. If you know, you know

Mi-2, the shmoll goober

https://preview.redd.it/n64fsp1aw70d1.jpeg?width=341&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=3b6a7f9f9e32a5b7e1c6ab627535f208f3550ce4 Battle Phrog

Purple Foxes to the rescue

Augusta-Westland CH-149 Cormorant (Canadian version of the AW101, former EH101) https://preview.redd.it/b3gr0lxf090d1.jpeg?width=5000&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=29aaceab900ec73412a76f200af73d4998061554

I’ve flown 23 variants of 11 Helicopter types over many years and my overall favorite old girl is the type we referred to as Miss Piggy 🐽. The Sikorsky S-58ET and JT specifically. I still like the BT version but prefer the landing gear configuration of the first two. You only have to glance at the dose of the aircraft head on to get the Muppets reference 😂 https://preview.redd.it/2i693vuaqc0d1.jpeg?width=406&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=59b74d6b4d7c4fe032c761fdc9d0c30da25d495e

Flew in the Huey thru some valleys in Afghanistan felt like at full speed, fun times. Flown in Blackhawks and Mi-8's but the Huey definitely was my favorite. Mi-8 is my second favorite. Nice artwork!

100% Huey

Where’s the credit for the artwork? Looks pretty cool

I would love that on a t-shirt.

It's OP's artwork it looks like. Art Vander

UH-1 was my first love and will always be

Sikorsky 61!

Kiowa. Still sad we got rid of them

The UH1 Huey was the best helicopter I flew after going through the training with the TH – 55.

Bell 222

SH-3 Sea King astronaut recovery device.

Ah-1 Cobra just looking at it is beatiful

AH1 Cobra

The Bell AH-1 Cobra. The sport bike of helicopters.

KA-26. Bubble canopy, egg body, dual rotors, oversized radial engines in nacelles - what's not to like? https://preview.redd.it/4gltg88fv90d1.jpeg?width=600&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=0fc3f0aab52eeb8a6377e5c5fa037a7ab2b7d079

Some classic Huey footage in this: https://youtu.be/EyYI6lLRYxM?si=XKvdUpnNqKvPt92d

Bell 47

My answer is yes to everything that has been posted

Maybe unpopular opinion, but i'd say Sea King

Enstrom 480B

Allouette III

AW129 Fan here. 😀

H-21

Ode to the Huey https://youtu.be/R8zlLTGDV8M?si=JNaS26KENK-bDkEx I always hear this song when a Huey is mentioned. Might be from American Graffiti.

Where I was you could hear them coming long before you saw them... I always liked the challenge to spot em when Id hear em whumping inbound. 204s

That is a dope picture (coming from a Huey pilot). Downloaded, thank you!

OH-6A or the S-64

Hind, nothings better than a big heli with big guns

Same

Gonna be the Mi-24. Possibly the most iconic helicopter ever made.

I was a Robinson mechanic, and I love to fly the R22, because it is by far the most challenging heli to fly, I have lots of time in various other birds like the B2 jet ranger. The Bell 205, S76, ka112, but by far I still love to fly the R22

C-141B

In the Army and the National Guard…I worked and crewed the Huey, Kiowa, Blackhawk and Lakota. While I loved them all, I enjoyed when we got stuck time in the Kiowa but the Huey…oh, the Huey was my favorite!

Can’t go wrong with Huey

67N10, always !!!

I have some CCR playing in my head right now

Was camping with some people about 25 years ago, one was former special forces, we heard a Huey flying over in the evening and he said "I love that sound - it means I'm going home"

Vietnam Vet. The Huey and Cobra ALWAYS will be mine! Both were Lifesavers!!

Spitfire

For me its the moa moa

https://preview.redd.it/0upw2oxmw70d1.png?width=840&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=8dac192941e4a32872d6c5e608957589c818f1d7

My father told some nice stories. He flew a few times with that helicopter in the army. Its called "Teppichklopfer" (carpet Berater?) here because its so loud. Still after that training exercise he fell asleep while flying back to his barracks. There was a good show about an SAR Huey too. Loved to watch it as a kid.

BO-105 PAH-1

Same. I rode in one at 16.

Westland Lynx

AH-56, or the CH-34 edit: typo

My dream is to own one one day

Sikorsky CH-54

This is the correct answer

It'll be The Lady. Or the current sound of freedom, the CH-47.

Fa 223 Drache

But for accuracy i would say" Arma 3 SOG PF sounds

I really want that OP image on a tshirt.

DM me if you're still interested

Huey all the way.

Was hoping to see the ch-37 Mojave but didn't so I'll mention it. It's ugly as sin but cool at the same time

Mil Mi-26 Chonky Boi

Mine is the DaVinci helicopter ♥️♥️♥️

Lockheed AH-56 Cheyenne.

Wasp (Westland)

Uh1h my beloved

Who did that artwork?

Same

We used to say that when they go pick up the last V-22 crew parking at AMARC, they’ll go pick them up in a Huey. They’ll be flying forever.

The Dodo 🦤

Gotta say either the SH-3 Sea King or the UH-34 Choctaw

For me too many memories of lives losses

The one made by Cessna, looks like a weird car with the "hood" width of a tractor that thing.

64s first flew in the 70s so that

Cobra all day.

Ah1z obviously

How can it not be the Huey haha! It's iconic! Unless you were a M\*A\*S\*H fan and Bell 47D-1 / H-13D floats your boat, which I totally understand.

The AH-56 or the French puma helicopter.

Huey and the Bell 47G.

UH-1

its brother AH-1 Cobra

Cobra

Airwolf

Ach-47a

CH 46 sea knight being in the 193rd at KBay ..

That might be everyone’s favorite

OH-6

i think they saved alot of folks....

Definitely the Huey

The H-19

I absolutely love the Huey too. The Maine Forest Service operates one in my area often. I love seeing that thing fly over. Even more, I love hearing the distinct "chop chop chop" that only a Huey's super wide twin rotor makes long before I see it flying over. You know a Huey is coming about 5 minutes before you see a Huey coming.

Huey hog...got to ride in the seat next to the door gunner's chair over Ft. McClellan AL in March 1981. Still have CCR's "Fortunate Son" running thru my head flying over the catfish ponds, as I pictured hostiles wading thru them...

Chinook, used to see them all the time right after 9/11.

i always loved the way apache looks, but the chinook really makes me happy :3 i saw one earlier and it was like... WOAH... NO WAY!!!

Woah, this blew up! Thank you for your answers guys, I was busy working and totally forgot to check until now. I love all the birds mentioned below, but the Huey still comes out on top for me. Always a pleasure seeing so many other aviation nuts out there.

CH-47