Sorry flightmedic1, your link is to the wrong thread - it's page 102 of
'ROTORHEADS AROUND THE WORLD' : Photo Gallery
Nice pics, by the way.
I remember flying into Mt Hagen I think it was, up in PNG one time in a Baron, and a Mi-26 was on the tarmac. It dwarfed the other aircraft on the ground and the sheds they called a "terminal" - it looked almost surreal, such a huge machine, fuselage the size of a 737 (bigger?) with rotors on top just makes you want to walk around it in awe and wonder. The tail rotor of 7.61m diameter is not much smaller than the main rotor of a 206 at 10.16m.
When a Mi-26 came in to Goroka, they hover taxi'd instead of rolling, and blew at least one roof off the old shanty houses opposite the Air Niugini terminal.
Here's another picture of that Chinook sling job:
Couple more Mi-26 on the page this came from:
http://www.chinook-helicopter.com/ne...hinooks_3.html