2 blade Huey
 

Are there many still flying? Just watching a movie set in the near future, and the hero is in a 2 blade Huey. I thought they had been upgraded, retired or replaced with the black hawk. Or is it just Hollywood that has a lot of them lying around. Its the best sounding Helo around, and that's from a plank wing!

For a wee while yet we still have some:

RNZAF - Aircraft - UH-1H Iroquois

I think the AAC may have one or two. I'm sure one gave me a lift on Salisbury Plain a wee while ago.

Saw a B model (99% sure) take off from RAAF Richmond this morning. Civ reg on contract to the RFS I assume.

There is one on the display circuit in UK.

BN ... Correct :ok:

Huey Helicopter UK - Bell Huey UH-1H 72-21509 - UK Huey Helicopter Experience

The USMC still operates the UH-1N but it is being replaced with the much improved UH-1Y which will now all be new build rather than UH-1N conversations. The USMC operates composite sqns of AH-1Z and UH-1Y and there is a high commonality of major components between the 2 types.

Bell UH-1Y Venom - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

2-Bladed Hueys
 

The USAF is still adding them to its inventory, in the form of former USMC frames.

One definitely flew over the Uffington White Horse a couple of weeks ago. It was white and looked like a 212, rather than a single engined model.

I think RAFO (nee SOAF) still use a few AB 205As (kind of a hybrid with a D-model-ish frame and a T53-L13-B engine) for training.

Last OSD for them I heard was 2015 - but that may be out of date.

Magic machines!!!
 

7 Flight Army Air Corps - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

I think so?

25 Flt and 671 AAC.

Whatever happened to that white one we 'acquired' from the Argies when Stanley was liberated?!

Well, your initial question is a little broad. There are still lots of twin blade hueys all over the globe, although their use in front line miltary service has declined substantially. There are still plenty in military service, government service and civil service, and as movie aircraft and we will see them for some time.

Availabiltiy and cost are a major factor for movie/tv production, and it is much easier to obtain a twin blade huey for a hollwood production- that is likely why you saw it in the movie your saw. Getting a blackhawk or other modern military helicopter would require cooperation from the military branch. The military is often reluctant to support movie/tv productions unless there is high level political support, and even then the movie will have to meet very high censoring standards and be politically correct. I can think of several movies where hueys have been used, but a real operation would have used blackhawks, chinooks, Ch-46's, Ch-53's, cobras, or appropriate British, French equivalents, etc. Again, hueys can be found around the globe, rented for the production, painted to look like the airforce of your desired production, and be recognized by the general public as a troop transport helo.

Aviation enthusiasts/pursits hate such use, but the popcorn eating movie public could care less (all helo's look the same don't they?) And to many people a huey is "the" helicopter.

And over time the poor old airframe driver gets used to the vertical bounce a two bladed rotor gives. Mind you if also using early generation infra red goggles the driver will notice some damn peculiar effects! :eek:

Errr.. a Huey with more than two blades is not really a Huey:ok:.

From the capital PNW Huey country, Olympia WA where you can hear the real Huey sound every day.

I'll probably draw some fire for this, but I'd go further and say a twin engined version isn't a Huey either!

Better tell Bell to remove the word "Huey" on the pedals of the 412 then. :p I know what you mean though.

And all those UH-1Ns (Twin Huey) of the USMC, USN, & USAF from 1970 to current.