View Full Version : Mil Mi-26 uk appearance
poiuyt 11
3rd Dec 2014, 22:16
Hi, does anyone have any details/info if we can expect this machine in the uk anytime soon?
treadigraph
4th Dec 2014, 07:17
Didn't one appear at Farnborough some years ago? Along with their little jobbie, the Mi-34 was it?
DaveReidUK
4th Dec 2014, 08:49
Didn't one appear at Farnborough some years ago?There have been Mi-26s at a couple of Farnborough shows.
1984:
http://www.abpic.co.uk/images/images/1289740M.jpg
1992:
http://www.abpic.co.uk/images/images/1253269M.jpg
poiuyt 11
4th Dec 2014, 09:34
Yeah it seems to be a while since one has been over, never seen one in the flesh & would like to just see how much of a monster it actually is.
Wycombe
4th Dec 2014, 11:57
Similar in size to a C130 would about describe it.
bobward
5th Dec 2014, 15:08
One also went to the Helicopter International show at Redhill on 20 Sep 1989.
CCCP06917 turned up, with several other machines including Hip H CCCP95043,along with a Hind E, Havoc, and Helix. Quite a day out!
What really impressed me was being able to walk inside the Halo. Imagine a C130 fuselage with a rotor to get the effect! This was in the days when the Rusians were first starting to visit UK shows, so their novelty value was quite a draw.
HEATHROW DIRECTOR
5th Dec 2014, 16:19
Remember the Mil-10 at Gatwick? The Russians sure turn out some interesting helicopters.
Doobry Firkin
10th Dec 2014, 13:04
Had one in UN colours fly into Akrotiri when i was over there. Having spent years on herc's i can confirm it's a herc with rotorbades instead of props.
Rtaher large for a rotary but it seems to do the job
treadigraph
11th Dec 2014, 07:03
Remember the Mil-10 at Gatwick?
No, but I certainly wish I'd known and managed to see it!
I think the only Russian helicopter I ever saw prior to Glastnost was a Polish-built Mil-2 that ADS operated for a short while in the late 1970s.
The Mil V-12 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mil_V-12) was astonishing, I'd like to have seen that flying as well...