I can’t remember what one sounds like, but I think Border Patrol just flew over my house in one. Usually we hear the Coast Guard Dolphin which sounds quite unique too.

This one sounded almost like someone gargling.

I think so...our National Guard will be doing their Thursday training flights shortly...and they take a sweet path over our place.

If you've heard a Huey , then anything else does not feel like safety.
Blackhawks are a little flatter on the thump.

Yes. They are loud. Really loud, deep and powerful. But fairly smooth due to 4 bladed rotor and 4 bladed tail rotor. If you are used to hearing "regular" police, news and med-evac helicopters, a 60 will sound like the second coming of Christ.

Once you have heard it fly over close you will never forget it.

I say yes. A few years back I was awakened to a powerful thrumming noise. Just a few hundred feet away was a pair of 'hawks hovering over the sloughway. I kept seeing them all over town for about a week afterwards, flying in and around SFO.

We used to call theUSCG dolphin “whistling shitcan”


Yeah the Blackhawk/Jayhawk has its own sound. They fly over Temple day and night because of ft hood

It is one of those weird things how different helicopters sound from the inside vs on the ground.
The inside has that high pitch whine of transmission/turbine, it is hard to hear the blades.

We do have Chinooks fly over fairly often. I think they’re my favorite as far as copter sounds.

One thing that I think is different about the 60 is that I don’t hear them from miles away, like you can with the UH-1

Yeah the Hueys have a distinct sound amd the Blackhawks not aas much. I have flown on both and the Huey seems like you are flying in a beer can and feels like one when it's gusty out. The Blackhawks seem much more stable and are. The Blackhawks give you more of a confident feeling glying them than the "Wop Wop" of the Hueys.

ALL HELO’s make a distinct sound unto themselves. Blackhawks absolutely make a distinct sound and can be heard some distance off.

I was thinking old model Ruger Blackhawks and the three clicks. Yes they do.

We had some Hueys fly over the Air Force Academy this week. My brain noticed a difference from the usual blackhawks, but I didn't really notice they were Hueys until I actually saw them. They don't come by often, so I wasn't very familiar with them.

The various choppers I've heard do have distinct sounds, and I imagine it wouldn't take one long to make the differences obvious. We have occasional flyovers by Blackhawks, Chinooks, Apaches, and Ospreys (VTOLS). Some even make occasional scheduled landings in the Academy Cadet area (I could actually go out and talk to the aircrew and drool over the M2s. . .). Now, the Ospreys REALLY sound different.

My first Army assignment was with the 101st at Fort Campbell. After a year or so, I had taught my wife to distinguish between Hueys, Kiowas, Blackhawks and Chinooks. Apaches weren't there just yet.

I am directly under the flight path of the ANG and we get Blackhawks and those Osprey things beating our windows out several times a week headed up to Dahlonega.

Yes they are very distinctive. I hear and see them just about every day coming in and out of DM

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Originally posted by ArtieS:
Yes. They are loud. Really loud, deep and powerful. But fairly smooth due to 4 bladed rotor and 4 bladed tail rotor. If you are used to hearing "regular" police, news and med-evac helicopters, a 60 will sound like the second coming of Christ.

The H-60 is a pussycat, You should be on deck when a H-53 is landing

I worked on 60's for 25 years, they do have an unique sound

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Originally posted by Mars_Attacks:
I am directly under the flight path of the ANG and we get Blackhawks and those Osprey things beating our windows out several times a week headed up to Dahlonega.

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