Training operations being conducted by United States Coast Guard HH-52A Seaguard (Search and Rescue helicopter) in the United States. A USCG HH-52 demonstrates a full autorotation to the water, lands on water, shuts down the rotor head (with the rotor brake, and engine at flight idle), helicopter rotates 90 degrees (due to the torque on the rotor blades), and then release the rotor brake and water taxis. It moves over the water surface. Boat in water in the background. The helicopter maneuvers for a while close to the shore. Several people watch from rocks on the shore. Finally, the HH-52 leans forward and flies away.
U.s. Coast Guard crew members run from their hangar to their HH-52 Search and Rescue helicopter, parked on a pier. They don personal equipment and board the helicopter which then takes off. View from the cockpit as the chopper heads toward orange smoke from a flare in the waters close to shore. It lands, close to a man, in the water. View from inside the HH-52 as the rescue crew performs a platform pickup. A crew member deploys a steel grate platform and assists the man onto the platform, from the water.The crew member then folds the platform into the helicopter, which takes off and flies away.
Rescue operations being practiced by United States Cost Guard HH-52 Seaguard (Search and Rescue helicopter) in the United States. Pilot in cockpit of a USCG HH-52 Seaguard. Red distress flare being used to signal by man in sea. Helicopter lowers a basket into which the man climbs. The helicopter hoists the basket and brings the man on board. The helicopter flies above water. A 40 foot Coast Guard Utility boat is seen in the water.
Search and rescue training operations being conducted by United States Coast Guard (USCG) HH-52 Seaguard (Search and Rescue helicopter) in the United States. A Coast Guard 40-foot utility boat underway in water close to shore, accompanied by a USCG HH-52 Seaguard flying close above the boat. Riprap stones line shore in foreground. The helicopter turns and circles away, returning to fly low over the 40-foot utility boat. It then pulls up in a climb. It circles and returns, slowly tracking over the boat, and lowers a man on a hoist to the boat. Next scene shows the utility boat underway at high speed with the helicopter above until it pulls away and circles down close to the camera. Its side door is open and Coastguardsmen can be seen inside.
Rescue operations being conducted by United States Cost Guard HH-52 Seaguard (Search and Rescue helicopter) in the United States. A USCG HH-52 Seaguard flies low above a sea shore. Pilot in cockpit of the helicopter. The helicopter lands on an airstrip. Other USGC HH-52 helicopters in the background.
Landscapes and monuments in Gloucester, Massachusetts. Views of beach and landscape. A large tower and a man stands on the tower. Official shed at harbor. A fishing boat is anchored. Sign: 'Jean and Patricia' and 'Mary and Julia' on fishing boats. Boats underway. Views of city and traffic on Main Street in Gloucester Massachusetts. A man walks down on road. Employees walking out of Harbor Cove Fisheries packaging plant. People walking outside of stores and shops in town. Pedestrians walking. Cars and trucks moving on South Stacy Boulevard. View of the Man at the Wheel, Fisherman's Memorial Cenotaph. View of memorials and grave stones in a town cemetery of Gloucester.
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